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Vending Machines Get More Intelligent, They Recommend You What To Drink
Wherever you go in Japan, vending machines are serving drinks and beverages at every corner of the country. We’re experiencing the hottest summer for the first time in a long time, which …
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[Update 2] First Offline, Now Unstable: Japan's No. 1 Social Network Mixi In Trouble
Update: August 12, 11.30am: Mixi just issued a press release saying the service is back up. Apparently, Mixi had serious Memcached server trouble. Update: Mixi seems to have serious problems. As of …
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Gree Releases Beta Version Of iPhone Page
Gree, a Japanese social network service competing the No.1 position with Mixi and Mobage-Town around 20-million-users-line, released its iPhone site as a beta version today. Their release tells that …
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BREAKING: Facebook Rolls Out Special Mobile Version For Japanese Feature Phones
Facebook, which opened a Tokyo office back in February this year, has just pushed out the long-awaited “optimized” version for Japanese “feature phones”. Well, kind of, as the …
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SEO Of Love - Japanese Song and Game On SEO
“Koi no SEO”(SEO of Love) is a Japanese song by Kyoto-based SEO company Web Rider Inc.. Of course, this SEO means “Search Engine Optimization”. “Today I got my page …
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Mixi To Enter Asia, The US And Europe
Earlier this week, I read a quite interesting interview Fumiaki Koizumi, the CFO of Japan’s biggest social network Mixi, gave to the Nikkei (the country’s leading business daily). In the …
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NICT Introduces iPhone App Interpreting What You Speak Or Type
NICT, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, introduced the iPhone app called VoiceTra which interprets what you speak. It allows voice input (original) in …
