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PostgreSQL Android Application Contest

MasPoster — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:11:34 +0000

PostgreSQL is having a contest to create an open source PostgreSQL application for the Android OS. The prize is a brand-new Nexus One phone donated by Google.

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Timeline

April 25, 2010: contest announced
July 6, 2010: entries due
PDXPUG Day, OSCON, July 19: winners announced

Prize

Winner: Brand-new developer version (unlocked) Nexus One phone from Google.
All participants who complete an app will get a Postgres 9 shirt.

See the Android App Contest wiki page for details.

“Bing” market share in home is only 2%, accoding to a recent survey in Japan

MasPoster — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:13:19 +0000

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 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%).

japan.internet.com: すでに全体の2％のユーザーが、「Bing」を主な検索エンジンとして使用している

Google Releases Japanese Input Method Beta

MasPoster — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:29:03 +0000

Using the vast information available on the world wide web, Google is able to collect vocabularies and phrases. During character input, Google is able to calculate and suggest the best words or phrases.

The software was started by two Japanese 工藤拓 Tokushi Kudo and 小松弘幸 Hiroyuki Komatsu using their “20% time” in Google, and then more engineers were involved.

Apart from the new Japanese input method, Google also have Chinese Pinyin Input Method (simplified Chinese), which is also able to input traditional Chinese.