Akky Akimoto

Articles by Akky Akimoto

• iPad-Fujitsu Trademark Conflict Sounds Familiar In Japan

  

  2010-01-30 · By Akky Akimoto Aiphone Apple Fujitsu iPad iPhone Japanese trademark

  Apple’s “revolutionary” tablet PC iPad name collides with Fujitsu US’s shop clerk gear which exists for 8 years. (Engadget goes deeper) That may remind US people Apple and …

• January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)

  2010-01-29 · By Akky Akimoto AmebaPACO Android AQInteractive ascii art Bijin Tokei cellphone CoroPura Cyber Agent David Meerman Scott Eden of the East Evernote FeliCa Flight System Consulting Focal Computer GMO Payment Gateway i-mode iPad iPhone Japan Just Systems Kenko.com LDP links LinkThink livedoor Love Plus Mixi Motion Portrait MSN Naver News Niconico DVD Nintendo DS Nippon TV NTT Communications NTT Docomo OGC Potechi-no-te Rakuten Sankei Newspaper Taipei TechWave Tsuruaki Yukawa Web-kare Yahoo! Auction Yahoo! Japan YouTube

  Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following @asiajin also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much. Here is …

• Japanese Government Site For Whistle-blower Finally Launches, Still Insists Non Existing ".com"

  

  2010-01-27 · By Akky Akimoto domain informant Japan Japanese Government

  As we reported [1][2], Japanese government opens a website for people to inform wasted tax money or irrational rules issues directly to them. The domain name, after squatted, is …

• Rakuten Allies With Baidu To Promote Their E-commerce Business in Mainland China

  

  2010-01-27 · By Akky Akimoto Baidu China joint venture Rakuten

  Japan’s biggest, and the world second largest e-commerce company Rakuten, which is also known by its active overseas activities in last years as a Japanese originated web company, announced its …

• The Nikkei Newspaper To Begin Paid Online News In March, Multiple Sources Say

  

  2010-01-26 · By Akky Akimoto Business Model newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun Nikkei online newspaper paid service

  Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The Nikkei) [Wikipedia], one of the most influential industrial newspaper in Japan, who had declared its digital version launch plan for this spring on its January 3rd …

• Weekly Diamond Featured Twitter For 40 Pages, Reprinted

  2010-01-25 · By Akky Akimoto magazine Twitter Weekly Diamond

  One of the most read Japanese business magazine (such like Forbes or Businessweek), Shuukan Daiyamondo(Weekly Diamond) January 23th 2010 issue, featured Twitter as a special topic for 40 pages. Both …

• First Japanese Manga On Amazon Kindle Released

  

  2010-01-25 · By Akky Akimoto Amazon Dai Tokyo Toybox Japan Japanese Kindle manga Ume

  Although Amazon Kindle is possible to order from Japan, Kindle and its backend do not support Japanese font well yet. Support for Japanese publishers in Japanese are not prepared, too. So, most …