2012-06
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Japan's Web News Week 25
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Naver LINE Launches Brand Accounts With …
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Android Market Allowing Ponta Points Opens This Summer
Nihon Enterprise, [J] in partnership with Royality Marketing, who run the community point program Ponta, [J] has announced that from this summer they will launch the Android contents service “Ponta …
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Dentsu's Android Lottery App For Internship Seat
Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising agency released a new Android app for wannabe students, Lucky Senkou(=selection). The app has only a single feature, to let students draw a lottery for the …
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Yahoo! Japan's Hosting Company First Server Suffering Massive Down - Possible Data Lost?
First Server, a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, has been having service troubles since around 17:30 June 20. There are several web services observed to be down, who explained on temporary error pages that …
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"Be My Princess for GREE" To Be Released In North America
Voltage [J] has announced that they will launch the romance game “Be My Princess for GREE” for distribution in the North American market as a web application for Android and iOS on the GREE Platform. …
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NHK News Explains What Japanese Web Jargon "JS" Means
Japan’s public TV channel NHK explained at its morning news what “JS” on the online forum means. NHK introduced this “JS” [J] as a new trend word listed by International …
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Yahoo! Japan Allies With CCC(Tsutaya), Japan's Blockbuster
Yahoo! Japan, the nation’s largest web service, and Culture Convenience Club(CCC), who runs video rental chain store Tsutaya and the center of the reward point network T-point, announced their …
