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NTT DoCoMo To Start Cellphone Banking Service, While KDDI Runs A Year Ahead
NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank are reportedly planning to launch a micro payment banking service using cellphone handsets. By using the bank agent system that permits non-financial companies to deal with …
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Time Trip on Tokyo Decade
Lat Long Lab is an experimental services showcase by Yahoo! Japan’s map division (Alps-sha before Yahoo’s bought). Their new service Tokyo decade shows you two maps of the same point in …
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We waited so long: Hot-girl-gadget Bijin Dokei gets an iPhone app
My personal favorite web concept of 2009, the Bijin Dokei (Hot Girl Clock) gadget, which I was happy to introduce in March, gets an iPhone app (App store link). Finally. The clever people from PHIRIA …
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Make Your Blog Catchier With Yellow Paper's Know-How
Kayac[J], a funny web app developer based in Tokyo’s suburb, and Tokyo Sports[J] (a.k.a. Toh-spo), a daily sports newspaper company, jointly introduced a blodget[J] on Wednesday, which may make …
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Joker Racer - "Truly-Remote" Control Car Over The Internet
A team of Joker Racer, a project by Tokyo-based Jokerworks Corp. to make remote control cars (and possibly real cars) controlled over the internet to provide virtual-but-real driving experience by …
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Virtual consolation service confirms you're cool, a real man and loved
I have never heard of a site like this before and have massive doubts about every single aspect of it. But Japanese media claim that Homerare Salon, launched in December last year, is a huge success. …
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Giant Partnership of Game and Ad Sets Off New Wave Of Video Broadcast
Coincidentally I write up several stories featuring video services using media other than terrestrial TV broadcast system in this Japan’s serial holidays season. Nintendo and the world’s …
