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RSS japaneseVirtual car shop boosts online drive
News The increasing number of Internet car dealers is expected to push prices down, with competition likely to accelerate as restrictions on Japanese imports into the EU are lifted at the end of the year. Camden Motors is launching a virtual version of... [10 Aug 1999]
Linux poised to be a big hit in Japan
News Linux could take the Japanese server market by storm, according to IDC's latest report. The report also highlighted Microsoft's success in the Japanese market. The research firm predicts the open source operating system will rise from its current... [13 Jul 1999]
Staunch CE supporter, Sharp, to use Symbian
News The report claims the deal will see the OS incorporated in the Japanese company's Zaurus machine - called the DHC 4600 in Europe - from the start of next year. Symbian's EPOC operating system may soon find its way onto Sharp handhelds, according to... [12 Jul 1999]
Murdoch learns to love the Net
News But last week, Murdoch's News Corporation launched a major new media investment fund along with Japanese high-tech conglomerate, Softbank. Although the Japanese company's software and publishing holdings have at times disappointed, Softbank founder... [05 Jul 1999]
News Corp and Softbank to launch Net ventures
News News Corp and the Japanese giant will work together through a joint venture, eVentures. Rupert Murdoch - one time Internet sceptic - yesterday inked an agreement that will see News Corporation and Japan's Softbank bring US Internet companies to the... [02 Jul 1999]
Japanese chip giants form alliance
News Hitachi and NEC Corp, the Japanese chip giants, have announced an alliance to develop DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips. The joint venture is aimed at reducing production and development costs, and the two companies believe the increased... [24 Jun 1999]
Autobytel is turning Japanese
News US online car dealer, Autobytel is part of a consortium preparing to launch a Japanese dealership site. The move - and the increase of online car traders in general - will come as bad news to Japanese car manufacturers, which are struggling to... [18 Jun 1999]
Dialog teams up with Fujitsu
News Dialog Corporation has formed an alliance with Fujitsu that will see all hardware and network appliances from the Japanese technology giant installed with Dialog's InfoSort software, the electronic data filing and categorisation system. [09 Jun 1999]
Compaq launches e-cash application
News Kcom, the Internet arm of Japanese telco, Kokusai Denshin Denwa, is supporting Compaq's venture. Compaq has launched a commercial version of its e-cash technology, NetCoin, in Japan. NetCoin allows users to pay for low-cost online items such as MP3... [08 Jun 1999]
Matsushita enters Symbian alliance
News Japanese owned Matsushita has invested £22m for an 8.8 per cent stake in Symbian and joins existing members Psion, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia. Efforts to make Symbian's Epoc technology the operating system of choice for wireless devices were... [25 May 1999]
Ericsson lands NTT mobile contract
News Ericsson has signed a deal to supply Japanese telco, NTT DoCoMo with third generation mobile phones and base station systems. The systems will be based on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) technology, which allows the transmission of... [29 Apr 1999]
BT and AT&T buy into Japanese market
News The deal was widely publicised at the end of last week, but in the past 24 hours it has emerged Japan Telecom will become the Japanese arm of BT and AT&T's international joint venture. AT&T Jens, BT Communication Services and BT.NIS - the... [26 Apr 1999]
Fujitsu breaks speed barrier
News The Japanese giant says the system has a peak performance of 9.6Gflop/s per processing element (PE) and a 4.9Tflop/s for a system with a maximum configuration of 512 PEs. Fujitsu is claiming to have released the world's fastest CMOS (Complimentary... [20 Apr 1999]
Kyocera invests in Iridium future
News Japanese-owned Kyocera has released six wireless products including a single mode handset, dual mode adapter and a pager that supports 19 languages. Troubled satellite mobile phone company, Iridium, received a boost yesterday when Kyocera... [19 Apr 1999]
Liffe takes another step online
News Next month, the exchange plans to begin online trading of index futures and German and Japanese bonds, with the full rollout due to be completed by August. Liffe (The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) has begun to trade... [13 Apr 1999]
