Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Google Translate Tricked Cubs Fans Unintentionally
Former Chunichi Dragon’s baseball player Kosuke Fukudome made an inpressive debut at Major League Baseball opening game at Chicago. Strange thing is, many fans at the ballpark were raising …
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research: 40% of Japanese blogs are spam
Nifty Laboratory, a marketing research section of Nifty, which owns one of the biggest ISP in Japan @nifty, also provides big blog hosting service Cocolog, announced its new splog(spam blog) filtering …
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Cherry Blossom Frenzy hits mobile CGM
Weathernews Inc., the world largest private weather service company headquatered in Japan, is conducting the 5th year “Sakura Project (Cherry-blossom project)” with involving over 17,000 …
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Drecom rescued by Rakuten
Drecom announced that their board had decided business alliance with, and will raise 900 million yen shares to Rakuten, Japan’s top E-Commerce firm. Drecom, which is a blog system vendor for …
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"www" has another meaning in Japanese Web
When browsing Japanese websites, especially user-generated ones like BBS, you may see a lot of “w” letter at the end of lines on Japanese text. Such like, “Blablabla www” Do …
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2D barcode tombstone
Ishinokoe (means “voice of stone”) K.K. announced their newly designed tombstone series “Kuyou no mado” (“commemoration windows”), which has QR Code (Japanese 2D …
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Anti-virus vendor Trendmicro website got hacked
Trendmicro Japan announced that some of their website pages are found to be modified from March 9th to 12th. Those hacked pages had a virus by which visitors could have got on their PC. Their …
