「Convergence Or Confusion: Comparing Apple’s And Microsoft’s Approaches To Post-PC」 Last week saw Microsoft launch its latest major operating system update, Windows 8. We’ve had a good long time to get used to what Windows 8 was bringing…

Amazon Instant now available on Samsung TVs The one major streaming service heretofore absent from Samsung's TVs, Amazon Instant, is now available. Today Samsung announced that the popular video service will be available for immediate, fre…

「The Nokia Asset Offload Continues: Qt Assets Go To Digia For ‘Fraction’ Of $150M Nokia Paid For It」 More downsizing and rationalizing from troubled handset maker Nokia. Today, Finnish software company Digia , which bought the Qt commerc…

An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to the next time magnitude to get the true number. 1 day converts to 3.14 weeks. He had learned the har…

「Windows 8 Enters the Final Phase Before Release 」 Microsoft announced Wednesday it was releasing Windows 8 to its manufacturer partners. That means it’s all done tweaking and finalizing the operating system, which is now ready to be inc…

「With 50M Videos Indexed, Showyou Relaunches Its iPhone App With A New Back End And Easier Sharing」 When the Showyou app first launched last spring, it was a bit of a revelation. The iPad app made discovering and watching videos on the i…

Why Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hotter Than Apple's iPad For once, an Apple product isn’t the hottest piece of hardware on the scene. This week, at least, that highly enviable status goes to Google ‘s new Nexus 7 tablet . According to repor…

「Flash Deals Site Totsy Lands $18.5M To Take On Zulily In The Battle For Shopping Moms」 It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Totsy, which, for those unfamiliar, was one of the first flash sales sites to focus exclusively on mothers. T…

「Google TV Needs To Decide: Platform Or Closed Ecosystem」 Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andy Liu, CEO of BuddyTV Guide, a channel guide app available on iOS, Android and Google TV. There is no debating that consumer adoption of …

「Don’t Delete Your Stupidity. Fix it. Facebook Rolls Out Comment Editing and Edit History」 No more “Arggh! Copy, delete, paste, edit, post.” Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit comments, but users will be able to see the full…

「Apple vs. Microsoft: Today is Windows Phone 8 day」 FORTUNE -- "I am going to go out on a limb," Al Hilwa, IDC's applications software analyst wrote Monday after Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled its answer to Apple's (AAPL) iPad, "and say that …

「Europe Offers to Let Google Settle Potential Antitrust Charges」 European Commission warned Google on Monday that the company might have abused its dominant position in online searches, but it gave Google a chance to settle an antitrust …

「Samsung’s Galaxy S III Has Been Pre-Ordered Over 9 Million Times Worldwide」 As if anyone needed any more proof that the Samsung’s Galaxy S III would sell like (slightly more expensive) hotcakes, a report from the Korean Economic Daily r…

「App Engine search, rock-tossing chimp, man vs. beast」 Google App Engine has a well-deserved reputation for regularly adding cool new features and other improvements. This week the team launched full-text search , which has been a hotly …

Google, once again, is making a push into the living room. It is a destination the search giant tried — and failed — to reach when it first brought out its Web-enabled Google TVs in 2010. The goal all along has been to bring Google’s searc…

「Fridaygram: Doodle competition, nasty prehistoric fleas, cupcake map」 Everybody likes Google Doodles, those creative modifications of the Google logo that appear every so often on google.com and other Google search homepages. To let bud…

Elegance, refinement, exclusivity: These are qualities only to be expected at any high-end Japanese restaurant. Affordability? Think again. Or, rather, think different. That's the way to approach Yoshihashi. One of Tokyo's most elegant and…

Noda lauds crisis workers in visit to Fukushima Kyodo FUKUSHIMA — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Thursday visited the leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant — his first trip to the prefecture since taking the reins of power. News photo Ra…

The far-out Ogasawaras Their selection as a World Heritage Site will only add to the lure of Tokyo's subtropical isles By C.W. NICOL The Ogasawaras are a group of lovely subtropical islands about 1,000 km due south of Tokyo, from where the…

S.&P. Downgrades Debt Rating of U.S. For the First Time By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and ERIC DASH WASHINGTON  Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a down…

Miyagi beef cattle shipments barred By MASAMI ITO Staff writer The government ordered a complete ban Thursday on all shipments of beef cattle from Miyagi Prefecture after detecting radioactive cesium above the government limit in some loca…

Moving pictures: The work of the "godfather" of manga, Osamu Tezuka, is now available in English to be read on iPad tablet computers. Tezuka on iPad represents shift in manga biz By PATRICK W. GALBRAITH Special to The Japan Times Manga is …

Onward and upward: Nahomi Kawasumi gets a lift from her teammates after scoring the third goal in Japan's 3-1 win over Sweden in the semifinals of the Women's World Cup in Frankfurt on Wednesday. KYODO PHOTO Kawasumi double sends Japan int…

'The Hangover Part II' Yet more proof that booze kills your brain cells By GIOVANNI FAZIO Any serious drinker knows that feeling of waking up in the morning so desperately hungover you feel like a reanimated corpse, and the groaning, quive…

Osaka takes early lead in summer fun By REIMI DASDEB Staff writer Mythical lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi are eternally separated by the Milky Way. But once a year, they reunite and Japan celebrates this meeting via an event called Tanabata.…

Share | Friday, June 17, 2011 Perfect catch: The incredibly tender ayu tawara-age (deep-fried sweet fish, right) and maguro yukke (Korean-style tuna "carpaccio," below right) are two highlights of Kamozou's menu. Below left: Whatever you o…

Tsutenkaku Tower to get LEDs Kyodo Hitachi Ltd. will replace most neon lights for its advertisements on Osaka's signature Tsutenkaku Tower with light-emitting diodes in a bid to cut electricity consumption by half and contribute to nationw…

Nadal and Federer to Meet in Final By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY PARIS — It was a January night in Melbourne, Australia. Roger Federer had just been beaten in three tight sets by Novak Djokovic, and suggestions of decline were filling the room. “L…

HOTELS & RESTAURANTS Monthly yoga, diet plan in Tokyo The Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo will offer a monthly special accommodation program called Karada (Body) Happy Stay for women who want to get a taste of a different lifestyle. In cooperation…

Farmers' touch brings peas and quiet to Tokyo By ROBBIE SWINNERTON Where does the food on our plates come from? Who grows it and how does it reach our tables? It's almost impossible to know, even when we're at home cooking for ourselves. E…