Category: News

Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System

As we reported last month, Japanese government announced their new website to collect people’s voice. However, it turned out that they had thought that they would be able to take “.com” domain AFTER their announcement. Of course they could not. All possible domains both in Roman alphabets and Japanese (international domain name) were quickly occupied.… Continue reading Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System

450 Celebrities & Entertainers Have Blog Passwords Stolen From Ameba

Ameba Blog[J] a.k.a. Ameblo, which is well-known for marking the highest number of serving celebrities’ blogs among Japanese blog platforms, announced that some 450 passwords that allow participating celebrities to update their blogs have been stolen and leaked out.  No suspect has been confirmed so far. On January 1st, an image of a Japanese-style envelope… Continue reading 450 Celebrities & Entertainers Have Blog Passwords Stolen From Ameba

Japan’s Index Corp. To Launch (Apparently Gigantic) Virtual Mall In China

Tokyo-based (and JASDAQ-listed) Index Corp. has decided to shake hands with Chinese retail giant Hualian to launch and run a large virtual shopping mall. Somehow surprisingly, Index, a leading mobile contents provider, will develop the site for China’s fixed web and not the country’s rapidly growing mobile web. The main idea is to offer an… Continue reading Japan’s Index Corp. To Launch (Apparently Gigantic) Virtual Mall In China

Spoofing PM Tweets Cause Confusion, The Cabinet Office To Move Up The Day Of Real Account Launch

A cabinet advisor unveiled recently that Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama would start using Twitter in the beginning of next year to let the people know how the government is working on political issues.   On the Christmas day in prior to his first “REAL” tweet, someone (an ex-theater writer a.k.a. a blogosphere fussbudget) has pretended… Continue reading Spoofing PM Tweets Cause Confusion, The Cabinet Office To Move Up The Day Of Real Account Launch

You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets

Well, who the hell marks 100,000 favorite on Twitter anyway? Japanese! There are several reports and complaints that heavy Twitter-favorite users were suddenly unable to log in, mark favorite, tweet, etc. According to a popular and influencial Japanese web watcher @katoyuu, who also suffered this problem, listed up Japanese twitter users who had troubles referring… Continue reading You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets

China’s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up

Beijing-based serial entrepreneur Nick Yang (杨宁, see this ChineseSavvy.com article for more about him) got his third start-up Wukong Search (唔箜搜索) [C, mobile] go live in Mainland China. In prior to the third start-up, he founded the popular web portal ChinaRen[C] for the younger generation in China, and succeeded to sell it to one of… Continue reading China’s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up

J-Magic CEO Now Joins Mixi

Today, J-Magic[J] CEO Takuya Miyata[J] (@takmiyata[J]) unveiled that he had joined Japan’s largest social network service company Mixi[J] as an employee working with the Mixi business department. As reported here on Asiajin, J-Magic handed over their breed-winning business of the face recognition mobile app to Mobile Factory last month, and they have been said to… Continue reading J-Magic CEO Now Joins Mixi

Chinese Domain Name Authority Closes 699 Accounts In 4 Days; No More Individual Registration

On Monday, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) suspended 699 .cn domain names which seemed to be inappropriately used for porn websites just in four days since they had set up a hot line to receive anonymous reports about the malicious use of domain names. And then, the authority suspended to accept new .cn domain… Continue reading Chinese Domain Name Authority Closes 699 Accounts In 4 Days; No More Individual Registration

Yahoo China Closes Online Photo Album, Users Are Ready To Sue Against It

Yahoo! China[C] shut down its online photo album service last Thursday, and it hit tens of thousands of Chinese people using the service.    The users are blaming and demanding to get their photos back to their hands, Beijing Daily[C] reports. The service was believed to be provided permanently for free, but it was closed… Continue reading Yahoo China Closes Online Photo Album, Users Are Ready To Sue Against It