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Mixi Friend-Finder Now Uses Gmail Info via OAuth
Japan No.1 social networking service Mixi, which recently passed 20 million users, announced that their friends invitation page now has “search friends from your gmail” function, in …
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Japanese April Fools' Day Is 3D! 3D! 3D!
Blame Avatar’s hit on screen. Many of Japanese big portal showed great originality on April Fools’ Day. Half a day ahead to 3D services launch in USA. The No.1 Yahoo! Japan announced their …
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January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. METI Lottery In Exchange For Used …
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"Google Is Nothing Special" Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy
An interview to the president of Yahoo! Japan Masahiro Inoue (photo) by Nikkei Business Magazine with a catchy title “Google? I think none of their services are cool.” is getting huge …
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Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site
As reported on Google Help Forum in Japanese [J], some Japanese search users who searched on Google by “yahoo.co.jp” was taken to a site which has a strange domain …
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Google Releases Google Japanese Input (Beta)
Google Japan’s development section announced on Google Japan official blog [J] a project started from their famous 20% rule" produced a new Japanese input method “Google Japanese …
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Google Books Gives Up To Cover Japanese Publication To Avoid Int'l Legal Conflicts
Google submitted a revised settlement to the NY Federal Court Friday seeking approval of an agreement that would clear the way for continuing operation of Google Books, Google’s book retrieval …





