
Hatsune Miku fans are rejoicing at the news that Miku has seized the top spot in the iTunes charts with her latest single.
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Apple tycoon Steve Jobs has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56.
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Chinese media are reporting that a youth was so desperate for an iPad that he sold a kidney to pay for one.
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Square Enix have finally given Japanese keen to brush up on their English the chance to do so in a suitably bishoujo-rich environment, in an English learning adventure game entitled “Summer Story.”
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Kodansha is telling mangaka they will get only 25% royalties on digital manga, if they deign to publish them – in spite of the fact publishers such as Amazon and Apple are offering rates as high as 70%.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 10, 2010 06:11 JST
- Tags: Apple, DS, Epic Games, iPhone, iPod, Keitai, Marketing, Nintendo, Technology

Epic Games has dismissed the 3DS as being unable to run its widely used Epic engine, whilst the 3DS has been unfavourably compared to the iPod Touch, making Nintendo’s upcoming handheld look increasingly underspecced and overpriced.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 14, 2010 04:29 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Apple, Bizarre, Crime, Kyoto, Law, Ninja, Police, Tourism, Weapons

Apple fuhrer Steve Jobs is reportedly enraged at having his ninja aspirations denied by Japanese customs, after they stymied his efforts to take shuriken out of the country on his private jet.
As retaliation he threatened he would “never come to a country like this again!”
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It seems it has been the PS3 which cracked the hacker, and not the hacker the PS3 – the major force behind cracking the PS3 has given up and retired in circumstances few could help but interpret as an abject admission of defeat at the hands of Sony engineers.
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Hayao Miyazaki, of Studio Ghibli fame, has launched into one of his trademark rambling tirades against the ills of technology, likening “iWhatever” users to “chronic onanists.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 7, 2010 08:07 JST
- Tags: Apple, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Internet, iPhone, Keitai, Marketing, Technology

Scores of iTunes users have had their accounts hacked and used to buy software, much of which was in the form of pirate manga apps. Some users report thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases.
Apple for its part only acknowledges banning some developers in connection with “fraudulent purchase patterns,” and then suggests cancelling any cards linked to a compromised account.
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Apple is already facing no less than three class action lawsuits launched by iPhone 4 users irate at the smartphone’s inability to function properly unless held in a Jobs-approved manner.
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The launch of Apple’s much anticipated iPhone 4 is fast turning into a debacle, with users discovering all manner of unwanted extra features, not least of which is the fact that the phone loses signal if held incorrectly, a problem which Apple blames on users…
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