Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the completion of a multi-terabit ...
Tags: Cable, Transport Network
Alcatel-Lucent's revenue remained flat during the first quarter, although the company made a smaller loss than a year earlier. Sales for the quarter totalled €3.1 billion (US$4.29 billion as of 31 March, the last day of the period ...
Tags: Computer Products, Cellphone, IT
A high-tech collar attachment that will allow pet owners to monitor their dogs at a distance, checking how much they sleep and how many calories they are burning, was unveiled Thursday in Japan. NTT Docomo, the country's largest mobile ...
Tags: Dog Collar, Consumer Electronics, Collar
ESO's New Technology Telescope has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different ...
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has partnered with chemical company Toray Industries to develop Hitoe, a nanofibre-laced clothing line that uses conductive fibres to measure heart rate. Hitoe, which means ‘one layer’ in the ...
Tags: Smart Clothing, Apparel
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that Australia Japan Cable (AJC) - a ...
Tags: Infinera, InP, PIC, Australia Japan Cable
As the surprisingly rough start of trading this year suggests, continued gains in Japanese stocks are premised on a delicate balance of factors. For the first time in six years, the market did not ring in the New Year on Monday, the ...
Tags: Global Economy, Japan
Have you ever called your cellphone carrier to report poor signal strength? Sure you have. And did that carrier do anything significant to fix the problem? Of course it didn't—unless you live in South Korea. "I guarantee ...
Tags: mobile traffic, 4G, LTE-Advanced technology, wireless networks
Apple yesterday signed a deal with China Mobile which could see it offer the iPhone to over 760 million Chinese customers from January. The company already sells its phones in China through two other carriers in the country – China ...
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Still waiting to get 4G? That's old hat: EU is already thinking about 5G. Revealed by European Commission recently, Neili keluosi, digital agenda commissioner of EU, will announce the foundation of 5G PPP(Public-Private-Partnership) ...
Japan’s largest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo is to offer new iPhone models announced by Apple on Tuesday, after resisting offering Apple’s smartphones for many years. The carrier said on Wednesday that the iPhone 5s and ...
Tags: iPhone, mobile carrier
Apple just can’t keep a secret these days. “There’s been a thorough leaking of Apple’s most likely plans,” said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research (TBI), on what Apple will unveil ...
Tags: iPhone 5C, Electronics
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, has announced that Ryo Nakao from NTT Photonics Laboratories (NTT) is using ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The shake-out of the mobile phone market has continued with the news that Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to discontinue making smartphones. It comes a week after its rival NEC announced a similar withdrawal. However, ...
Tags: mobile phone, Panasonic
Japan's Pioneer has launched a car navigation system that uses heads-up displays and virtual reality to guide drivers. Pioneer's new car navigation system includes a heads up display that mounts on the ceiling and uses a laser to ...
Tags: Car Navigation, Pioneer, Heads-up Displays