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RSS japaneseJapanese national ID system hits first glitch
News Japanese authorities were not concerned about the hiccup, stating that because the names of people were not included in the wrongly-mailed information it would not cause a problem. Individuals are being given a personal 11-digit identification... [07 Aug 2002]
Japanese set data tranmission speed record
News However, unlike the CERN-Caltech effort which involved a distance of over 7,000 km, the 24 October Japanese trial took place between the Fujisawa and Yagami campuses of the privately-run Keio University. [04 Nov 2003]
Japanese corporates back consumer Linux
News Over 20 Japanese high-tech firms have formed a consortium to develop a Linux-based operating system (OS) for consumer products. The Japanese consortium is following a trend that has already been established, as Linux has been heavily deployed in... [14 Jul 2000]
Japanese want to stamp out 'digital shoplifting'
News Japanese bookstores are sick and tired of female browsers who snap pictures of magazines with their camera-phones and want to put a stop to it. The incensed bookstore owners call this "digital shoplifting" and the Japanese Magazine Publishers... [01 Jul 2003]
5 years ago... Japanese electronics giants struggle with half year results
News 28.10.98: In an ominous signal that the Japanese economy could be following its South East Asian and Russian counterparts, electronics giants Hitachi and Toshiba have filed disappointing half year results. [28 Oct 2003]
Japanese firm honours '90 per cent off' PC blunder
News A company spokesman told Kyodo News, a Japanese newswire, that the company prefers to "place emphasis on public trust". Shoppers had a spot of luck in Japan recently when Marubeni Corporation mistakenly listed a new PC at 10 per cent of its actual... [12 Nov 2003]
Balancing Economic Growth With Well-Being: Implications of the Japanese Experience
White Paper In Japanese and Asian development, human capital was essential, especially in accumulating technology through learning by doing. Social capital also played an important role, through mutual trust within the general public and thorough cooperative... [14 Jul 2005]
Japanese bank makes £402m investment in Welsh utility
News Welsh utilities giant Hyder is to be taken over by Japanese investment bank Nomura in a deal worth £402m. The bank has created a management vehicle called St David's Capital to run the ailing water company, which has recently suffered from poor... [19 Apr 2000]
Vodafone opts for Japanese camera phones
News Vodafone is set to order most of its camera phones from Japanese manufacturers. According to Japan's third largest mobile operator J-Phone, its UK-based parent company Vodafone will be ordering the handsets equipped with cameras from various... [17 Jul 2002]
Developer worries see WAP turning Japanese
News Developers behind the wireless internet protocol, WAP, have been forced to accept its failings and incorporate the technology of Japanese rival, i-mode as a combined version of WAP and i-mode technologies is to hit Europe next summer. [10 Jul 2000]
Large Scale Collocation Data and Their Application to Japanese Word Processor Technology
White Paper Word processors or computers used in Japan employ Japanese input method through key-board stroke combined with Kana (phonetic) character to Kanji (ideographic, Chinese) character conversion technology. [12 Apr 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Pricey Blackberry, Vodafone's Japanese adventure and Consignia
Comment Vodafone goes Japanese Tis the season of ripening blackberries and, perhaps in an attempt to tune in with nature, MmO2 (formerly BT Cellnet) has finally released its first Blackberry handheld mobile email devices. [24 Sep 2001]
Microsoft goes into overdrive on Japanese Xbox launch
News Microsoft is revving up its marketing juggernaut for its biggest challenge yet - the release of its Xbox video game system to the Japanese market. Sony Computer Entertainment sold more than one million PlayStation 2 consoles in the first 10 days... [21 Feb 2002]
Linux gets big Japanese boost
News A division of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT has joined a Linux advocacy organisation and said that it will further invest in the open source operating system. NTT Data Intellilink, the systems integration arm of NTT, said last Thursday that... [29 Sep 2003]
English-Japanese Example-Based Machine Translation Using Abstract Linguistic Representations
White Paper This paper describes an example-based English-Japanese machine translation system in which an abstract linguistic representation layer is used to extract and store bilingual translation knowledge, transfer patterns between languages, and generate... [24 Jan 2005]
