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Blower app gives your iPhone mysterious wind power

Blower app gives your iPhone mysterious wind power

It's always nice to have an iPhone app that you can whip out and blow someone's mind with. Now you...
 
Adobe Flash player now accelerates HD streaming

Adobe Flash player now accelerates HD streaming

Even if you have a really fast Internet connection, lots of PCs choke when it comes to streaming HD content....
 
PhoneBook software turns iPhone into child education tool

PhoneBook software turns iPhone into child education tool

Japan-based Mobile Art Lab has taken iPhone innovation in a new, more kid-friendly direction with the introduction of the PhoneBook....
 
ARIder system makes iPhone 3GS a mobile mapping power tool

ARIder system makes iPhone 3GS a mobile mapping power tool

Although bike-mounted GPS devices are fairly common in Tokyo, a new contraption that uses the iPhone 3GS takes the concept...
 
Microsoft deploys cheap burgers to sell Windows 7 in Japan

Microsoft deploys cheap burgers to sell Windows 7 in Japan

Japan has a reputation for weird advertising tie-ins but this one that matches the launch of Windows 7 with the...
 
Ninite installs 59 free apps with one double-click

Ninite installs 59 free apps with one double-click

Moving from Windows XP to Windows 7 will be a whole lot easier if you use Ninite. The free online...
 
Top 10 Windows 7 features: what's useful, borderline or annoying

Top 10 Windows 7 features: what's useful, borderline or annoying

It's an important launch day for Microsoft, and you'll probably be hearing a lot about the most important new features...
 
Computers and cameras taught how to detect card counters

Computers and cameras taught how to detect card counters

Card counters, the gig is up. Researchers created a system of cameras and computers that can sniff you out within...
 
PUFF! iPhone app gives Japan geeks their own Marilyn Monroe

PUFF! iPhone app gives Japan geeks their own Marilyn Monroe

We've been waiting for (dreading?) the wave of oddball Japanese iPhone applications that were inevitable due to the country's penchant...
 
PhotoSketch lets anyone be a Photoshop expert

PhotoSketch lets anyone be a Photoshop expert

Well, this is pretty crazy. PhotoSketch is a web program that lets you make a crude, labeled sketch and turn...
 
Google offers animated Street View privacy policy video

Google offers animated Street View privacy policy video

In recent months Google Japan has been the target of numerous complaints from privacy-minded Japanese citizens concerned about the pervasive...
 
TalkMaster Slim offers the iPod of English language study

TalkMaster Slim offers the iPod of English language study

It may be a few more decades before the universal translators of "Star Trek" become a reality, so in the...
 
Google Japan deploys giant-sized map pins throughout Tokyo

Google Japan deploys giant-sized map pins throughout Tokyo

Like most things Japanese, the promotion for Google Japan's "Favorite Places" campaign is decidedly strange, yet innovative. Designed to promote...
 
Japanese office workers get the Big Brother treatment

Japanese office workers get the Big Brother treatment

The characters in George Orwell's 1984 had it good compared to Japanese workers tagged with new technology created by DSS...
 
Linux booted in one second

Linux booted in one second

Boot times have shortened to around 30 seconds with Windows 7, but now there's some Linux jockeys who have figured...
 

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