Japan
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Index Corp. Helps Foreign Social Game Developers Enter Japan
Mixi, GREE, Mobage-town - Japan’s top three social networking services have either already opened or decided to open their platforms to third-party developers in the last few months. And a …
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Got Compulsory Seizure Of 3,600 USD
On March 10th, Tokyo District Court broke into a flat of ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie, a fallen IT entrepreneur star whose arrest caused so-called “Livedoor Shock” in 2006, distrain upon …
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Naver Japan Starts Another Microblogging Service "Pick"
Naver Japan, a bridgehead of Korean search giant Naver, who is challenging Japanese market second time since 2009, released their new (Tumblr-like) multimedia clipping microblog “Pick” …
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CyberAgent Exports Social Avatar Community To English, Ameba Pico
As pre-announced last November, CyberAgent Inc., a Japanese big web media/advertising company, launched their popular social avatar community, constructed on Flash technology, Ameba Pigu’s …
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Cellphone Checks If Employees Goofing Off
KDDI R&D Laboratory, a subsidiary of Japan’s No.2 phone company KDDI Corporation, developed a technology to know cellphone holder’s actions remotely, by using data from acceleration …
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February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 2)
Latter half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (Part 1) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Keeping Household Accounts By Taking Receipt With …
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20.5% Of Japanese Owns 2 Or More Cellphones
On an article “Half Of Japanese Male iPhone Users Keep Their Japanese Cellphone” comments I got a good question from @seanohagan, It would be interesting to see how this number compares to …
