Motto TV: Japan Gets New Video-On-Demand Service
Hulu Japan , actvila , and other existing video content providers are getting competition soon: a total of seven Japanese companies are currently preparing a video-on-demand service for connected TVs that’s scheduled to launch on April 2 this year.
Japan Patent Office Gives Up New Patent System Which Already Spent 5.5 Billion Yen
Asahi reported [J] that Japan’s Patent Office(JPO) decided to terminate their patent management system renewal project which began in 2006. They already spent 5.5 billion yen(US$70 million) and specially formed inspection committee in the organization recommended to stop the project
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Japan Patent Office Gives Up New Patent System Which Already Spent 5.5 Billion Yen
Mixi And DeNA Allies In Social Commerce
January 25, two of Japan’s largest social networking service companies, DeNA(who runs Mobage) and Mixi announced their new alliance on social commerce. On the release, it is said that “Mixi, who holds networks of close friends” and “DeNA, who has plenty of knowledge on e-commerce and has been running Bidders (mobile shopping service)” are going to construct a new social commerce service in this growing sector.
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Mixi And DeNA Allies In Social Commerce
Hatsune Miku’s Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart
“Tell Your World “, the song which is used for Google Chrome Promotional campaign of livetune feat. Hatsune Mike (初音ミク) tops at iTunes Japan among all categories. iTunes Japan chart at 19th January was following
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Hatsune Miku’s Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart
Hatsune Miku’s Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart
“Tell Your World “, the song which is used for Google Chrome Promotional campaign of livetune feat. Hatsune Mike (初音ミク) tops at iTunes Japan among all categories.
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Hatsune Miku’s Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart
Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results
NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest telecommunication company NTT, who is running Goo , a search engine for PC, mobile (mainly for Docomo handsets) and smartphone, released [J] that Goo starts providing “Useful Tweets” on its search result page.
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Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results
Japanese Government Tries To Distribute Fake Pirated TV Drama Over P2P File Sharing Networks
Jpaan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) on January 20 released [J] that they are running an experiment to distribute files which name look like pirated TV drama videos from January 23 to 29. The fake drama videos will be distributed at least on two popular Japanese peer-to-peer file sharing tools/networks, Winny and Share.
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Japanese Government Tries To Distribute Fake Pirated TV Drama Over P2P File Sharing Networks
10% Of Ministry Staff Open Suspicious Mail Attachment On Surprise Security Drill In Japan
Japan’s National Information Security Center reported on January 19 that the results of its security drill with 60,000 staff in 12 government organizations around malicious mail attachment [J, pdf]. According to the report, from October to December 2011, the center held security training to the 60,000 staff, then sent two mails which you could not identify the sender information.
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10% Of Ministry Staff Open Suspicious Mail Attachment On Surprise Security Drill In Japan
Japan’s #2 Carrier KDDI Pushing Ads On Android Notification Bar
KDDI, Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier is being blamed by users on Twitter [J] by displaying advertising on Android “as a system notification”. Here is a sample screenshot informs from KDDI to you “Diet by an App”, on the system notification. The Android app to insert such ads on the Android system notification is an officially bundled “au one Market”, alternative Android Market powered by KDDI au (Google’s Android Market also exists on the phones)
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Japan’s #2 Carrier KDDI Pushing Ads On Android Notification Bar
Japan’s Web News Week 3
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Domino Pizza To Sell Net-Limited Heart Pizza For Valentine’s Day via MyNavi Sutelog – Judge If Given Tabelog Restaurant Reviews Are Suspicious By Stealth-Marketing – background [En] Face K-on Anime Shirts Sankei Shinbun iPhone App Turned Out Collecting Who Read Which Page When – Softbank-related e-Magazine service Viewn has the same issue.
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Japan’s Web News Week 3