Masaru IKEDA
Articles by Masaru IKEDA
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Major Publishers Co-launch Non-UGC Encyclopedia Site
Asahi Newspaper, the Internet portal company EC Navi[J] and major publishers like Kodansha and Shogakukan jointly launched Thursday an online encyclopedia containing 430,000 words, which is called …
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Weather On Desktop: Expert Perspectives, Weather Blogger's Eyes And Idol's Loveliness In One App
The world’s largest meteorological company, Weathernews Inc., will launch next Monday its 24/7 live show channel, with its Adobe AIR-based client application, bringing weather updates to your …
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Amateur Paparazzis Livecast A Pop Star Under Arrest For Indecent Exposure
As you might hear from the news, the Japanese pop star Tsuyoshi Kusanagi（草彅剛, a.k.a. 초난 강 or Chonan Gang in South Korea）, a member of popular group SMAP[J], was arrested Thursday for public indecency …
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Another Way To Have Mobile Broadband, It's Neither WiMax Nor HSDPA
Japan’s only PHS operator Willcom announced today it would start trial of new high-speed mobile data service next week, which is called XGP and enables logically 20Mbps Internet access not only …
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My Time for Sale: Ex-web Designer Girl Exposes Her 24/7 On The Web
Rie Tomimoto(冨本梨恵) is Jibunya 24[J], where she sells her time, does anything her clients ask excluding some exceptions, and blog what she does mostly everyday. She is a 33-year-old ex-web designer, …
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NHK Broadcasts Lunch Time TV Program For Cellphone
1-seg (one-seg) is a mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service in Japan. Usually it airs the same programs simultaneously with the land-based TV channels do. In March, …
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Now eBay Acts To Capture The Flag In The Far East
On Wednesday, eBay announced it had agreed to take over Gmarket, a South Korea’s e-commerce marketplace. The company’s shareholders, Yahoo U.S. and Korea’s Interpark[K] also …
