Tag: JAPAN

Mainichi Daily News is reporting that about 30 Japanese organizations in Japan, including the University of Tokyo and major electronics and telecom companies, will be jointly opening a research institute to develop a next-generation search engine. The institute, which will be subsidized by the Japanese government, plans to have the new search engine "put into practical use" within two years. Among ...

Like so many buried Flash games out there, Nanaka Crash has been around for a bit. You play a girl on a bike, and try to hit boys with your bike. The goal is to launch the boys as far as you can. If you're lucky, when they bounce, they'll hit another girl, who will hit them, and you'll get a nice bonus bounce. This sounds weirder by the minute... Anyway, it's a one-button game, which I really ...

I think it's only a matter of time before Google brings something more like Google Earth to web browsers, but in the meantime check out 3D Maps, a Japanese proof-of-concept that takes map images from Google Maps and uses SVG to transform them into a pseudo-3D tilted view. It only works with Firefox 1.5 and is pretty slow, but is cool nonetheless. If you read Japanese there's some technical ...

Microsoft has made a deal with SoftBank, the largest VoIP carrier in Japan, to offer "VoIP, instant messaging, Internet access, e-mail, groupware, presence and desktop services to Japanese businesses," says Ars Technica's Matt Mondok. SoftBank will provide the VoIP infrastructure while Microsoft will provide hosted versions of its server products like Exchange, Office Live Communications ...