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“Google Is Nothing Special” Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy

An interview to the president of Yahoo! Japan Masahiro Inoue (photo) by Nikkei Business Magazine with a catchy title “Google? I think none of their services are cool.” is getting huge attentions in Japanese web. To answer the interviewer’s comment “By comparing Google’s services such like Street View and Book Search, Yahoo! seems not to… Continue reading “Google Is Nothing Special” Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy

Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon’s company which manages and sells cloud computing services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, etc., is turned out to open its Japanese subsidiary Amazon Data Services Japan at unknown time in 2009, talked by one of their two employees at Japan Amazon EC2 Users Group, a blog Publickey reported [J]. At… Continue reading Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan

Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System

As we reported last month, Japanese government announced their new website to collect people’s voice. However, it turned out that they had thought that they would be able to take “.com” domain AFTER their announcement. Of course they could not. All possible domains both in Roman alphabets and Japanese (international domain name) were quickly occupied.… Continue reading Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System

Men’s Fingers-Fixed Glove To Avoid False Charge On Train Molestation

Toshio Shimoyama, a Japanese inventor living in Nagasaki, developed a new glove named “Otoko no Guu Tebukuro”(Men’s Clenched Glove), which has all five fingers totally plated [J]. For what? With this glove, you can not grope on girls or dipping your hands into girls’ cloths so you can assure that you are not the accused… Continue reading Men’s Fingers-Fixed Glove To Avoid False Charge On Train Molestation

Susan Boyle To Sing On Japan’s Most Popular Year End Program

According to Asahi Shimbun [J], NHK, nation’s public broadcasting organization, announced that this year’s most Internet-buzzed singer Susan Boyle will appear in Kohaku Utagassen [J], Japan’s most popular TV program which once 80% of Japanese, still 40% watches on new year’s eve [J]. photo by Deborah Wilbanks from Wikipedia [Update 2010-01-01] NHK put the recorded… Continue reading Susan Boyle To Sing On Japan’s Most Popular Year End Program

Glad To Hear That iPhone Is No.1 In Japan Again And Again

iPhone’s “Big success in Japan” is on hype in English websphere, again. My comment for that is “Google Translate sucks”, at least for this kind of research. What does “No.1 smartphone” mean in Japan? In Japan, “smartphone” is a cellphone category which does not support common Japanese cellphone features, especially accessibility to three major carriers’… Continue reading Glad To Hear That iPhone Is No.1 In Japan Again And Again

A New Software Only To Bounce Brests (Or Whatever) On Image

Gazou-wo-purupuru-ni-suru-soft (A software to make image puddingy) is a tentative tool developed in C++ language by a Nico Nico Douga user YNW. You see how it works here, (you may turn off Japanese comments by the bottom-right button) [Niconico Douga] I’ve made a software to shake static image ver 2.00(tentative) # I cannot watch the… Continue reading A New Software Only To Bounce Brests (Or Whatever) On Image

You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets

Well, who the hell marks 100,000 favorite on Twitter anyway? Japanese! There are several reports and complaints that heavy Twitter-favorite users were suddenly unable to log in, mark favorite, tweet, etc. According to a popular and influencial Japanese web watcher @katoyuu, who also suffered this problem, listed up Japanese twitter users who had troubles referring… Continue reading You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets