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  • Japan tests 4K television streams over the internet
    A Japanese telecoms company is carrying out tests to try to prove 4K-resolution video can be streamed over the internet to television set-top boxes. NTT West is hosting the trial - which runs until Friday - and says it believes it is the first of its [BBC News]
  • Google experiment uses balloons to beam Internet down to Earthlings
    CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND ? Google revealed top-secret plans Saturday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access. Scientists from the technology  [The Japan Times]
  • Japan aims to monitor Internet-based communications
    After having agreed on a draft of an official cybersecurity strategy earlier this month, Japan's National Information Security Center (NISC) is looking to establish a Cyber Security Center - an agency equivalent to the U.S. NSA - and allow it to [Help Net Security]
  • Internet survey ranks Japan's four favorite rice toppings
    A specialty of Fukuoka Prefecture, mentaiko is the odds-on favorite going into this bout, due to the success of a recent limited-time promotion by Internet retailer Rakuten in which jumbo-sized 1 kg (2.2 pound) packs of it virtually flew off the [ROCKETNEWS24]
  • Japan , US mull successor to Internet
    WASHINGTON ? Japanese and U.S. science and technology bodies agreed Wednesday to help both countries develop a next-generation information transmission network that could replace the Internet. The government-affiliated organizations said they will  [The Japan Times]
  • Police on alert for premature Internet campaigning
    Police are on the alert for candidates who may be tempted to jump the gun and launch their online campaigns for this Sunday's Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election. The Metropolitan Police Department has assigned a cybercrime investigator to its task [The Japan Times]
  • Secrets deciphered as ancient Maya script meets the modern Internet
    WASHINGTON ? Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the Internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of the enigmatic Mesoamerican civilization. For centuries, scholars understood little about  [The Japan Times]
  • Cat smartphone stand hopes to become newest Internet meme in Japan
    Just when we thought the clever smartphone stand market was tapped out, here comes this little cat stand. Created by Kitan Club, a Japanese capsule toy company, the stand features a cat that looks as if he's trying to hold back an attacker, with a [ROCKETNEWS24]
  • Japanese Internet icon, free from prison, starts app design firm
    Takafumi Horie was once a household name in Japan as the outspoken founder and CEO of Livedoor, a popular domestic website. Dubbed "Horiemon" in the press for his similarity to the pudgy animation character Doraemon, he published several  [PC Advisor]
  • Japanese government mulls internet history tracking for anti-terrorism efforts
    The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ? which is led by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ? for example had its investigative committee draft a proposal for this purpose. The resulting draft includes, among others, a proposal to monitor internet [The Japan Daily Press]
  • news compiled : June 19, 2013

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