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Tokyo Taxis Become WiFi-Enabled
In association with NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo Musen[J], an alliance of taxi operators in Tokyo, started today providing in-car WiFi Internet access for free for taxi users on 820 cars travelling within Tokyo …
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Conit Launches Easy-to-manage In-app Purchase Platform For Android App Developers
Tokyo-based tech start-up Conit launched an in-app purchase platform for the Android apps as well as the iPhone/iPad apps on Friday, in association with Japan’s largest ad agency Dentsu. The …
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KDDI And Weathernews Introduce New Style Of Weather Updates For Cellphone
Japan’s second largest cellphone operator KDDI and the world’s largest meteorological company Weathernews jointly announced that they had launched a new weather update service by using …
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Play Tag, Sharing Tweets Among Train Passengers - Keio Students Unveil Unique Social Apps At Their Showcase Event
Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), known as a technology hub for Japan’s Internet community in academic field, had a two-day event called Open Research Forum 2010[J] last week, where …
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LTE vs. Extention Of Current Techs: Who Brings Us The World's Fastest Mobile Broadband?
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced at their seasonal press conference that it would launch an LTE (long-term evolution) service called Xi[J] (pronounced as …
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Kadokawa To Launch E-Book Distribution Platform; Some Novelists Can't Wait And Launch Their Own
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing[J] and its subsidiaries, which are known for having published many comic titles and magazines, announced on Friday that they would launch an e-book distribution platform …
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Mixi Unveils SocialPhone For Softbank's Androids
Mixi, one of Japan’s biggest social networking services, which is the most similar with Facebook among three, announced their new smartphone application plan with the third largest cellphone …
