Japan
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Report: Smartphones Account For 50% Of Current Handset Sales in Japan
Goodbye, Galakei feature phones: according to Tokyo-based market research firm BCN (published in The Nikkei today), smartphones accounted for 49.8% of the total number of handsets sold between …
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Kinect + Head Mount Display = Virtual Reality (And Hatsune Miku, As Always)
Although Xbox360 is not so popular here in Japan, some Japanese seem to love and hack Kinect. After the first interesting one to connect Kinect with virtual 3D figure dance authoring free tool Miku …
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World Sound Mix - Feel The World By Sound/Noise
The World Sound Mix By 43d is “a web based sound mixing engine that generates a location based Ambient sound from varied sounds from all over the world” (from their website). The sounds …
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Physical iPhone/Android Test Robot From US$70,000
Quality Commander [J] from Japan novel Corporation [J] is a gadget test automation robot which combines an industrial robot with camera and software. A blog S-max reported [J] their demo at Embedded …
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Nanapi, User-Generated Lifehacks Sharing Service Raises $3.8 Millon
Nanapi [J], a web service to share hacks posted by users, had acquired 3.8 million US dollars from Globis Capital Partners in Tokyo. Nanapi is a service to share life hacks, called as life recipes in …
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Google Translate Adds "Listen" Japanese
According to the official blog, Google Translate has added a text-to-speech functionality for three new language, Arabic, Korean and Japanese. It is helpful for you to check how Japanese brands are …
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Gree Opens English Corporate Site - How About Others?
Gree has launched its company site in English today. It is a recent trend for big three social networking services to show their interest in international market. All of Gree, Mobage-Town and Mixi …
