Japan
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Tomorrow's Rainbow: 86-year old Japanese nun writes cell phone novel
Novels and poetry written, bought and read on cell phones are nothing unusual in mobile phone-crazy Japan. Now it came to light that Jakucho Setouchi, a 86-year old Buddhist nun has written a …
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Daily Portal Z: Social learning platform iKnow! cooperates with nifty
Tokyo-based social learning platform iKnow! and Japanese telecommunications and web powerhouse nifty (most famous in the web space for its portal of the same name) are cooperating. The companies have …
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Dwango releases 61 minute-ringtone, wants to be listed in the Guiness book of records
Dwango, the Tokyo-based company behind Japan’s uber video portal Nico Nico Douga and the ringtone for dogs, has officially filed an application to get listed in the Guiness Book of Records. …
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CiFTR - a work shift management software
CiFTR (JP) (pronounced as shifter) is a software to manage a complicated work shift of part time employees. In Japanese restaurant industry, most waiting staffs are part-time workers with a …
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Golf Digest Online Suspended Its Service due to Malicious Attacks
Golf Digest Online (GDO in short) suspended the entire service because they found malicous attacks and the website tampered. GDO is a subsidiary of a golf magazine publisher, and one of Japan’s …
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Web2.0 Expo Tokyo 2008 turned down by Tim O'Reilly's absense
Web2.0 Expo Tokyo 2008, planned on Dec. 3rd and 4th, cancellation is announced by its organizer CMP Technology Japan. On the conference top page [J], now it is explained that the event was cancelled …
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au BOX: KDDI, Motorola and Opera intro new multimedia terminal in Japan
Yesterday KDDI, one of Japan’s many telecommunications powerhouses, held a press conference in Tokyo to present the so-called “au BOX” to the general public for the first time. …
