Akky Akimoto

Articles by Akky Akimoto

• Ning-like "My Own Social Network" Service So-net SNS Gives Up Their Business

  

  2010-02-14 · By Akky Akimoto FC2 FC2 SNS Nanoty Ning OpenPNE People SNS So-net So-net SNS Social Park

  So-net SNS, one of the largest free hosting of user generated social networking services in Japan, announced [J] their termination of service in June. # SNS stands for “Social Networking …

• Japan's 13 Major Radio Station To Start Simulcast On The Web

  

  2010-02-12 · By Akky Akimoto internet radio radio simulcast

  Nikkei Business online reported [J] that major radio stations in greater Tokyo and Osaka area gathered to open a new website which offers the same programs as their broadcasting. They are 6 from …

• January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)

  2010-02-10 · By Akky Akimoto Android augumented reality Cyber Agent Daily Sports Dentsu Digital Garage Docomo Facebook font Google Google Japan Gree Haiti Hakuhodo Harlequin Novels Hatsune Miku Innovation Interactive iPad iPod Japan Kakaku.com KDDI Mekiki METI MIAC Mixi Mobage Town News Nifty Nintendo DS proxy Sekai Camera shinkansen Softbank Sony Thanko Tonchi Dot Transcosmos Twitter University of Tokyo Walkman Yoshikazu Tanaka

  News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. METI Lottery In Exchange For Used …

• Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer

  

  2010-02-09 · By Akky Akimoto BowLingual dog Ig Nobel Prize Index Corporation iPhone Twitter

  Real time speech translation is the hot topic in last few days because of Google’s speech-to-speech translation development news and our reported Japanese government experiment. However, …

• First Arrest by Perfect Dark, the Latest P2P Client

  

  2010-02-08 · By Akky Akimoto arrest copyright law P2P Perfect Dark Share Winny

  Different language, different application. That is not an exclusive phenomenon for web services like Facebook against Japanese big 3. The most popular P2P file sharing software on Japanese web is not …

• Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan

  

  2010-02-07 · By Akky Akimoto audio machine translation scouter translation voice

  NICT(National Institute of Information and Communication Technology)’s Master Project, which stands for “Multi-lingual Advanced Speech and Text reseARch Project” are running an …

• Twitter Featuring Reality TV Show Begins In Japan

  

  2010-02-06 · By Akky Akimoto Denpa Shonen reality tv TV Twitter

  Japan’s legendary reality television show comes back with heavy usage of Twitter. Denpa Shonen 2010 (Denpa Shonen = Radio-Wave Boy), a successor program of the Susume Denpa Shonen, which started …