Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV
NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden developed a prototype [J] of remote control which is powered by the movement of user’s button-push actions. User actions produce electrical energy, and …
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News In Manga Style - Two Manga-News Sites Show Up
Two manga-style news are launching within a month in Japan. Manga no Shimbun Manga no Shimbun(Manga Newspaper) is a website offers news in Japanese comic style, launched October 15th 2009 by KaBa Net …
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User-made Twitter Client On Sony TV Bravia
Tvitter [J] is a Twitter client widget for Sony LCD Television Bravia. Some of latest versions of Bravia support AppliCast platform, on which user can program their own original widgets. Bravia user …
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Mixi Top Page Showing Really Strange Ad
Japan’s largest social networking service Mixi is showing KDDI au(No. 2 cellphone carrier)’s new cellphone mail flat-rate plan commercial on its log-in page to 17 million users. Although …
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Popular Singer Kohmi Hirose Held A Twitter Live Concert
Kohmi Hirose, a Japanese pop singer/song writer, who is also known by her joining Twitter this year, made a Twitter (unofficial) song, one of 31 suggested Japanese Twitter accounts, had the first …
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iPhone 3G Is Still As Popular As 3GS in Japan
BCN’s cellphone sales ranking, which once was used to declare iPhone triumph in Japan, showed interesting status these weeks. Last week, iPhone 3G (8G) sales was ranked at the 3rd, whilst the …
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Facebook To Have The First Oversea Development Base In Tokyo
Facebook, which I think I do not need any explanation what it is to English web users, announced that they would open their Japanese arm in Tokyo early in 2010, ITMedia reports [J]. The branch, which …
