NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country as part of a push to offer its cloud-hosting services worldwide. The company has opened ...
International roaming between carriers' Wi-Fi networks has come a step closer, with AT&T, Boingo Wireless, NTT DoCoMo and Orange completing network assessments as part of the Wireless Broadband Alliance's new interoperability program. ...
Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, has released to software developers and device makers the software development kit and source code for a new version of its operating system. The Tizen 2.0 release ...
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Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung, on Monday released the software development kit and source code for a new version of its operating system to software developers and device manufacturers. The Tizen 2.0 release ...
Smartphone maker BlackBerry says it has no immediate plans to sell its new handsets in Japan, but the company denied it was abandoning one of the world's most tech-savvy nations. Having fallen far behind Apple and lost ground to other ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Japan Market, smartphone
India’s Supreme Court has declined to alter its decision of changing Sistema‘s mobile licences for its mobile services joint venture, it was reported last week. The joint venture of the Russian conglomerate was one of several ...
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Apple sold more phones in Japan than any other manufacturer last year, rising above local manufacturers for the first time, according to a research firm. The report from Counterpoint Research, based in Hong Kong, said Apple had a 15% ...
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According to Japanese media, the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DoCoMo announced that it would launch a cheap tablet PC at a price of only 9,975 yen (about 709 yuan) in March this year. Despite the low price, the Tablet PC is ...
Tags: NTT DoCoMo, Low-cost tablet, tablet
NTT Docomo, Inc. announced that it will launch a friendly tender offer to acquire all shares of MAGASeek Corporation, the operator of the MAGASeek fashion-goods shopping website, with approval from its parent company ITOCHU Corporation. ...
With the latest generation of high-end smartphones sporting power-hungry 5-inch screens, a growing number of phone vendors are emphasizing bigger batteries rather than thinner devices. After HTC's introduction of a 5-inch, full-HD screen ...
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NEC Casio's forthcoming Medias W Android smartphone has two 4.3-inch touch screens arranged back-to-back on a hinge. The screen on the rear of the handset folds out to lay next to the main one, forming a larger 5.6-inch touch screen, ...
IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
Japan's biggest cellular network operator, NTT DoCoMo, is working with Intel and Samsung on development of the Tizen operating system and the first smartphone based on the platform could be out in Japan in 2013, according to a Japanese ...
Tags: NTT DoCoMo, Tizen operating system, smartphone, 2013
IDG News Service-If Japan's Softbank barges its way into the U.S.mobile market,expect contract prices to fall. The company,mostly unknown outside of Japan,is in negotiations to acquire a large chunk in U.S.operator Sprint Nextel,and ...
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IDG News Service - At the CEATEC show that opens in Japan this week, the country's electronics manufacturers will show a host of products that are probably a few years from catching on, as well as a few design concepts that will need a bit ...
Tags: high-definition TV sets, new concept TV, Ultra High-Def TVs, Smart INSECT