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Japanese Social Network Wars: GREE Overtakes Mobage-town, Is Now Japan's No. 2
Mobile social gaming platform GREE’s CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka repeatedly said in the last weeks he wants every Japanese to use GREE eventually (yeah, right). He also said he wants to beat direct …
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IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow
Researchers at IBM Research - Tokyo is working on a way to easily arrange the reading flow of screen readers and mobile devices. With the visual editor technology they are developing, webmasters can …
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Yahoo! Japan To Shut Down Email Newsletter Service
Whilst US Yahoo! dumps their free web hosting service Geocities with huge number of pages painfully, semi-independent and more successful sibling Yahoo! Japan also decides and announces their a bit …
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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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Sunshine Ranch: More Than 2M Japanese Users Join China-made Flash Game In 2 Months
Mainland China’s 2nd largest social game maker Rekoo[C] launched a flash-based social game on Japan’s largest social network service Mixi[J], which earned more than two million users in …
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Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
You might have heard about that Gmail and iPhone has added Japan originated emoticon, Emoji, set. You may know that Google has been promoting those “letters” into Unicode standard. Filing …
