Line (software), the Glossary
Line is a freeware app and service for instant messaging and social networking, operated and developed by the Japanese company LY Corporation, co-owned by SoftBank Group.[1]
Table of Contents
99 relations: Android (operating system), Anime, Apache HBase, Bangkok, Becky (television personality), BlackBerry OS, Censorship, Chrome Web Store, Citizen Lab, CNN Business, Comics, Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients, Comparison of instant messaging protocols, Comparison of IRC clients, Comparison of LAN messengers, Comparison of VoIP software, Digital wallet, Dr. Mario World, Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman, Email, Emerging market, Emoji, End-to-end encryption, Enon Kawatani, Firefox OS, Forbes, Freeware, Google Chrome, Google Chrome App, Great Firewall, Hacker, Initial public offering, Instant messaging, IOS, IPad, IPadOS, Japanese Red Cross Society, Kakao, KakaoTalk, Koei Tecmo, Korea JoongAng Daily, Kyodo News, Line Corporation, Line Friends, Line Manga, Line TV, List of SIP software, List of video telecommunication services and product brands, LY Corporation, MacOS, ... Expand index (49 more) »
- SoftBank Group
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Apache HBase
HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java.
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Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
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Becky (television personality)
, better known mononymously as, is a Japanese entertainer signed to GATE.
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BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS was a proprietary mobile operating system developed by Canadian company BlackBerry Limited for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices. Line (software) and BlackBerry OS are BlackBerry software.
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Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
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Chrome Web Store
Chrome Web Store is Google's online store for its Chrome web browser.
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Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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CNN Business
CNN Business (formerly CNN Money) is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN.
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.
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Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients
The landscape for instant messaging involves cross-platform instant messaging clients that can handle one or multiple protocols. Line (software) and Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients are instant messaging clients.
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Comparison of instant messaging protocols
The following is a comparison of instant messaging protocols.
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Comparison of IRC clients
The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of notable IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent, reliable prior published sources.
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Comparison of LAN messengers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable LAN messengers.
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Comparison of VoIP software
This is a comparison of voice over IP (VoIP) software used to conduct telephone-like voice conversations across Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. Line (software) and comparison of VoIP software are VoIP software.
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Digital wallet
A digital wallet, also known as an e-wallet or mobile wallet, is an electronic device, online service, or software program that allows one party to make electronic transactions with another party bartering digital currency units for goods and services.
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Dr. Mario World
was a 2019 match-three mobile game developed and published by Nintendo in collaboration with Line Corporation and NHN Entertainment.
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Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman
Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) is a key agreement protocol that allows two parties, each having an elliptic-curve public–private key pair, to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
Emerging market
An emerging market (or an emerging country or an emerging economy) is a market that has some characteristics of a developed market, but does not fully meet its standards.
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Emoji
An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.
End-to-end encryption
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a private communication system in which only communicating users can participate.
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Enon Kawatani
, known by the stage name, is a Japanese musician.
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Firefox OS
Firefox OS (project name: Boot to Gecko, also known as B2G) is a discontinued open-source operating system made for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, and dongles designed by Mozilla and external contributors.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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Freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.
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Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google.
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Google Chrome App
Google Chrome Apps, or commonly just Chrome Apps, were a certain type of non-standardized web application that ran on the Google Chrome web browser.
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Great Firewall
The Great Firewall (GFW) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically.
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Hacker
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means.
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Initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.
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Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
IPad
The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.
IPadOS
iPadOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. for its iPad line of tablet computers.
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Japanese Red Cross Society
The is the Japanese affiliate of the International Red Cross.
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Kakao
Kakao Corporation (카카오) is a South Korean Internet conglomerate headquartered in Jeju City.
KakaoTalk
KakaoTalk, commonly referred to as KaTalk in South Korea, is an instant messenger and online services platform operated by Kakao Corporation. Line (software) and KakaoTalk are Android (operating system) software, BlackBerry software, communication software, cross-platform software, iOS software, instant messaging clients and Windows Phone software.
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Koei Tecmo
is a Japanese video game, amusement and anime holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Koei and Tecmo.
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Korea JoongAng Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily is the English edition of the South Korean national daily newspaper JoongAng Ilbo.
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Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.
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Line Corporation
was a Japanese Internet company.
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Line Friends
Line Friends (stylized as LINE FRIENDS) are featured characters, invented by South Korean designer Kang Byeong Mok, based on the stickers from diverse applications of the South Korean internet search giant Naver Corporation and the Japanese messaging app Line.
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Line Manga
is an online manga and webtoon platform and smartphone app operated by Line Corporation (now LY Corporation).
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Line TV
Line TV is a video-on-demand, over-the-top media service owned by Japan-based Line Corporation but operating mainly in Taiwan, and previously Thailand.
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List of SIP software
This list of SIP software documents notable software applications which use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as a voice over IP (VoIP) protocol. Line (software) and list of SIP software are VoIP software.
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List of video telecommunication services and product brands
This list of video telecommunication services and product brands is for groupings of notable video telecommunication services, brands of videophones, webcams and video conferencing hardware and systems, all related to videotelephony for two-way communications with live video and audio.
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LY Corporation
, trading as LYC, is a Japanese internet company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group of Japan, and Naver Corporation of South Korea, founded in 2023 by the merger of Z Holdings, and four subsidiaries including Line Corporation and Yahoo! Japan. Line (software) and LY Corporation are SoftBank Group.
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MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi (previously Mainichi Daily News, abbreviated MDN), and publishes a bilingual news magazine, Mainichi Weekly.
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Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
Megabyte
The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Milk & Mocha
Milk & Mocha are two bear characters popular on many forms of social media.
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Ministry of Communications and Informatics
The Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika; abbreviated as Kominfo) is an Indonesian government ministry that is responsible for communications, information affairs and internet censorship.
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Mobile network operator
A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a mobile network provider, wireless service provider, wireless carrier, mobile network carrier, or cellular company, is a telecommunications provider of services that sells, delivers and maintains mobile telephony services to an end user.
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Naver
Naver (stylized as NAVER) is a South Korean online platform operated by the Naver Corporation.
Naver Corporation
The Naver Corporation is a South Korean internet conglomerate headquartered in Seongnam that operates the search engine Naver.
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New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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NHN Japan Corporation
NHN Japan Corporation is the Japanese subsidiary of NHN Entertainment Corporation.
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Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
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Nokia Asha series
Nokia Asha is a discontinued series of low-end feature phones and smartphones produced and marketed by Nokia.
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Personal computer
A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
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Red Shirts (Thailand)
The Red Shirts are a political movement in Thailand, formed following the 2006 coup d'état which deposed then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Roskomnadzor
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor (RKN), is the Russian federal executive agency responsible for monitoring, controlling and censoring Russian mass media.
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Service account
A service account or application account is a digital identity used by an application software or service to interact with other applications or the operating system.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
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Shūkan Bunshun
is a Japanese weekly tabloid (shūkanshi) based in Tokyo, Japan, known for its investigative journalism and frequent clashes with the Japanese government.
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Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
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Smartwatch
A smartwatch is a portable wearable computer device in the form of a wristwatch.
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SMS
Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
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A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
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SoftBank Group
is a Japanese multinational investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo which focuses on investment management.
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Super-app
A super-app (also known as an everything-app and also written as super app or superapp) is a mobile or web application that can provide multiple services including payment and instant messaging services, effectively becoming an all-encompassing self-contained commerce and communication online platform that embraces many aspects of personal and commercial life.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Taxi
A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.
Tech in Asia
Tech in Asia is a Singapore- and Jakarta-based technology news website covering topics on startups and innovation in Asia.
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Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible computer.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
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The Asahi Shimbun
is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan.
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The Korea Economic Daily
The Korea Economic Daily, nicknamed Hankyung, is a conservative and business daily newspaper in South Korea.
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The Korea Times
The Korea Times is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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Tokyo Stock Exchange
The, abbreviated as Tosho (東証) or TSE/TYO, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly referred to as Uber, is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport.
Video on demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.
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Virtual goods
Virtual goods are non-physical objects and money purchased for use in online communities or online games.
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Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls for the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
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Webtoon (platform)
Webtoon (stylized in all caps) is a South Korean webtoon platform launched in 2004 by Naver Corporation, providing hosting for webtoons and compact digital comics.
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Windows Phone
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.
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Yahoo! Japan
is a Japanese web portal. Line (software) and Yahoo! Japan are SoftBank Group.
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Z Holdings
was a Japanese internet holding company owned by A Holdings, a joint venture between SoftBank Group and Naver Corporation. Line (software) and z Holdings are SoftBank Group.
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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region.
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2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
The were a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 (16:25 UTC on April 15) beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about, and a foreshock earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 at 21:26 JST (12:26 UTC) on April 14, 2016, at a depth of about.
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See also
SoftBank Group
- Arm Ltd.
- Asian Super Grid
- Disney Mobile
- DoValue
- DramaFever
- Fortress Investment Group
- Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
- GA Bunko
- GungHo Online Entertainment
- Impark
- Italfondiario
- Joint Innovation Lab
- LY Corporation
- Likewize
- Line (software)
- Pepper (robot)
- Rapidus
- SB Creative
- SBI Graduate School
- SBI Group
- SoftBank Capital
- SoftBank Group
- SoftBank Telecom
- SoftBank Tomatoh Abira Solar Park
- SoftBank Vision Fund
- Sprint Corporation
- TAT-14
- Yahoo! Japan
- Yahoo! Kids
- Ymobile
- Z Holdings
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(software)
Also known as LINE (application), Lianwo, Line (app), Line Messenger, Line Pay, Line app, Line.me.
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