Attack takes down Yahoo for three hours
In what company officials are describing as a "fast" and "intense" assault on its network, the US-based Web sites of Yahoo and some of its companion sites were unreachable for around three hours on Monday.
In what company officials are describing as a "fast" and "intense" assault on its network, the US-based Web sites of Yahoo and some of its companion sites were unreachable for around three hours on Monday.
A day after the U.S. Web sites of Yahoo Inc. were targeted with a denial of service attack, Ebay Inc. and Buy.com Inc. have both said problems experienced by their Web sites today were due to similar attacks.
The data center market in Japan, which hardly existed six months ago, has become increasingly crowded in the last two months as major U.S. data center operators and local players alike have announced plans to enter the market.
NTT West Corp., a local loop telephone operator in western Japan, announced yesterday it has installed its three millionth ISDN (integrated services digital network) line.
When America Online Inc. announced plans to launch its service in Japan, the U.S. parent was full of hope for its new baby.
Shipments of personal computers in Japan in 1999 rose 31 percent to hit a record 9.2 million units, the Japan Electronics Industries Development Association (JEIDA) announced today.
Japan had just under 55 million mobile phone users at the end of January, according to data released today by the Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA).
Researchers from Japan's NEC Corp. have unveiled the prototype of a new microprocessor that they say could serve as the model for future processors for mobile devices.
Sony Corp. has strongly denied a Japanese newspaper report that says it intends to take a stake in one of the three major U.S. television networks.
NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) refused to comment today on weekend press reports that the company is about to make a bid for Orange PLC, the U.K. mobile telephone operator.
Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) today announced it plans to offer Japan's first Internet filtering service aimed at corporate users.
A new survey of the Japanese Internet marketplace has confirmed its position as number one in Asia, but provides a lower estimate of the number of people online than previous studies.
Korea Thrunet Co. Ltd., a Seoul-based provider of broadband Internet services, announced this week that the number of subscribers to its cable Internet access service passed 150,000 during January.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), a unit of Sony Corp., today announced that a group of real-world retailers and video game software producers are investing in its soon-to-be-launched online retail service company PlayStation.com (Japan) Inc.
NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) this week unveiled protypes at Net&Com 21 exhibition of new handsets, including phones that support the Java programming language, and others featuring wireless application protocol (WAP).