Japanese wireless content providers are laying the groundwork to bring their wireless content services to the European market, starting with Spanish wireless operator Telefónica Móviles SA, according to Mitsui & Co. Ltd.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Monday started shipping a 1.3GHz version of its budget Duron processor, which is aimed at mainstream business and home PC users.
L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. has signed a licensing deal with Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (DNP) of Japan, the first of a series to provide Bluetooth designs based on Ericsson technology to third-party manufacturers, Ericsson announced Friday. The two companies hope the deal will speed development cycles for Japanese companies building consumer devices with Bluetooth.
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile telecommunication carrier, plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the London Stock Exchange on March 1, according to a report in the Friday morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.
Fujitsu has developed a prototype 40G-bps (bits per second) optical transmitter module for DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) systems and will start sample shipments of the product in March this year, the company announced Wednesday.
Hitachi will roll out a wearable PC and companion head-mount display for business users in February, the company announced Tuesday.
Hitachi will roll out a wearable PC and companion head-mount display for business users in February, the company announced Tuesday.
Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (NMESI), which was opened in July last year in Tokyo, has a new employee -- a humanoid robot developed by Honda Motor Co. Ltd.'s named Asimo, which will earn a ¥20 million [m] (US$151,412) annual salary. The director of the museum issued an official announcement of orders to Asimo -- at the entrance ceremony on Sunday.
Toshiba unveiled Tuesday a headset/microphone combination which contains an embedded Bluetooth chip, enabling the user to send voice commands wirelessly to PCs, home appliances and audio devices. The new product will be sold commercially later this year Toshiba said.
Sony Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Victor Company of Japan Ltd., France Télécom SA, Scientific Atlanta Inc. and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's U.S. unit filed a lawsuit last Friday against Dell Computer Corp. for a patent infringement of MPEG2 video compression technologies, a Sony spokesman and a Mitsubishi spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
NEC will delay the launch of its PocketGear PDA (personal digital assistant) for the second time, the company announced Tuesday.
VeriSign will tie up with a Japanese company to bring in a new service aimed at simplifying access for Japan's wireless Internet users, the local partner J-Data Co. Ltd. announced Tuesday.
Fujitsu, its affiliate Internet service provider (ISP) Nifty and Internet access provider eAccess will launch IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) networks for their ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) users on a trial basis, the three companies announced Monday.
Sharp and Tohoku University have developed technology that enables flash memory to hold more than 16G bits of memory, 250 times more than the current 64M-bit flash memory on the market, they announced on Tuesday.
Fujitsu on Thursday began shipping samples of a new memory chip designed to be used in small mobile devices, such as third-generation (3G) mobile phones, the company said.