Japan
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Japan Persists "Packaged" Music, This Time On Memory Card
Avex Marketing, a Japanese music company in Avex Group, released world’s first music/video package sold on microSD memory card. “micro REBOOT Ichi(one)” by a group THE REBOOT is also …
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MCF Announces This Year's Award-Winning Mobile Projects (1/2)
Last Friday, Mobile content forum (MCF)[J], a consortium of many Japanese mobile device developers and mobile app developers, announced this year’s award[J] winning projects, which were chosen …
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Drecom To Quit Job Board Service
Drecom, once was a college-venture star IPO-ed, recently financially helped by Rakuten, announced that they would shut down their job board service “Drecom Job Board” at the end of …
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Japan's Best-known Midnight Radio Program Goes Mobile
Most Japanese, who are younger than 40 years old, would have listened to this program. “Allnight Nippon[J]”, which is aired live every midnight on Nippon Broadcasting System(NBS)[J] and …
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Keitai Shousetsu export: China to get 100 Japanese cell phone novels
A big web trend from Japan that gained traction in China is now poised to become even bigger: Keitai Shousetsu (cell phone novels). These novels, which are not only being read on cell phones but also …
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Startup Showdown: Two Business Contests Announce Finalists
A couple of tech-oriented business contests announced the finalists on Friday. At first, Tokyo-based VC firm ngi Group and online game developer Aeria[J] jointly held the 1st edition of business …
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Japanese P2P Filesharing Network Being Attacked From Cloud
As same as other fields, for point-to-point(P2P) file sharing, there are Japanese counterpart of Kazaa/Limewire/Torrent. Once it was Winny, but after the developer of Winny was prosecuted for making a …
