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Kawaii Security - Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book
It is understandable to make your favorite web services drawn as characters, but how about internet viruses? A Japanese publisher Sansai Books started selling a security book “Kawaii …
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Amazon Cloud Makes Landing On Tokyo, Japan
Amazon Web Services announced on March 2 that they had added a Tokyo data center as its 5th in the world, 2nd in Asia after Singapore. Almost all of Amazon Web Services except Elastic MapReduce, …
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What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese - Bath Tub Lid
Apple’s new iPad2 announcement was followed by a lot of coverage, so I do not have much to add from Japan. A funny thing happened in Japanese web was about their newly-introduced official …
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Steply: A HK-made Photo Sharing App Attracts iPhone Users, Especially In Asia
Last August, I was invited to attend Startup Saturday, a Hong Kong’s first ever remarkable tech start-up event, by Takeshi Hirano, the editor and writer for TechCrunch Japan, during his …
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Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories
We’ve come across a service by NTT Communications tentatively called “Health Enhancement Assist Service” [J], which unlike its name, is an incredibly interesting little innovation …
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Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit's Pompare - Maybe Osechigate Affected
Daily deal coupon search service Coupon.jp released [J] their February research on Japanese daily deal coupon service sales by calculating each site’s coupon prices and number of sold tickets. …
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Buy Your Twitter Friend a Beer With Micro-gifting Service giftee
Have you ever wanted to buy your Twitter friend a drink as a way of saying “Thanks” or “Cheer up”? You could have opted for an Amazon or iTunes e-giftcard if you knew their …
