Japan
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NTT pumps $470 million into cloud computing by 2012
It seems Japan is getting more serious as far as cloud computing adoption is concerned. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, better known as NTT, is planning to invest about $470 million into cloud …
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NTT DoCoMo To Start Cellphone Banking Service, While KDDI Runs A Year Ahead
NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank are reportedly planning to launch a micro payment banking service using cellphone handsets. By using the bank agent system that permits non-financial companies to deal with …
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Japan's No.1 TV web portal acTVila tops 1 million subscribers
It took 28 months, but now it has happened. Japan’s answer of sorts to American video platform Hulu, a content-on-demand service called acTVila, has racked up one million subscribers [JP, PDF]. …
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Make Tokyo Meeting 03: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
Last weekend at Hachioji Campus of Digital Hollywood University in Tokyo’s surburb, “Make” magazine’s readers and gadget inventors came together and held an annual meeting …
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Time Trip on Tokyo Decade
Lat Long Lab is an experimental services showcase by Yahoo! Japan’s map division (Alps-sha before Yahoo’s bought). Their new service Tokyo decade shows you two maps of the same point in …
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Kenko.com and Wellnet Sues Japanese Government around Drug e-Commerce Ban
Today, two online pharmacy stores Kenko.com and Wellnet had a press conference to announce that they had filed a lawsuit against Japanese government. They claims that the ban of online and postal …
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Make Your Blog Catchier With Yellow Paper's Know-How
Kayac[J], a funny web app developer based in Tokyo’s suburb, and Tokyo Sports[J] (a.k.a. Toh-spo), a daily sports newspaper company, jointly introduced a blodget[J] on Wednesday, which may make …
