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Japanese customs dish out free dope Airport sniffer dog test goes 'awry' Japanese customs have very agreeably handed out 142g of cannabis to an unwitting passenger at Tokyo's Narita airport during a drugs-busting test operation "went awry".… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Japanese customs reunited with lost dope Passenger hands over surprise stash Japanese customs have been reunited with the 142g of cannabis they mislaid at Tokyo's Narita airport during a drugs-busting test operation, Japan Today reports.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who painstakingly coordinated our interview, a typical salarym Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum : Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum : Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Activists claim rough tactics in battle with Japanese whalers - Guardian Unlimited KVALActivists claim rough tactics in battle with Japanese whalersGuardian Unlimited - 3 hours agoThe battle of wills between Japanese whalers and environmentalists in the Antarctic took a dramatic turn yesterday when two members of the marine conservation group Sea She Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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DISH gets HD boost with successful satellite launch NEW YORK (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp's plans to roll out more high definition video channels received a boost in the early hours of Wednesday after the successful launch of its EchoStar XI broadcast satellite. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Dope-crazed Canadians sledgehammer iPhone Reefer madness The fanboys among you of delicate sensibilities are advised to look away now, because it's just come to our attention that dope-crazed Canadians last Saturday used the Toronto Freedom Festival as a platform to lay into an iPhone with a sledgehammer:… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Transform Yourself in a Dressing Room for Hire Many Japanese gals lead double lives: Mild-mannered students in plain-Jane uniforms by day; French maids, furries, and goth Lolitas by night. Legions run around Tokyo, wheeling suitcases full of makeup and costumes. But Superman had a phone booth — where are schoolgirls supposed to su Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Transform Yourself in a Dressing Room for Hire Many Japanese gals lead double lives: Mild-mannered students in plain-Jane uniforms by day; French maids, furries, and goth Lolitas by night. Legions run around Tokyo, wheeling suitcases full of makeup and costumes. But Superman had a phone booth — where are schoolgirls supposed to su Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Japanese browser maker taking on IE, Firefox A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its Web browser in the hope of carving out a 5 percent share over the next few years of a market dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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PMC to Do Tech Work for U.S. Customs Performance Management Consulting of McLean will develop an updated computer infrastructure for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under two contracts totaling $25 million. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > WashingtonPost |
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Customs, Travel and Tech Privacy Coming back to the U.S. with a laptop? Customs may sniff around a bit. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Internet.com |
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Swedish customs pull Frenchman with two asses You got a permit for those, mate? A wandering Frenchman came to rue the day he ever attempted to get his two asses into Sweden, after customs officials demanded a veterinary examination of the pair costing €250, the Local reports.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Customs raids tech trade show Armed agents search for patent infringers IFA An intrepid Reg Hardware hack was this morning stopped from looking around MSI's stand at the consumer electronics show IFA, in Berlin. The uniformed gents he mistook for overly officious security guards were in fact German Customs officers investigat Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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German customs raid Hyundai at Berlin tech fair BERLIN (Reuters) - German customs police raided South Korea's Hyundai IT Corp in Berlin on Saturday, seizing flat-screen televisions from its stand at IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics fair. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Reuter |
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Aussie Customs in presentational-aid crackdown Prang peril pointers fingered Australian customs officials have made their first seizure of possibly-deadly "high intensity" laser pointers under newly introduced federal regulations. Some 1,200 of the fearful photon weapons were intercepted in the crackdown.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Customs warns of killer consoles Dodgy Nintendo DSs Customs is warning shoppers looking for bargains this Christmas not to be fooled into buying fake Nintendo DS and DS Lite machines.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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A Brief Tour of the Japanese Web I'm sitting in a smoky room on the second floor of a Tully's Coffee in Western Tokyo, looking over the shoulder of Ichiroo Kiyota as he types on his laptop. Kiyota, an executive at Six Apart Japan, is showing me around some of the most popular — and useless — Web apps in the countr Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Japanese delay won't stop Euro PSP Skype launch, says Sony VoIP on your console The launch of a version of Skype running on Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) will still go ahead in Europe and the US later this month, despite a delay affecting the software's Japanese roll-out.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |