Japan
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Applications from Japanese companies welcome for Techcrunch 50
Over 700 web and web-related companies from all over world handed in an application for last year’s Techcrunch 40 event, organized by the famous Tech blog of the same name. This year, the …
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Japanese national TV network expands to Youtube
Japanese copyright holders in the music, TV and movie industry are known to be very protective of their contents when it comes to distribution on the web. Youtube has been “cleaned” …
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Japanese government plans to restrict mobile web access for children
We covered political initiatives in Japan to censor the web a few times on Asiajin in the past. In a new move announced today, the Japanese government urges parents and schools to tightly control how …
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NTT Docomo provides high-speed cellularphone-web at home
NTT Docomo announced that they will start a new internet connection service “Home U” in June, which enables WiFi web access from cellularphone at home. With the latest cellphone type …
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iPong on multiple iPod Touch devices
Ryo Shimizu, CEO of Ubiquitous Entertainment Inc. (also active as a blogger under the handle name “shi3z”), introduced iPong, his researcher buddy Mr. Kondo’s toy application for the …
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Report: JUI (Javascript User Interface) 2008 conference in Tokyo
On Monday, the first JUI (Javascript User Interface) conference was held at RECRUIT’s gigantic headquarters in Ginza, Tokyo. Although there was hardly any time to promote the quickly scheduled …
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YAPC::Asia financial report
Hiroyuki Oyama gave a talk on YAPC::Asia financial report (in JP). I’d like to show the numbers and key factors in this article to help who try to organise a big event. YAPC::Asia handles 500+ …
