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NTT DoCoMo To Start Cellphone Banking Service, While KDDI Runs A Year Ahead
NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank are reportedly planning to launch a micro payment banking service using cellphone handsets. By using the bank agent system that permits non-financial companies to deal with …
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Japan's No.1 TV web portal acTVila tops 1 million subscribers
It took 28 months, but now it has happened. Japan’s answer of sorts to American video platform Hulu, a content-on-demand service called acTVila, has racked up one million subscribers [JP, PDF]. …
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Make Tokyo Meeting 03: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
Last weekend at Hachioji Campus of Digital Hollywood University in Tokyo’s surburb, “Make” magazine’s readers and gadget inventors came together and held an annual meeting …
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Time Trip on Tokyo Decade
Lat Long Lab is an experimental services showcase by Yahoo! Japan’s map division (Alps-sha before Yahoo’s bought). Their new service Tokyo decade shows you two maps of the same point in …
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Kenko.com and Wellnet Sues Japanese Government around Drug e-Commerce Ban
Today, two online pharmacy stores Kenko.com and Wellnet had a press conference to announce that they had filed a lawsuit against Japanese government. They claims that the ban of online and postal …
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We waited so long: Hot-girl-gadget Bijin Dokei gets an iPhone app
My personal favorite web concept of 2009, the Bijin Dokei (Hot Girl Clock) gadget, which I was happy to introduce in March, gets an iPhone app (App store link). Finally. The clever people from PHIRIA …
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Make Your Blog Catchier With Yellow Paper's Know-How
Kayac[J], a funny web app developer based in Tokyo’s suburb, and Tokyo Sports[J] (a.k.a. Toh-spo), a daily sports newspaper company, jointly introduced a blodget[J] on Wednesday, which may make …
