Coca Cola is launching a new coke in Japan, the “Coca Cola Zero free”.

This new coke has zero sugar, zero preservatives, synthetic fragrances as well as zero caffeine (caffeine-free), it contains zero calories.

It is marketed as a delicious new drink that adults enjoy when relaxing at night, for someone who cares about their health.

Coca Cola currently have several variety of coke in Japan:

• Coca Cola (regular coke): launched in March 1957, 45 kcal/100 ml
• Coca Cola Zero: originally launched in June 2007, went through two renewals, current form was relaunched in February 2010,  0 kcal/100 ml
  

  Coca Cola Zero

• Coca Cola Plus : with added vitamin, launched in January 2009, with 0 kcal/100 ml
  

  Coca Cola Plus

• Coca Cola Plus fiber: with added fiber, launched in October 2009, 0 kcal/100 ml
  

  Coca Cola Plus fiber

"Coca Cola Zero Free" will be available in Japan from 26 April 2010, the recommended selling price are:

• 350ml can for ¥120 (or in your currency)
• 500ml PET bottle for ¥147 (or in your currency)
• 1.5L PET bottle for ¥336 (or in your currency)

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Japan, a close neighbor of China, is trying to capture part of these markets in one go. Nishinippon Shimbun (West Japan Newspaper) reports that the Japan Tourism Agency is pushing for travel tours that combine sightseeing and medical treatment to wealthy Chinese tourists. They are promoting tours that offer travelers its advanced medical technology in diagnostics and treatments, at the same time, its famous therapeutic elements such as Japanese food and Japanese hot springs.

For fiscal 2010, their focus is on the China. They are planning to gathering information such as awareness and expectations about medial tourism in Japan and invite the media and travel agencies to visit Japanese medical facilities. Already there are plans to make information such as list of medical institutions that accept foreigners available to related parties, and investigating the possibility of a “Medical Visa”.

Naruto Strait, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Some local governments have already started their own programs. Tokushima Prefecture, in the eastern part of the Shikoku Island in Japan, already started pilot tours in late March. The tours features sightseeing to the famous whirling tides in the Naruto Strait (Japanese: 鳴門海峡), low calorie delicacy from local ingredients and diabetes screening tests.

Naruto Whirlpools

According to the Planning Division of the Prefecture Tourism Board, participants highly appreciated the smooth tests, they wanted to increase the type of medical tests available, however, there was not enough information or guide books in Chinese.

Yukio Hatoyama (Japanese: 鳩山由紀夫)

This is part of the New Growth Strategy announced by the Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama (Japanese: 鳩山由紀夫) on 31 Dec 2010. The target is to see 25 million foreign tourists to Japan from year 2020; and grow 30 million foreign tourists in the future.

Japan Tourism Agency, established on 01 Oct 2008, is an extra-ministerial bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.

Image Attribution:
NarutoStrait.jpg: Chris 73: CC-BY-SA-2.5
Naruto_Whirlpools_taken_4-21-2008.jpg : Hellbuny: CC-BY-SA-3.0

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Major Highlights:

• Issue fixed where Newsletter module only sent SMTP test email.
• Issue fixed with signature change to Synchronize Folders methods.
• Fixed the issue with the email notifications where the From and To addresses were swapped.

XML Module 04.03.05 has been updated in the 5.3.1 packages.

DotNetNuke is an open source platform for building web sites based on Microsoft .NET technology. It is written in VB.NET and distributed under both a Community Edition BSD-style license and a Professional Edition proprietary license.

The DotNetNuke Corporation provides an open source version of DotNetNuke called the Community Edition. It includes access to the source code of the framework and basic modules, and an MIT license allowing flexible modification and distribution rights. There are also business-oriented commercial editions of the software with premium functionality and technical support options.

DotNetNuke 5.3.1 was released on 24 March 2010 and is now available for download.

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eFront is a open source e-learning platform, also known as a Course Management System (CMS), or Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

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eFront has a Commercial Editions and a Community Edition, which uses the Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0 (CPAL). Latest version are v3.6.1 / build 6235 (released on 12 March 2010) and v3.5.5 / build 6301 (14 March 2010).

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He was arrested in connection of personally creating a large number of internet hyperlinks to copyrighted music files that were uploaded in MediaFire, a file storage site located outside of Japan. The links were posted in a web site called “Music Posting Elite Meeting Place”. The website was created using links collection (similar to bookmarks collection) service called “ALink”.

This is the first time that a person was arrested for violation of Copyright Act by providing and distributing links of illegal music files that were uploaded to an overseas storage site. This act of uploading music files to storage site outside of Japan in order to avoid Japanese legal system was viewed as a premeditated criminal act to infringe on copyright.

The copyrights of the music files concerned were managed by JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, Japanese:日本音楽著作権協会 ), which until 2001 was the sole musical copyright administration society. However, since October 2001, competitors were allowed to get into the copyright administration business in Japan.

According to JASRAC, this is a case of illegal distribution of music, acts like this hamper the development of music culture. They will continue stamp out illegal distribution on the net actively together with the police.

ALink is a service where the site creator and other viewers were able to freely enter links of other websites in format similar to a forum or BBS. The entered links are listed together so that they are easily accessible.

The ALink service is provided by UIC. The website UIC provides “Rental CGI Service”, which is mainly message boards or guestbooks in various forms. However, the site itself does not seem to be actively maintained. Their own copyright statement at the bottom of the screen was dated 2000-2003. The page to register a new account was dated 2007.

The ALink site “Music Posting Elite Meeting Place (Japanese: 曲貼り精鋭達のたまり場 )” in concern seems to have been closed.

The arrest was announced by the Hokkaido Prefectural Police and Sapporo Central Police Station on the 1st march 2010.

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The research surveyed 300 people between the age of 20 to 60, 49% male, 51% female. The age distribution is 18.7% in their 20’s, 33.2% in 30’s, 26.3% in 40’s, 12.7% in 50’s, and 9% in 60’s.

The survey asked people which search services they use as their main search engine at home the past year, since “Bing” entered the search engine market last year.
The results, Yahoo is 268 people (89%), Google 190 (63%), Infoseek Rakuten 78 (26%), while Bing is only 6 (2%).

Other main search being used at home in Japan are, goo 62 (20.6%), BIGLOBE 41 (13.6%), MSN 39 (13%), nifty 16 (5.3%), livedoor 12 (4%), Baidu 7 (2.3%), others 24 (8%).

When asked what they use as the main search engines at work, the result is, Yahoo 117 people (39%), Google 84 (28%), Infoseek Rakuten 17 (5.6%), while Bing is 4 (1.3%).

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OpenOffice.org 3.2 New Features:

General Improvements

Faster start up times

OpenOffice.org 3.2 Calc and Writer have both reduced ‘cold start’ time by 46% since version 3.0 was released just over a year ago (results will vary on different operating systems and hardware).

ODF Support

OpenOffice.org 3.2 is now more compliance with ODF 1.2, including closer conformance to OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specifications.

* As OpenOffice.org 3.2 currently requires a superset of the ODF 1.2 specification, the software now warns users when ODF 1.2 Extended features have been used.

* The document integrity check now proves whether an ODF document conforms to the ODF specification (this mainly affects ODF 1.2 documents). If an inconsistency is found, the document is treated as a broken one, and OpenOffice.org offers to repair the document.

Proprietary File Support

OpenOffice.org 3.2 provides improved support for other common office document types.

* Password protected Microsoft Office XML files (supported document types: MS Word 2007 documents (*.docx, *.docm); MS Word 2007 templates (*.dotx, *.dotm); MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsm); MS Excel 2007 binary documents (*.xlsb); MS Excel 2007 templates (*.xltx, *.xltm); MS Powerpoint 2007 documents (*.pptx, *.pptm); MS Powerpoint 2007 templates (*.potx, *.potm)).

* OLE objects, form controls and pivot tables can now be read from MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsb).

* Encryption support within the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP filter allows password protected Microsoft Word documents to be saved (using the Microsoft Office standard RC4 algorithm).

* Filters for AportisDoc and PocketWord now support type detection based on DocType. As a result, files in these formats can be loaded without explicitly selecting the document type in the file picker.

* When writing string data to SYLK files, embedded double quotes are no longer escaped by doubling; semicolons are now escaped by doubling. This improves compatibility with files created by other applications.

Support for Postscript based OpenType fonts

There are many high quality commercial and free OpenType fonts that are based on Postscript outlines. They are now supported for formatting, printing, PDF-export and display.

Writer

Mediawiki support moved to an Extension, to avoid conflicts.

Calc

Cell borders now support multiple selection

Previously it was only possible to apply cell borders to a single rectangular cell range. Now borders can be applied to any selection of cells.

Autofill now handles additional cases

If the starting cell for AutoFill contains a number at the start and the end, and there’s no space after the first number, the number at the end is now incremented. This allows easier creation of things like lists of IP addresses (10.0.0.1 is followed by 10.0.0.2).

Improvements to sort

If “Sort” is invoked with a selection that is likely not to be the range the user wants to address, a new dialog will ask if the selection should be extended to contain the additional cells.

When a cell range is sorted using the “Sort Ascending” or “Sort Descending” toolbar button, cell formats are now sorted with the cells.

Better handling of merged cells

Merged cells can now be pasted from the clipboard onto other merged cells.

Inserting or deleting cells, columns or rows into/from the middle of merged cells, which previously caused an error message, is now possible. The merged cell range is enlarged/reduced.

Complex copy and paste

Enhancements to statistical functions

Preservation of newline characters in formulas

Numeric conversion in strings

Additional functionality in filters

Many new factors in CONVERT_ADD

Calc convert_addThe CONVERT_ADD spreadsheet function (known as CONVERT in other applications) has many more conversion factors implemented, as defined in OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula.

New UNICODE and UNICHAR functions

Draw

New style comments

Page Count added to Draw

Impress

New style comments

Page Count added to Impress

Math

Change to Math menus

Base

Customizing the Create Database Wizard

Simpler copying of queries between database documents

Database forms can be zoomed

More intelligent import into Base

Chart

New Chart types

Usability improvements in Chart

Enhancements to data labels

Asian typography page for chart elements

Internationalization and Localizations

New Locale support

OpenOffice.org 3.2 adds locale data for Oromo_Ethiopia [om-ET], Uyghur_China [ug-CN], Ancient Greek [grc-GR], Somali_Somalia [so-SO], Sorbian, Lower [dsb-DE] and Upper [hsb-DE, Asturian_Spain [ast-ES], Yiddish_Israel [yi-IL], Arabic (Oman) [ar-OM], Sardinian_Italy [sc-IT, and Quechua (Ecuador) [qu-EC].

Japanese Name Order

In a Japanese Locale the order of the FirstName / LastName fields in the user data tabpage is reversed.

Support for Graphite font technology

OpenOffice.org now supports Graphite font technology for better support of scripts and variants used by minorities.

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A web cast by Michael Bemmer (GM, Oracle Office Global Business Unit), reiterate that OpenOffice.org will remain an open source application and Oracle will remain the main contributor of the community. There will also be web based office suite which can be integrated into the desktop version.

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Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Webcast Series: OpenOffice (4 min.)

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