Articles on Japan, Google Inc.
Bandai's new Doraemon Robot - Sep 3, 2009
Blogs One of the most well-known cartoons to ever come out of Asia, Doraemon (or the robotic cat) celebrates his 30th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion Bandai is today releasing ... Read story »Google fights controversy with cute in Japan - Sep 16, 2009
Blogs Some of you may remember a video I posted a few months ago, created by Google Japan to promote its Chrome browser. It's really a testament to how much faith Google ... Read story »Google Trike rides into Singapore - Sep 29, 2009
Crave It was almost a year ago that we spotted a Google Street View car in Singapore. Now, the search giant is adding what it calls a "mechanical masterpiece" to gather images ... Read story »Baidu CEO, Robin Li, speaks out - Sep 25, 2009
Blogs Robin Li, the co-founder and current CEO of Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, is--unsurprisingly--a tech superstar. However, we don't get to hear too much from him. So, the Wall Street ... Read story »Google Maps layer helps Singapore users find defibrillators - Nov 30, 2009
Crave My only encounter with a defibrillator is on TV dramas such as House, ER, or Grey's Anatomy. It's a device that delivers electrical pulses to the heart and can save ... Read story »Singapore gets Google Street View, finally - Dec 2, 2009
Crave Screenshot of Esplanade Drive It's been a long wait, but Google's ground-level imagery feature Street View of Singapore is at last a go. According to Google, Singapore is the first ... Read story »Google releases a Japanese IME - Dec 3, 2009
Blogs Here's some good news for Japanese speakers typers out there. Google has just announced its new Japanese IME (input method editor) and, from my limited usage today, it seems to work ... Read story »Internet Karma: The secret to profit in online publishing - Jul 31, 2009
Blogs Note: I get a quota of one cheesy headline per month, so I'm using this one before July is over. Yesterday, I attended a Tokyo tweet-up hosted by Thomas Crampton at ... Read story »Google's historical maps point the way to shunned outcast villages - May 3, 2009
Blogs I just came across a fascinating post by the AP's Jay Alabaster, on how some historical maps on Google Earth may be used to discover the location of Japan's burakumin, a ... Read story »Jump to page: [1]
Mail
