{"id":15488,"date":"2011-10-08T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15488"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T12:20:41","slug":"september-2011-japan-it-links-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/september-2011-japan-it-links-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from <a href=\"\">(Part 2)<\/a>. Last part of  September news which we did not write as a dedicated article.<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2011\/0921\/9653\/\">Mixi bought Naked Technology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wilcom&#8217;s New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frisk.jp\/index.html\">Frisk<\/a>-size Cellphone. Their claiming &#8220;world smallest&#8221; seems the smallest among cellphone having 10-digit buttons. <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/09\/21\/wx03a-worlds-smallest-and-lightest-phs-cell-phone-unveiled-in-japan\/\">TechCrunch covered it<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=476\">Naver Japan&#8217;s Mobile Messenger App &#8220;Line&#8221; Passes 1 Million Downloads, Including Middle East Countries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/09\/21\/japans-rakuten-acquires-uk-e-commerce-site-play-com-for-39-1-million\/\">Rakuten Acquires UK Play.com<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li>Nikkei scoops <a href=\"http:\/\/business.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/topics\/20110921\/222726\/\">KDDI would get the iPhone 5<\/a> &#8211; Although it was iPhone 4S, it was correct.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/jiken\/news\/20110919ddm002040126000c.html\">Foreign Ministry To Invite 15 Infuluential Foreign Twitter\/Facebook Users, Hope To Report Eastern Japan Is Safe And Fine<\/a>. It&#8217;s not &#8220;stealth&#8221; but is that really a good idea?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bookpic.net\/\">bookpic<\/a> &#8211; Social e-Book Communication Platform (in English and Japanese)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2011-09-20\/aniplex-to-stream-fate\/zero-worldwide-in-8-languages\">Nico Nico Douga To Air A New Animation With 8 Subbed Languages [En]<\/a> For Free For One Week<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv-tokyo.co.jp\/7ch_remocon\/\">TV Tokyo&#8217;s Pikachu TV Controller<\/a> &#8211; made as a prize. The button for channel 7 (TV Tokyo) is bigger than else, tells &#8220;Pikachu&#8221; when you press.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tv-tokyo-pikachu-remote-controller.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tv-tokyo-pikachu-remote-controller.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"tv-tokyo-pikachu-remote-controller\" width=\"235\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15527\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/f8tokyo\">Facebook F8 Tokyo On Oct 10<\/a>. 15,750 yen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/matome.naver.jp\/odai\/2131675627525873301\">Naver Matome Getting Site-wide Google AdSense Suspension Notice By Hosting Copyrighted Contents<\/a> &#8211; in the end they gave up Google ads. jeopardy for their business model<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaikei.co.jp\/article\/20110926\/81822.html\">Goldman Sachs predicting iPhone 5 may not been shipped by Softbank<\/a> &#8211; not known iPhone &#8220;5&#8221; but 4S was not taken up from Softbank<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/corporate\/news_release\/2011\/0927a\/index.html\">KDDI Develops Smartphone Audible Even When Wearing Headphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponichi.co.jp\/society\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/kiji\/K20110927001709320.html\">Amazon Japan To Open Customer Call Center In Sendai<\/a>, earthquake affected area. potentially 1,000 jobs in future in disastrous Tohoku area<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/business\/35008109\/\">KLab&#8217;s First Day On TSE Mothers Raises 2.3 Times High<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/careers?jvi=ov8PVfw7%2CJob\">Yelp Is Hiring Japanese Product Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenovo.com\/news\/jp\/ja\/2011\/09\/0928.html\">Former Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei Becomes Lenovo&#8217;s External Board Member<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/id-credit.com\/kaito\/index1.html\">Post-paid E-Money iD Rewards Kaitou Royal Special Item For User<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/business\/35008102\/\">Sharp Goodby To CCC, Japanese Blockbuster. Galapagos E-bookstore Solely Owned By Sharp Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kukuru.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Yahoo! Kukuru Starts &#8211; Clone Of Naver Matome?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dena.jp\/press\/2011\/09\/ios.php\">DeNA Releases Kaitou Royal And Nouen Hokkorina Apps For iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.net\/en\/2011\/09\/28\/introducing-flickr-photo-session-and-the-flickr-android-app\/\">Flickr&#8217;s New Android App Is Not Available For Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharp.co.jp\/corporate\/news\/110929-e.html\">France Telecom To Sell Sharp&#8217;s 3D Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kn.2ngen.jp\/\">Osaka-based Ningen Inc. introduces a kinect app that allows girls to get bigger breasts with the augmented reality technology (AR).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog\/media, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from (Part 2). Last part of September news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Mixi bought Naked Technology Wilcom&#8217;s New Frisk-size Cellphone. Their claiming &#8220;world smallest&#8221; seems the smallest among cellphone having 10-digit buttons. TechCrunch covered it [En] Naver Japan&#8217;s Mobile Messenger&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/september-2011-japan-it-links-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">September 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan-it-links","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}