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Technology & Electronics

1.Information on Chinese stocks strengthened: MSN Money

2.What happened to Docomo? Market share plummeted under its own weight to below 50%

3.BBC to broadcast iPlayher on-demand service for Wii in tie-up with Nintendo

4.Market expands biggest ever for game machines, software: Enterbrain

5.Apple-Aiphone disputes over iPhone and Aiphone settled

6.jp. domain registrations top 1 million

7.J-CAST News ranked top among Japanese-language websites in increase rate of visitors

8.Who controls the top page, Google or Yahoo? Fierce competition over the mobile terminal search engine

9.Caution: files put on DVD, USB memory chips break after a few years of use?

10.Switching to Vista was not brisk in 2007

11."World's thinnest" laptop, MacBook, newly put out by Apple. Users' merit also "thin"

12.Run on Second Life banks. Cashing stopped due to closure of virtual banks

13.Google surpasses Rakuten in internet viewing rate in Japan

14.Game-like "3-dimensional virtual space" to be available on the net: Daletto

15.BD certain to dominate as format of next-generation DVD. But maybe short-lived

16.Matsushita, YouTube tie-up

17.Mac likes Windows. Truth about popularity of new OS Leopard

18.Winny users sharply increased in 2007

19.Online games to grow to 458 billion yen business in 2012: NRI

20.Snow carving contest in Second Life to be conducted by Asahikawa

21.Less than 40% trust Wikipedia: survey by iSHARE

22.Technology to pinpoint where a picture was re-taken. Developed by NHK and Mitsubishi Electric

23."Most-talked-about goods survey for 2007". Nintendo game machines occupy top two places

24.The Tokyo version of The Michelin Guide assessed byword-of-mouth

25.Orders to put ads in newspapers accepted over internet. New Service of Dentsu on test basis

26.Orders for Nintendo's "DS TV" over-flooded. Nearly 4 million people want to buy.

27.Mickey Mouse-shaped digital audio player with ears as operating knobs. Sold by iriver japan

28.Nintendo terminates accepting repairing orders for Famicon

29.Nifty opens website for fishing enthusiasts

30.SoftBank unveils "premium" mobile phone models for winter

31.Square Enix to start selling "How to Begin Wine DS". Timed with the release of Beaujolais

32.FC2 ranked 2nd in Alexa internet viewing rate in Japan

33.Pet robot that expresses different "feelings" by various patterns of eyes. Sold by Sega Toys

34.Only imagining can move avatar on PC screen. Keio University succeeds on Second Life

35.Tomy's "Omnibot17μi-SOBOT" recognized by Guinness as world's smallest biped robot

36.Yahoo to open portal site for television

37.Value of corporate website. Toyota's is highest at 138,600 million yen

38.Omron develops technique to measure degree of smile

39.Spectacle frames with earphone-size speakers attached to temples. Sold by Vision Optic

40.Yahoo and Google. Are they really top Search Engines for mobile terminals in Japan?

41.Mobile phone rate in Tokyo is 3 times that in NY

42.Broadband rate in Tokyo remains lowest in the world for 6 years in a row

43.Suntory tops the list of brand effectiveness on the website of food companies

44.Dentsu sets up "Virtual Tokyo" in Second Life

45.iPhones selling well in Japan though still no good as phones

46.Canon selects actor Ken Watanabe as "communication partner" for advertising of new digital single-lens reflex EOS40D

47.Hitachi to sell video camera to record on Blu-Ray disc for first time in world

48.Keio University to open campus in Second Life

49.Nintendo revises upward its consolidated sales forecast

50.Hitachi to sell world's first BD compatible video camera

51.SCE to sell PS3 with 80GB HDD in N. America

52.Use of internet reflects income disparity: white paper

53.Yahoo! Japan, most used in the world

54.80% of computer users feel stress

55.Fiscal 06 banner advertisement sponsors, IT and manufacturing industries account for majority

56.Majority use Yahoo! as their main portal

57.Tokyo Tower appears in Second Life

58.Video of “Otters holding hands” now attracting viewers on YouTube

59.Sony unveils digital camera with world’s first 12,100,000 pixels

60.Adways starts affiliate advertising on Second Life

61.Explosive popularity achieved by automatic access,“Unfair” tactics to push up clicks on You Tube serious issue

62.Advertisements on mobile receivers to grow by about 3 folds in 2011

63.Customized volume of Tezuka’s cartoon works offered by electronics publisher

64.SoftBank starts mobile phone sales promotion on Second Life

65.More Tax Payers’ Money may be Spent for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting,Criticized for “Favoring High-Wage-Paying TV Stations”

66.Web development and Web marketing Consortium launched

67.Nintendo forecasts consolidated sales to go up by 1.9 times over previous term

68.EMOBILE Enters Mobile Phone Business,Success or Failure May Be Known Next Year

69.Uphill Fight for “OhmyNews” Both in Japan and in South Korea

70.Keio University Miss Contest Spoiled After Suspicion Arose about Cheating, Acting in Adult Video

71.Critical Voices Flare Up on Coeds’ Blogs After Report by NHK

72.Nifty to be Listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange

73.Videos of High School Student Bulling Shown on Internet

74.SoftBank Pres. Son Gets Information from 2channel

75.Kameda’s Mingling with Youth Suffering from CancerCriticized as “Self Advertisement” on Internet

76.NTV’s Giants Games Viewership Falls below 10%

77.TV Tokyo Head Sugaya Criticizes Boxer Kameda, Becomes Popular among Reporters

78.Sky Perfect and JSAT to Integrate Operations

79.Impress Acquires Travel Publishing Company

61.Explosive popularity achieved by automatic access,
“Unfair” tactics to push up clicks on You Tube serious issue

65.More Tax Payers’ Money may be Spent for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting,
Criticized for “Favoring High-Wage-Paying TV Stations”

68.EMOBILE Enters Mobile Phone Business,
Success or Failure May Be Known Next Year

75.Kameda’s Mingling with Youth Suffering from Cancer
Criticized as “Self Advertisement” on Internet

77.TV Tokyo Head Sugaya Criticizes Boxer Kameda,
Becomes Popular among Reporters