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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Oki stretches gigabit-class fat data pipe to infinity
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Most of the breakthroughs in high-speed data connections that we hear about are of purely theoretical value in the short term, but Oki Japan seems set to buck the trend by committing to making its latest technology commercial in the near future.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Net censorship spreading to Japan as suits fail to comprehend new media
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It’s easy to believe the tales of internet censorship we hear regularly from China, but not so its ostensibly democratic neighbor in Japan. That perception may change of Japanese regulations shake up the online world as proposed.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Remote workers rejoice as VPN gets speed bump
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02:24 AM
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If you’ve ever had the misfortune to dial into a virtual private network (VPN) for a spot of long-distance telecommuting, you’ll doubtless be overjoyed to hear of a new technique that gives the slowcoach technology a boot up the backside.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Chatbots faking it as they pretend to be us
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Internet | Off Topic | R&D | Software
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The idea of a far-distant future where we can upload our very essence to some digital repository in the ether is both compelling and repulsive in equal measure, but a less sci-fi alternative may be closer than we think.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Extreme close-up: Sony Alpha A200 dissected + DSLR tips a-go-go
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Digital cameras & camcorders | Internet
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All-round good egg/camera obsessive Gordon Laing at Camera Labs not only has the most detailed review (video here too) of Sony’s new Alpha A200 entry-level DSLR but he’s even found time to branch out with a new camera uber site.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Japanese copyright holders embrace YouTube uploaders
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The copyright-protection technology currently being trialled by YouTube has had a most unexpected result in the shape of an old-fashioned content owner embracing fan uploads to promote itself on the video-sharing site.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Study shows Japanese children are addicted to phones
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The latest research on the mobile phone habits of Japanese children may be music to the ears of phone providers, but the depth to which the gadgets have penetrated the lives of the young there is bound to set alarm bells ringing elsewhere.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Digital watermark punishes cinemas, not their evil cam-copying customers
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Film, TV, manga & anime | Home theater | Internet | R&D
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Japan’s state broadcaster, NHK, has teamed up with Mitsubishi Electric to create an anti-piracy system that it hopes will put a stop to movie copying from cinemas.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
NEC’s smart search checks web and RSS feeds to lighten research load
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An unusual new piece of software announced today by NEC Japan is intended for businesses seeking a competitive advantage over rivals, but - if it reaches full potential - could redefine internet searching instead.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Sony video-sharing site goes high def with set-top box
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We recently speculated that YouTube might one day soon be delivering high-definition online video instead of the grainy clips that proliferate now, but Sony Japan’s eyeVio video-sharing site has beaten the Google company to the punch by starting an HD TV service yesterday.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Anti-piracy software hunts down copyright clips to kick off video-sharing sites
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Japanese researchers have come up with a rather snooty technique for detecting online pirated video content in places where it shouldn’t be. By analyzing clips for ’amateur-looking techniques’ KDDI reckons it can sort the professional stuff out from the garbage the rest of us produce.
Terabit-class fat pipe delivers online movies in an instant
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When it comes to internet speeds, we’ve long-since consigned the humble kilobit-class connection to the dustbin, so a mathematics-based breakthrough has us wondering if megabit- and even gigabit-level connections will one day sound as quaintly archaic.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
KDDI to deliver domestic 4x high-definition video on demand
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KDDI, the company that recently started an online service delivering DVD-quality movies to domestic customers has upped the ante to send quad-HD films down the same pipe.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Chinese kiss-and-tell a good read even without the sex
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You may already have come across the notorious China Bounder – a how-to-get-laid-while-still-caring-about-stuff blog from Shanghai written by a ‘Western scoundrel’ – through reports about internet censorship in China like this one, but it doesn’t hurt to pass on a reminder to check it out.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Magic carpet offers virtual ride to Second Life
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As this latest piece of sci-fi-style research has appeared only in a rather traditional Japanese newspaper we haven’t been able to get many details yet, but thought we’d mention it in passing, as everyone loves a good yarn.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Blogs to be policed by anti-copying software
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Due to the riches of the movie and music businesses, video and audio gain the most attention when it comes to online copyright violation, but unauthorized use of photographs and other artwork is also an issue, particularly for individuals with no corporate protection.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Yahoo Japan fires up mobile YouTube rival
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Currently a Japan-only project, Yahoo Videocast launched here today with a strong emphasis on allowing users to upload and watch videos from their mobile phones.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Multicore CPU lockdown key to stopping viruses
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Desktop PCs | Internet | Laptops & PDAs | R&D | Wireless
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Multicore CPUs are already ten-a-penny, but who woulda thunk they’d soon be appearing in cellphones, cars and HD TV players and that they could hold the key to eliminating computer viruses?
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Technology fostering community of translators and comic fans
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In one of the most innovative and open-minded approaches to intellectual property we’ve seen in a long time, Toshiba is helping Japanese comic-book artists bring their work to the rest of the world through some pretty clever technology.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
KDDI piping full DVD downloads through broadband
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Standard domestic internet connections in Japan have long been fast enough to deliver a lot more than most people use, with average ADSL download speeds maxing out at around 50Mbps and fiber connections typically twice that.
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