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CNET Japan Holds Its Annual Tech Innovation Awards Contest
On Friday, CNET Networks Japan[J] held this year’s award ceremony of its annual innovation contest called TechVenture 2009[J] in Omotesando, in association with Tokyo-based seven tech-oriented …
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NTT DoCoMo Halted Brand-New BlackBerry Sales, While Sankei Keeps Distributing Its 1st Newspaper App For The Phone
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo started selling the brand-new smartphone BlackBerry Bold (BBB) from Research In Motion(RIM) recently, but the operator halted[J] sales after only a …
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Run Virtually In Tokyo If You Lost The Draw To Attend The Real Marathon
This year’s Tokyo Marathon is scheduled to be held on March 22nd and marks its 3rd anniversary. The expected number of participating runners continues to increase every year. More than 250,000 …
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Yahoo Japan Diggs Deeper Underground, While Google Covers More Narrow Streets Nationwide
Yahoo Japan[J] is planning to release its new underground mapping service on Thursday, which shows the details of underground shopping malls in 49 locations nationwide. Yahoo Japan’s map …
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Two Osaka Start-ups Bring Crime Prevention Apps To iPhone And Android Handsets
On Wednesday, Osaka-based start-up and iPhone developer Feedtailor[J] introduced a new iPhone app (clicking this link will launch iTunes), which allows you to see a map of street crimes in Osaka for …
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New $20 Car Navi iPhone App Heading To Top Of Paid List
ZENRIN DataCom’s[J] new application is a valiant push toward a genuine GPS car navigation system for the iPhone 3G. It’s currently sitting at No. 4 on the App Store’s Top Paid list …
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Three Major Japanese Newspapers Collectively Introduce iPhone/iPod App
The three major Japanese newspaper companies in the Nikkei-Asahi-Yomiuri Internet Business Partnership introduced their free iPhone/iPod app on Wednesday, enabling news stories from these papers to …
