Japan
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Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
You might have heard about that Gmail and iPhone has added Japan originated emoticon, Emoji, set. You may know that Google has been promoting those “letters” into Unicode standard. Filing …
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Quadlingual Midnight Weather Show Broadcasts Live Images Of Orionids
On the 24-hour Internet video broadcast channel brought to you by the world’s largest meteorological information service company Weathernews, a quadlingual weather news show was launched this …
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Photo Speak: Let Your Favorite Portrait Speak And Blink
Motion Portrait, a tech spin-out of Sony Computer Science Laboratories(CSL) and now a subsidiary of So-Net Entertainment, introduced an iPhone app that allows you to animate your favorite picture and …
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140Trans: Now It's So Easy To Tweet In Unfamiliar Languages
Tokyo-based start-up Anydoor started a translation service using Twitter on Tuesday. It’s named 140 Trans. When you post a tweet having attributes of an original language and a target language …
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Good Ideas Salon Tokyo: Explore Perspectives On Pure Living With Japanese Tech
On Tuesday, NYC’s SOHO-headquartered blog network on researching global trends and insights PSFK hosted the first Good Ideas Salon conference in Tokyo. More than 90 people came together to hear …
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Google Puts Big Billboard Ad At Shinkansen Station To Promote Enterprise Use
Google started a promotion campaign that encourages corporate users to switch their BI (business intelligence) tool platform to Google Apps, which is called Go Google[J]. Go Google is the worldwide …
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Book Retailing Now Starts Digital Street Solicitation
On Monday, Kyoto-based catalog and mail-order clothing retail giant Nissen[J] launched a new promotion business using a digital signage display in partnership with the country’s second largest …
