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NHK Launches Reproduction-Free Internet Video Library
Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK launched an online video library[J] on Saturday. It consists of several thousands of video and sound clips collected from the broadcaster’s program archives, …
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Mixi Launches Social App Service For Cellphone Users
Japan’s largest social networking website Mixi[J] launched a social app service for cellphone users called “Mixi Appli Mobile” on Tuesday. The app service’s PC edition called …
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Buddhist Sutra Chanting Distribution On Cellphone
Ryoho-ji Temple [J], located at west suburb of Tokyo, is known on the web as its “Moe"-based proselytization. This time the chief priest Nakazato, a person of ideas, introduced new mobile …
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Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone
Following to one of the Big 3 social networking service Mixi’s clone Mixi Voice, which made Evan Williams “unpleasant”, another successful, probably now most vital among three, …
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140Trans: Now It's So Easy To Tweet In Unfamiliar Languages
Tokyo-based start-up Anydoor started a translation service using Twitter on Tuesday. It’s named 140 Trans. When you post a tweet having attributes of an original language and a target language …
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Book Retailing Now Starts Digital Street Solicitation
On Monday, Kyoto-based catalog and mail-order clothing retail giant Nissen[J] launched a new promotion business using a digital signage display in partnership with the country’s second largest …
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Enabling Speech-To-Text YouTube Videos Enhances Business Potential
On Wednesday, Tokyo-based tech start-up in media rep service and speech recognition technology development Catalog just released the closed alpha version of the brand new service that enables …
