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Nokia isn’t exactly one of the most popular cellphone companies in Japan. In fact, they only have a 1% market share and most of the phones that you actually see in the stores are adapted versions of the “normal” nokia phones you would find in the rest of the world. It seems that Nokia is aware of t
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Humanoid, programmed to recite lines and move around stage, co-stars in production at Osaka University.
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The 2.2 firmware has emoji added for softbank users only. Sad, but if you jailbroke your phone, you can get them through editing or going into Cydia and installing the emoji script.
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I came across eGenki, a new Facebook-style social networking site for Japan. We've seen such sites before, but this one looks very promising. For one thing, it's built with Joomla and is most likely self-hosted. That tells me the owner is serious about making the site a success because of the wor
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I bet DBR is happy she waited on that netbook purchase, 'cause Dell is selling their basic netbooks for ONE HUNDRED YEN!!!
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Although the technology's still not exactly cost-effective, this is still a step in the right direction.
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Keep you eye on your flash drive and be careful of using a buddies - if he/she hangs out at an internet cafe it may be infected with a virus that could cause you all sorts of trouble.
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There's one for each in Docomo's new lines of phones, 4 new series, STYLE, PRIME, SMART and PRO.
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The Twitter Drawers Collection project drew 37 Japanese illustrators together to design Twitter themes. If you use Twitter, you might like to use one of these themes. Hat tip to ShaneS.
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Amazing blue roses. So purrrrty
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Finally, Google Maps offers romaji labels and limited English search capabilities. (It does not take exact address.) Great feature everyone was waiting for. Sorry, this particular post I linked here is in Japanese. [EDIT: URL changed to translation]
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If you're a fan of speed you'll be glad to know that the magical piece of paper was signed this week that allows the go ahead for the 500 kph Maglev train. If you've been on the bullet train or watched one hurtle through a local train station, imagine something coming through at double or triple
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Cell phone interfaces and design in Japan. Too much stuff that's not easy to use. What are your thoughts? I know I still haven't figured out how to activate the outgoing message on my cell phone (I have to admit that I haven't tried real hard but it should be simple - right?)
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What a cool idea - use Hokkaido's winter snow to help keep the airport cool in the summer thereby reducing energy consumption.
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