Japan
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Rakuten's Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon
There have been consumers complaining that their Rakuten Super Point, virtual currency circulated in Japan’s largest online shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba and its affiliated services, had been …
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10 Year Lasting LED Bulb Commercial
Toshiba’s new TV ad for its LED bulb depicts a life of Japanese 10 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaVsA-tr7g thanks @tmiz
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Anti-Sleep Driver's Sheet "Sleep Buster" Comes In February, Warn You 10 Minutes Before Falling Asleep
Tokyo-based Juki Corporation is going to sell an anti-sleep system “Sleep Buster” for driver in 157,500 yen (US$2,000) in February 2012. The product keeps collecting a biological signals …
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Ameba Gets Security Attack - 50,000 Users Unregistered From The Service
Cyber Agent’s Ameba, one of Japan’s largest blogging service with thousands of celebrity blogs and virtual community around Ameba Pigg, announced on its staff blog [J] that Ameba services …
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Follow-up Of The Social Networking Column On The Japan Times
This morning column 2011: The year when Japan went global over social networking on The Japan Times, both on paper and online, Japanese English-language newspaper is a monthly tech column brought by …
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Gree And Microsoft Japan Partneres To Promote Cloud For Gree Developers
Social Game Networking Service Gree and Microsoft Japan announced their partnership around promotion of Microsoft’s cloud environment Windows Azure Platform to Gree’s game developer …
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Bank Of Japan Starts Twitter, Can It Stop Too-High Yen By Tweets?
Bank of Japan, Japan’s central bank, announced [J] its immediate start of Twitter on December 16. Two Twitter account in Japanese and in English started tweeting. These accounts provide updates …
