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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Akky Akimoto</title>
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		<title>Accidental leak IDs over 30,000 &#8216;anonymous&#8217; 2channel users</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s most popular online bulletin-board service, 2channel (pronounced ni-chaneru), recently experienced what is probably the biggest problem in its 14-year history when its promise to keep users&#8217; anonymity was severely broken by an information breach. 2channel was founded by Hiroyuki Nishimura in 1999. It rapidly gained popularity by offering anonymity and has become one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chain stores suffer part-timers&#8217; stupidity on the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month or so, the hottest topic on the Japanese Web scene has been inconsiderate and shocking behavior by convenience- and food chain-stores employees who messed about with appliances and food, and then boasted with photos on social media, mainly on Twitter. While the initial so-called enj&#333; (to burn &#8212; as in it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese adults spend crazy money on cellphone games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mobile games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade, people&#8217;s behavior during their daily train ride has completely changed. In the past, Japanese were known to be avid readers of paperbacks (bunko) and manga magazines, and would do so even on Tokyo&#8217;s notoriously crowded trains. Now, however, it is rare to spot someone on the train who is not staring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web company IPOs in Japan pick up pace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What Web services are hot in Japan? One indicator that a company&#8217;s business is growing and that it&#8217;s expecting more growth is when it lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) with an IPO (Initial Public Offering). Today I&#8217;ll introduce a few Japanese Web companies that are being listed. Photo Create Photo Create is planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Glass may shatter Japan&#8217;s &#8216;manner&#8217; mode</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Glass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google Glass is the latest mobile Internet gadget to grab headlines. Resembling a pair of glasses, the futuristic device enables wearers to access the Internet &#8212; in particular Google&#8217;s search, maps and translation functions &#8212; as long as they have a Wifi or Bluetooth connection. The mini computer screen that appears in a user&#8217;s direct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shows on the road: mobile, on-demand TV a hit in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There must be very few homes in the developed world that don&#8217;t have a television, and Japan is no exception. Even in the Internet era, as terrestrial TV is slowly being replaced by networked TVs, cable channels and computers, regular TV broadcasting still makes up for much of many people&#8217;s leisure time. However, on-demand video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan expresses its love for Apple and Steve Jobs, in manga</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. has been always loved by people in Japan. Even during its toughest years, in the 1990s, after cofounder Steve Jobs had been expelled and the company was almost dead, its Macintosh computer held a much greater market share in Japan than in other countries. ]]></description>
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		<title>Freeware has animators dancing to the Hatsune Miku beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you search for the acronym MMD on Niconico or YouTube — the two most popular video-sharing sites in Japan — the resulting list will have over 100,000 anime videos, most of which have 3-D anime-style girl characters singing and dancing to electronic J-pop music. What&#8217;s surprising is that these (usually short) videos are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CV frauds revealed by diligent online fact checks</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/01/16/digital/cv-frauds-revealed-by-diligent-online-fact-checks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cv-frauds-revealed-by-diligent-online-fact-checks</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, there have been several cases where Japanese media icons, especially those who shine across national and language borders, have been accused of falsifying their personal histories, and they have consequently lost whatever popularity they had gained through the mass media and/or books. The most public example of this recently was Hisashi Moriguchi, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 has been a big year on the Japanese social-media scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter continues to ride high. Facebook has grown a lot, but newcomer Line seems set to overtake it. Social game companies Gree and Mobage have shifted their overseas expansion into high gear. And Mixi finally admits that it needs to try harder to understand what its members want. In this month&#8217;s column, we look back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merumaga: Paid e-mail newsletters make a come-back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that Japan has the world&#8217;s largest market for digital-manga, which are primarily read on cellphones, and that Amazon has recently brought out its Kindle platform in Japan &#8212; after a delay of 5 years &#8212; the e-book business here has yet to take off. As such, it&#8217;s probably no surprise that old-style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple should team up with local companies to solve Maps dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September, a major update of Apple&#8217;s iOS software for iPhones and iPads (iOS6) replaced the devices&#8217; long-standing Google Maps application with Apple&#8217;s self-made Maps service. However, the new app soon caused outrage among iDevice users around the world due to the low quality of the maps. In Japan, where addresses are rather complicated, people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! Japan&#8217;s &#8216;explosive speed&#8217; changes Web biz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, Japanese Web titan Yahoo! Japan appointed a new CEO and new board members &#8212; the first big change to its board since the company was founded 16 years ago. The new executive quickly implemented changes that have led to faster decision-making and a more aggressive approach to business &#8212; things not seen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite flaws, Rakuten is 1-0 against Amazon in Japan&#8217;s e-book wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rakuten, Japan&#8217;s largest online shopping mall &#8212; and a head-to-head rival of Amazon Japan that also hopes to expand its business globally &#8212; launched its first e-book reader, the Rakuten Kobo Touch, on July 19, getting the jump on the long anticipated Japanese release of Amazon&#8217;s Kindle. On June 26 &#8212; the very same day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s LINE social network could challenge global competitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LINE is a cross-platform communication service and app, offered for free by Naver, from NHN Japan. The basic functionality allows users to send text messages and to make free calls with other users who have the app installed on their smartphones. The service launched just 13 months ago, on June 27, 2011, and its growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online crowdfunded tuition service entangled in controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowdfunding, a method that enables projects to raise money over the Internet, has become one of the hottest trends in the world of Web-startups. The most successful of these is Kickstarter.com, which has hosted more than 45,000 projects. Crowdfunding services host project details alongside the fundraising target and the deadline. Projects vary from site to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s social-gaming industry hindered by government&#8217;s anti-gambling move</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to mobile social-gaming, nowhere is it as popular or as profitable as it is in Japan. The nation&#8217;s two industry giants, Gree and its rival DeNA&#8217;s Mobage, have been increasing their sales every quarter for years. Gree&#8217;s TV-commercial campaigns are second only to cosmetics company Shiseido in the amount of money spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why good Wi-Fi is so hard to find in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends visiting Japan often ask me why there are no, or very few, Wi-Fi hotspots available at hotels and cafes in Tokyo. They mention that in their countries, many places offer free Wi-Fi for guests &#8212; often it is completely open, or you simply need to ask the staff for the password. In Tokyo, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The Man is following you online &#8212; and even on the train</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hatena is a Kyoto-based company that has run several web services since 2001. Similar to Digg, Delicious or Reddit, it has grown a web-savvy, tech-oriented community around a Q&#38;A service (from which its name, Japanese for &#8220;question mark,&#8221; is gleaned), free blog-hosting, and so on. While its user base is not huge, it offers some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmetics review website goes public with IPO</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/02/15/digital/cosmetics-review-website-goes-public-with-ipo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cosmetics-review-website-goes-public-with-ipo</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo-based Internet company Istyle Inc. announced on Feb. 3 its intention to list itself on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market (Tosho Mothers). The planned date of the IPO is March 8, 2012. Istyle&#8217;s flagship service @Cosme (pronounced &#8220;atto kosume,&#8221; &#8212; www.cosme.net) is the country&#8217;s largest cosmetic and beauty product community website. And as far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Stealth marketing&#8217; by companies is polluting online forums</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/01/18/digital/stealth-marketing-by-companies-is-polluting-online-forums/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stealth-marketing-by-companies-is-polluting-online-forums</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard that the underbelly of the Japanese Web revolves around a massive bulletin-board service called 2-channel (pronounced ni-channel), where people can post messages anonymously. For Japanese, who find it difficult to freely express their opinions in public, that anonymity has meant that 2-channel has become a place of emancipation. As such, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011: The year when Japan went global over social networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, major U.S. social-media services have made some serious inroads into Japan. Here are some recent developments. Mixi vs. Facebook A report on Japanese social-networking services usage issued by Nielsen/NetRatings on Nov. 18 made a huge impact in Japan, as the statistics indicated that the number of Mixi users (8.39 million) has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social-gaming and traditional media no longer deadly foes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s two social-game-networking giants, Gree and Mobage, have been spending enormous amounts on producing TV advertising recently, and as a result they have each attracted approximately 20 percent of the population to their services, selling vast number of virtual items. In the West it is unusual to promote Web services on traditional media such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android privacy concerns rise over apps crossing the line</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo-based IT company Milog is known for providing Android-based smartphone apps that let users share information about the apps installed on their phones and rank them by popularity. This small startup, established in 2009, has been supported by notable companies, including receiving a &#165;310 million joint-investment from information and job-placement agency Recruit and Japan&#8217;s second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interviewed like a star: Anonymous question and answer site is proving popular in Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2011/09/21/digital/interviewed-like-a-star-anonymous-question-and-answer-site-is-proving-popular-in-japan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=interviewed-like-a-star-anonymous-question-and-answer-site-is-proving-popular-in-japan</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month or so, a new social service has risen out of the blue in the Japanese Web. The Interviews, as the service is called, was launched on July 31 by Tokyo-based Internet company Paperboy &#38; Co. Inc., which said the service was produced during a two-day in-house development contest. In short, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Japanese advertisers suggest Internet-search keywords?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that everywhere you look in Japan these days, printed advertising has Internet-style &#8220;search buttons&#8221; somewhere in the design, with Japanese text inside a box indicating the term to be searched. And many TV commercials end with a short phrase &#8220;such and such de kensaku&#8221; (&#8220;search on the Internet for such and such&#8221;). These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Japan invite Google+ into its growing circle of social networks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite only being in closed beta testing at the moment, Google&#8217;s new social-network service, Google+, is rapidly proving to be huge, with more than 10 million users joining since it was announced on June 28. And thanks to their international connections, Net-savvy Japanese too were soon getting invitations to join &#8220;circles,&#8221; which is how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan, the Twitter nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Twitter&#8217;s official blog (blog.twitter.com), when the clock stuck midnight last New Year&#8217;s Eve, Japanese Twitter users went crazy, recording 6,939 tweets per second&#8212;a new record at the time. In fact, globally 14 percent of all tweets are in Japanese&#8212;second only to English, with 50 percent&#8212;which explains why Japanese was the second language to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the battle with smart phones is i-mode dead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since 1999, when the Web-service/portal known as &#8220;i-mode&#8221; first appeared on Japanese keitai (cell phones), Japan has been hailed as the world leader in mobile phone technology &#8212; until recently that is. For those of you who may not know, i-mode is the mobile Internet-access service built into cell phones from Japanese communication giant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mobile-Internet is a lifeline for people in postquake confusion</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2011/03/16/digital/the-mobile-internet-is-a-lifeline-for-people-in-postquake-confusion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-mobile-internet-is-a-lifeline-for-people-in-postquake-confusion</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akky Akimoto</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the earthquake hit northern Japan on Friday, voice calls from mobile phones became immediately unavailable in order to leave room for emergency calls. However, in the Kanto area, mobile Internet connection was mostly kept on, and many people turned to the Web to exchange information. On Japan&#8217;s main social networking site, mixi, some communities [...]]]></description>
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