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Sharp's Pocket-sized netPC: Ten Hour Lifetime Gives You No Fear About Dead Battery
On Thursday, Sharp introduced a brand new pocket-sized netPC terminal named “NetWalker[J]”, which is expected to go on sale in late September for USD460 each (estimated street price). It …
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Mixi Finally Shed 'Beta' With Mixi Appli
Mixi [J] (Asiajin articles), the biggest social network service in Japan, starts their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC. Mixi Appli …
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Virtual Singer Application Vocaloid Played Her First "Live" for 25,000 Fans
One of Japan’s most popular video sharing Nico Nico Douga’s driving force in its early stage, Miku Hatsune, a virtual girl character attached to a PC application Vocaloid performed her …
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Event Wrap-up: 400+ Geeks Applaud Web Innovators At WISH2009
More than 400 Internet users joined the event on Friday evening in Tokyo. Tokyo-based blog marketing agency Agile Media Network (AMN)[J] held Japan’s first conference having a number of tech …
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Live Event: WISH2009 Is Just Ahead
As we reported here on Asiajin last week, Japan’s web industry’s showcase event in mid-summer, WISH2009 will be held in Tokyo today. Live streamcast starts at 7pm J.S.T. or 10am U.T.C. …
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IVP Fund Invests In China's Largest Mobile SNS
Infinity Ventures LLP[J], a Tokyo-based independent venture capital unit investing in tech start-up companies, announced today it had invested approximately USD2.1M (JPY200M) in WAPTX (registered in …
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Unidentified "Floating" Objects Are Introduced In Osaka This Summer
In commemorating the series of water-oriented events which are now underway in Osaka, NTT Facilities, a property management company of NTT Group, developed two solar-powered and UFO-shaped water …
