Asia Online targets North American and Aust businesses
Aiming at companies doing business online in Asia, Asia Online will expand its internet communications business in North America and Australia.
Aiming at companies doing business online in Asia, Asia Online will expand its internet communications business in North America and Australia.
Aiming at companies doing business online in Asia, Asia Online will expand its internet communications business in North America and Australia.
Aiming at companies doing business online in Asia, Asia Online will expand its Internet communications business in North America and Australia.
Computer giant NEC will be hit with a multibillion-yen loss when the company releases its mid-year fiscal report expected later this month, according to a report in a leading business daily yesterday.
To meet the booming demand here for data services over mobile devices, Japanese telecommunications carriers are scrambling to bring out next-generation mobile broadcasting technology by early 2001, according to the nation's largest mobile providers.
Intel Corp. made another move to bolster its telecommunications and networking products today when it announced a tie-up with Oki Corp. to jointly develop and market IP (Internet Protocol) telephony products.
"Even though Intel started as a semiconductor maker, it is focusing more on telephony products as indicated by this deal with Oki," Intel Japan President Nobuyuki Denda said here today.
Intel and Japanese communications equipment maker Oki Electric Industry will announce today a joint project to build VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) hardware, according to an OKI spokesman.
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned travellers and Japanese residents abroad to be ready for "inconveniences" arising from the Y2K computer problem over the New Year holiday.
Pooh-poohing recent rumours that Sony's much-anticipated PlayStation 2 would run on the open-source Linux operating system, a spokeswoman at Sony yesterday said Linux is only being used in the development of the company's new gaming console.
IBM Japan will provide single-charge online banking services for the country's smaller banks beginning in October, the company said here late last week.
Consumer electronics maker Sony is getting into the telecommunications business.
Bandwidth on the Internet is increasing by leaps and bounds, but is still constrained by technological bottlenecks and high access charges, according to a Nortel Networks executive speaking here late last week.
Fujitsu said yesterday that it has set a new world record for hard-drive storage technology with a new magnetic recording technology that can hold over 20 billion bits (G bits) of information per square inch.
Japan's largest computer vendors said yesterday that they are preparing year-end contingency plans to assist customers with the year 2000 (Y2K) problem.