Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Yahoo! Japan's Hosting Company First Server Suffering Massive Down - Possible Data Lost?
First Server, a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan, has been having service troubles since around 17:30 June 20. There are several web services observed to be down, who explained on temporary error pages that …
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NHK News Explains What Japanese Web Jargon "JS" Means
Japan’s public TV channel NHK explained at its morning news what “JS” on the online forum means. NHK introduced this “JS” [J] as a new trend word listed by International …
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Yahoo! Japan Allies With CCC(Tsutaya), Japan's Blockbuster
Yahoo! Japan, the nation’s largest web service, and Culture Convenience Club(CCC), who runs video rental chain store Tsutaya and the center of the reward point network T-point, announced their …
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LinkedIn Chairman-Rakuten CEO Talk Livestreamed Soon
LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman is visiting Tokyo to promote his book “The Start-up of You” Japanese version (“Staato Appu!”). Ustream announced [J] that they are to broadcast …
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Japan's Web News Week 24
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Mixi CEO Interview By Nikkei British …
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Twitter-buzzed Cat iPhone Jack Accessory Gets A Naughty Parody
Last month, we reported the useless cat accessory for iPhone being commoditized backed by Japanese Twitter users buzzing. The product seems to be at the final stage of development. …
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Is Facebook Japan's No.1 Social Networks?
No, not yet. Italian social media consultant Vincenzo Cosenza updated world map of social networks, and on this June 2012 version, Japan is painted in Facebook color. I just refer my past articles. …
