November 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 3)

Continued from (Part 2). Last part of November news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Hatsune Miku Fans And A Popular SiFi Author William Gibson’s Discussions On Tweets [En]
• Hot Rodder’s Hatsune Miku Motorbike
  
• Deloitte Japan Technology Fast 50 Announced.
• Sony Requests Users To Stop Tube TV Made Before 1990 – Fear For Ignition Possibility via AV Watch
• TechCrunch Japan Removed A Photo Of Imperial Japan Surrendered To Allied From Translated Article – Hiroshima atomic bombing photo was also taken care before.
• 16 iPads And 3D Movie Demonstarates Citizen Watch In Shinjyuku Station. There is also 46 x 65 inch Displays With Felica-to-URL Feature In Shinjyuku By Odakyu Railway [pdf]
• Ready-Made Android App Generator Service Dorokuri.com Officially Launches via Gapsis Simple apps like clock, photo album with your logo/photo/illustration can be generated in 1,000-1,500 yen for resell. Free for private use. The service is English/Japanese bilingual.
• 2-channeler And Fans Heats Up Around Online Anime Soccer Character Vote. “Inazuma Eleven” game/anime, 2-chanellers push up unpopular side characters, Fans complain, official counteroffences by buggy adjusting script
• Amazon AWS Start-Up Challenge 2010 Finalist From Japan Is Cinemacraft, Mobile Video Stream Service – Cinemacraft
• Twitter XSS Security Hole Was Pointed Out And Fixed By A Japanese Engineer – It is possible that the attack committed before Twitter’s fix could cause a third party websites using tweets from Twitter JSON API without escape.
• Japanese Mobile Browser Vendor Access Makes Their Smartphone Browser China’s Baidu Friendly
• MyGengo begins competition for developers
• LDP Claims Google Raises Adwords Price Manually After Announcing Alliance With Yahoo! Japan
• M3 To Buy UK-based EMS Research, Doctor Research Company via Markezine
• CyberAgent Ameba Pico to hit 3 million users by year-end in U.S.
• Alliance was announced between Rakuten and Marui It’s like Amazon.com makes an alliance with Macy’s?
• Internet Radio Simalcast Radiko Established A Company, This Test Service Is Likely To Be Formalized
• Funeral Photo Generator From Twitter Icon via By Kazuma Ieiri
• SMBC Consulting Announced 2010 Hit Products Ranking – No Yokozuna (Mega Hits) This Year From IT: Smartphone, LED Light Bulb, 3D Movie, Hayabusa Satellite
• Bili Bili Douga From China – Nico Nico Douga Clone
• Improved Boobs Photo Detection Technology Based On OpenCV Slides
• Shinagawa Station Face Recognizing Vendor Machine Reported in Manga. we covered the first news. now they added 5 more machines in Tokyo stations.
• MDIS(Mitsubushi Electric Information Systems) To Apologize That Their Library Management System Flaw Caused Troubles And False Accusation On A Person Who Ran A Web Crawler (so-called librahack incident). Okazaki-city Excluded MDIS From bidding for 18 months
• Android App “Talk Japanese” Looks So Wrong on Japanese language
• Gaia Online Laying Off [En]
• FarmVille For Dummies Will Be Published In U.S. In Feb 2011. Kaitou Royal has two books (1), (2), Gree’s Clinoppe has one
• How Train IC Card (Suica) Reader Designed In Japan, Written By The Designer/Professor, (2)
• Boys Pop Group KAT-TUN’s New Song Is So Similar With One From Vocaloid Album
• Google Japan Starts Japanese Developer Relations Blog led by Fumi Yamazaki
• SEM Research Says Yahoo! Japan’s Switch To Google Search Almost Finishing – confirmed by Yahoo! Japan

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

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