Technology of Late
As some of you might know already, besides Anime and Japan, I also like Technology, it just fascinates me what you can do with software and ....
14 Jan 3:42 am  from  Rd in Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sharp to Launch Content Delivery Service for E-book Readers
Sharp Corp announced that it will start content delivery service called "Galapagos" in Japan. For a starter, the ....
29 Sep 10:07 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Are You Just Recollecting Japanese?
Have you ever had that feeling of frustration when, having learnt a word one day, the very next it seems to cease to exist inside your head?....
29 Sep 5:38 pm  from  gakuranman.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
DoCoMo’s Earthquake Warning System Works!
4:59:10 PM – Everyone’s DoCoMo phone at the office let off a warning 4:59:33 PM – The earthquake hit. DoCoMo has been advertising thei....
29 Sep 5:00 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Why I Won’t Buy Android (Yet)
Word on the street is that DoCoMo will be selling Samsung’s new Galaxy S Android phone this coming October.  This will be the first Andro....
29 Sep 12:00 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sharp GALAPAGOS E-book Readers
Sharp has announced that it will enter the e-book reader market with its new line of Android-based Galapagos tablets. Here are a couple vi....
29 Sep 8:55 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The New Yorker on iPad
The big news in the digital magazine world this week is of course the release of Conde Nast’s The New Yorker app. It was designed by the ....
29 Sep 1:04 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Love Digi: A Camera That Turns Old Women into Cute Idols
An Asahi TV news program takes a look at Takara Tomy’s Love Digi, a little gadget that takes a series of photos and creates cute little l....
28 Sep 9:50 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Interview on iPad and Other Edition
I’m a bit confused by what Other Edition is doing with their digital line-up of magazines. According to their website, you can pay 7 euro....
27 Sep 10:44 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Problem with Vertigo
Can someone please explain to me what the hell DC Comics is thinking when it comes to the promotion of its Vertigo imprint? Vertigo is the ....
27 Sep 9:49 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Let’s Get Non-Physical
Some more interesting musings by Warren Ellis in regards to digital comics, this time using the success of his free-to-read online web comi....
27 Sep 9:22 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Eliminating an EC2 Auto-Scaling Group
So the time has come to eliminate an Auto-Scaling Group running on your Amazon EC2 account, but you’re getting the run-around from the API....
27 Sep 12:00 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese Text on Amazon Kindle
Recently I had shown my new Amazon Kindle to a few students and I was asked "Does it work with Japanese text?". So here we have the results....
27 Sep 10:00 am  from  JDonuts   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Do As Infinity to stream anniversary concert on Nico Nico Douga
Pop band Do As Infinity has decided to broadcast their next concert online, it has been learned. They are scheduled to perf....
27 Sep 1:43 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Setting Your TimeZone in CentOS
Yesterday I shared how to set up master-master replication in MySQL Server, and today I thought I’d quickly share something that is just a....
25 Sep 9:00 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan iPad competitor – The LuvPad – runs on Android 2.2
It’s certainly very exciting to see an Android-based competitor for Apple’s "revolutionary" iPad coming out o....
24 Sep 9:20 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tepco nuclear power plant starts power output with MOX fuel
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) Power generation using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel started at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushi....
24 Sep 5:18 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
MySQL Server & High Availability
Here’s a question I’m asked often: how can you set up MySQL to be High Availability in a cheap and effective way? In my experience, one ....
24 Sep 12:00 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Mightyverse is for People Interested in Language
Imagine if you could go on a site to learn any language at any given time whether it’s writing, reading, or speaking. Well, Mightverse is ....
23 Sep 2:37 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Writer by Information Architects
Oliver from Information Architects has been teasing his company’s writing app for iPad for a while now, but the wait is over, and you can....
23 Sep 1:21 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A Beautiful Future for Digital Books
If you haven’t watched it yet, do take the time to take a look at the conceptual video IDEO has put together, presenting three possible e....
23 Sep 1:10 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Piping Manufacturer Invents New Idea To Control Typhoons With Submarines
The Mainichi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major newspapers, reports[J] a manufacturing company called Ise Kogyo[J] in the Central Japan has in....
22 Sep 2:00 pm  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Brain Controlled Gaming: Win a Kiss
“Mezamashi TV” shows off an iPad application that uses a headband to measure neural concentration. If you concentrate hard enough, you....
22 Sep 9:18 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Wired UK on iPad
As you can probably tell from the amount of times I mention it, despite its flaws, I do quite like the iPad edition of Wired, and so I’ve....
21 Sep 11:52 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Intel Plans to Equip Chips With USB 3.0 in 2012
,P>Intel Corp disclosed that the company will equip its PC chipsets with the function of a USB 3.0 host controller in 20....
21 Sep 7:58 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
NEC Develops Biomass Plastic BLAH BLAH better than PLA
NEC Corp developed a biomass plastic whose mass ratio of plant-derived materials (plant ratio) is as high as 70%. The prope....
21 Sep 12:54 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
U.S. Global Hawk Drones in East Asia
The United States military has begun to deploy RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned surveillance drones to Guam, and some in Japan see it as an impor....
21 Sep 10:43 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Schwarzenegger Rides Japanese Bullet Train
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Japan last week to research the possibility of using Japanese technology for high speed ra....
21 Sep 10:11 am  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
LineRead on iPad
At the end of my post on the first issue of Longshot, I was complaining about how I was having trouble finding some good things to read on ....
21 Sep 1:20 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
I Live in the Future, and It’s on the iPad
I rather like Nick Bilton’s tech coverage for The New York Times — he runs the Bits blog — and this week he has a new book out called....
21 Sep 1:04 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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