Category: Japan

Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away

Livestar Securities Co., Ltd., a Japanese online brokerage service issued a released to apologize its trouble started around 10 a.m., during trading time on December 27. Livestar Securities web transaction service was completely inaccessible over 4 hours from 10 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. In their announcement, the trouble was caused by an outsourced company removing… Continue reading Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away

Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers

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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 disappeared, the record said that they had spend it on online game service Nexon. There are already over 100 Rakuten users reported to Rakuten that their points were… Continue reading Rakuten’s Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon

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 in the driver’s heartbeat rate and pulse wave sensor, which are built into the driver’s seat, shows seven levels (concentration, relaxation, distraction, fatigue, drowsiness, physical deconditioning, etc.)… Continue reading Anti-Sleep Driver’s Sheet “Sleep Buster” Comes In February, Warn You 10 Minutes Before Falling Asleep

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[J] that Ameba services got illegal access, and some of its users are seeing trouble that they can not log in and look withdrawn the service since December 24 night.… Continue reading Ameba Gets Security Attack – 50,000 Users Unregistered From The Service

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 Asiajin. As it is for newspaper, there are not enough space to show the references. I leave the links here from my writing… Continue reading Follow-up Of The Social Networking Column On The Japan Times

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 on new releases on the Bank’s web site. In addition, the Bank may, when necessary, as in cases of emergency, communicate its messages through these… Continue reading Bank Of Japan Starts Twitter, Can It Stop Too-High Yen By Tweets?

KDDI Releases New AR Brand SATCH, Comes With SDK For Free

KDDI released new AR brand SATCH yesterday, in order to expand AR (Augmented Reality) Market. SATCH is a new brand to expand AR market with KDDI’s new AR technology. SATCH sounds ‘sacchi’ in Japanese, which means ‘detect’, or cover cell phone quickly over the item and check it out. KDDI also made a partnership with Total… Continue reading KDDI Releases New AR Brand SATCH, Comes With SDK For Free