Coca Cola is launching a new coke in Japan, the “Coca Cola Zero free”. This 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...
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Tags: Coca Cola, Soft Drinks
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As the economy of China grows, the number of wealthy Chinese who can afford overseas holidays and top medical care also grows. Japan is trying to capture part of these markets in one go, pushing for travel tours that combine sightseeing and medical treatment to wealthy Chinese tourists. They are promoting tours that offer...
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Tags: China, Health Care, Japan
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DotNetNuke 5.3.1 release was focused on fixing 3 significant issues with the 5.3.0 release which caused the developer to remove the release from CodePlex and our DotNetNuke Support Network.
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...
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Tags: Content Management System CMS, DotNetNuke, The MIT License
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Nintendo announced their new generation Nintendo DS portable, the Nintendo 3DS. The new portable game unit will have 3D games with 3D images viewable with the naked eye. This will be the next generation of the Nintendo DS series which sold 125 million units worldwide. The new Nintendo 3DS will support games from the...
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Tags: 3D | Three-dimensional, Nintendo, Nintendo DS (Dual Screen)
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This is release to fix a security issue. A malicious user using a specially crafted URL could acquire web server privileges on systems running efront 3.5.x versions. There is a new 3.5.5 release to fix this security issue.
A patch is already available, all 3.5.x users are strongly recommended to download and apply it.
eFront is...
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Tags: Content Management System CMS
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A 46 years old man in Japan was arrested for violation of Copyright Act (Infringement of Public Transmission Rights), that is, putting copyrightable material on the World Wide Web or an FTP server etc, by providing links to uploaded music files in overseas storage site.
He was arrested in connection of personally creating a large...
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Tags: Japan
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MSI will reveal the world’s first large-sized 3D All-in-One touch screen PC in March in CeBIT.
3D effects are produced by a combination of 120Hz LED panel and Shutter Glass 3D glasses.
MSI will also showcase the new high-performance Wind Top AE2420 and AE2280 All-in-One PCs, 22- and 24-inch models that are equipped with the latest...
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Tags: 3D | Three-dimensional, CeBIT, HDTV High Definition Television, Taiwan
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The survey is conducted by Japan.internet.com and iBridge Research+ (Research Plus).
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...
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Tags: Baidu (百度), E-commerce, Google, Japan, Rakuten (楽天)
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OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 is now available for download.
OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 now has faster start up time, more support for Microsoft Office XML files, Postscript based OpenType fonts and Internationalization and Localizations etc.
There are many new features and improvements in Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, Base and Chart.
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Tags: Office Productivity | Office software | Office suite, OpenOffice.org
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Oracle had not offered an competing office productivity software in the past.
After the completion of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle lay down its office productivity products strategy.
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...
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Tags: Office Productivity | Office software | Office suite, OpenOffice.org, Oracle
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