Japan Computer Industry Scan articles from August 2003

Japan Computer Industry Scan archives from August 2003

3 firms develop next-generation encryption technology.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... TOKYO, July 28 Kyodo Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) said Monday they have jointly developed a next-generation encryption technology for exchanging electronic data and documents. ...

Matsushita, Picsel tie up on browser, file-viewing device.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... TOKYO, July 28 Kyodo Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it has entered into a licensing agreement on the use of Internet browsing and file-viewing devices of British embedded software provider Picsel Technologies Ltd. ...

Sony to equip mobile video game handset with wireless LAN.(Sony Computer Entertainment's PSP )(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) will equip its planned mobile video game handset, the PSP, with a wireless local area network (LAN) mechanism to enable users to play video games from locations far apart and...

Novell Japan to sell new system on software management.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... TOKYO, July 30 Kyodo Novell Japan Ltd., the Japan arm of U.S. software firm Novell Inc., said Wednesday it will put on the market on Aug. 6 a new computer system that will allow companies to centrally manage various software for each...

Japanese clothing maker to sell Michael Jackson brand clothes.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... GIFU, Japan, July 30 Kyodo Japanese clothing maker Wakita Co. has signed an agreement with a trademark agent of pop singer Michael Jackson to manufacture and sell men's clothing carrying the Michael Jackson brand via men's clothing...

Fujitsu, IBM Japan develop low-cost supercomputers: daily.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... TOKYO, July 31 Kyodo Fujitsu Ltd. and IBM Japan Ltd. each have succeeded in developing low-cost supercomputers, a major business daily reported Thursday. In both cases, the companies were able to develop the machines with high...

Broadband subscribers rise to 10.93 mil. in Japan.(Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications report)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... TOKYO, July 31 Kyodo The number of subscribers to broadband Internet access services in Japan came to 10.93 million as of June 30, a rise of 451,000 over the preceding month, the government said Thursday. The number had eclipsed the...

Toshiba to provide mail-sorting system to Sweden post.(Toshiba Series TT-1000)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 4 Kyodo Toshiba Corp. said Monday it has won a contract worth $12 million to provide the Swedish postal services with advanced mail-sorting equipment. In June 2004, the Japanese electronics maker will start delivering...

Sony to release TVs with high-speed Internet access.(Sony KDE-P42HZ1 and KDE-P50HZ1)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 4 Kyodo Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc. said Monday it will release two digital high-definition plasma TV models with high-speed Internet access this fall. The 42-inch KDE-P42HZ1 will be put on the market on Sept. 10 and the...

Nintendo posts 11.45 bil. yen in 1st-qtr group net profit.(2008)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 5 Kyodo Video game console and software maker Nintendo Co. said Tuesday its group net profit came to 11.45 billion yen in the April-June period. Nintendo said its performance was boosted by sales of its Game Boy Advance...

Oki, NTT Electronics tie up in optical component business.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 5 Kyodo Oki Electric Industry Co. and NTT Electronics Corp. said Tuesday they have agreed to tie up in the optical communication device business and began integrating their production lines the same day. The two companies...

5 Japan PC makers to sell PCs with Windows XP Media Center OS.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 6 Kyodo Microsoft Co., the Japan arm of Microsoft Corp., said Wednesday five of Japan's major computer makers will start selling personal computers (PCs) equipped with the Japanese version of the Windows XP Media Center Edition...

Sony to license Samsung to produce Memory Stick cards.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 6 Kyodo Sony Corp. said Wednesday it has agreed to license Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea to produce and sell its Memory Stick, a small memory card medium. Samsung is expected to start production of Memory Stick...

Sega posts 1.89 bil. yen net profit in 1st qtr.(through March 2004)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 7 Kyodo Video game maker Sega Corp. said Thursday it posted a consolidated net profit of 1.89 billion yen in the April-June quarter, or 25.2% of its net profit projection for the current business year through March 2004. ...

NEC to sell 3.5 mil. shares in NEC System Technologies.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 8 Kyodo NEC Corp. said Friday it will sell 3.5 million shares in NEC System Technologies Ltd., a subsidiary that specializes in computer software development. The sale is to coincide with the subsidiary's listing on the...

Internet worm targeting Microsoft systems spreads worldwide.(Brief Article)
August 18, 2003... NEW YORK, Aug. 12 Kyodo A new computer worm targeting Microsoft operating systems is spreading rapidly through the Internet and has affected about 125,000 computers worldwide, Symantec Corp. said Tuesday. The worm dubbed ''Blaster'' or...

NEC lands Turkish order for broadband telecom equipment.(Brief Article)
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 13 Kyodo NEC Corp. said Wednesday it has obtained an order from Turkey Telecom Industries (TTI) for its next-generation broadband telecommunications equipment. The Multi-Services Access Platform (AM31) supports Ethernet, IP...

'Blaster' worm hits police computers 10,000 times in 24 hours.(Brief Article)
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 13 Kyodo A computer virus targeting Microsoft operating systems made about 10,000 attempts to access Japanese police computers between 2 a.m. Tuesday and 2 a.m. Wednesday, the National Police Agency said. About 3,300...

Almost 400 'Blaster' worm reports in Japan, mostly from firms.(Brief Article)
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 13 Kyodo A total of 386 reports of damage from the ''Blaster'' computer worm that attacks Windows operating systems were reported in Japan by Wednesday night, the Japan unit of Trend Micro Inc. said. The major vendor of...

Hitachi, HP extend technology pact on data storage devices.(Brief Article)
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 14 Kyodo Hitachi Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said Thursday they have agreed to extend their joint technology cooperation agreement and original equipment manufacturer relationship for high-end data storage devices...

Subscribers to Yahoo! BB ADSL service top 3 mil.(Brief Article)
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 14 Kyodo The number of subscribers to the Yahoo! BB asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) high-speed Internet access service operated by the Softbank group exceeded 3 million Thursday, Internet investor Softbank Corp. said...

METI sets up phone contact point to handle Blaster crisis.(Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 14 Kyodo The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) said Thursday it will set up Friday a phone contact point at the ministry to deal with inquiries about the ''Blaster'' computer virus. The ministry also said it...

Microsoft blocks 2nd wave of attacks by Blaster worm.
August 18, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 16 Kyodo Microsoft Corp. engineers successfully managed to avoid a second wave of attacks from the Blaster computer worm, which has infected more than 250,000 computers worldwide, computer experts said Saturday. The worm...

Nokia acquires Sega's U.S. unit.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... NEW YORK, Aug. 19 Kyodo Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and Japanese game maker Sega Corp. said Tuesday they have agreed on Nokia's purchase of a Sega subsidiary in the United States. Nokia will acquire Sega.com Inc., an...

Crosswave Communications files for court protection.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 20 Kyodo Crosswave Communications Inc., a Tokyo-based provider of data communications services for corporate clients, said Wednesday it has filed with the Tokyo District Court for protection from creditors under the Corporate...

Microsoft to hand out 200,000 vaccine CDs for Blaster, variants.
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 20 Kyodo Microsoft Co., the Japan unit of Microsoft Corp., said Wednesday it will hand out 200,000 free virus vaccine software CDs to fix computers infected by the Blaster virus and its variant MSBlast.D, possibly from this...

Rakuten posts record revenues, operating profit in 1st half.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 21 Kyodo Rakuten Inc., operator of an Internet shopping mall, said Thursday it posted record group sales and operating profit in the January-June first half of the current business year. Sales surged 78.0% from the same...

Microsoft warns of 3 new flaws in Internet Explorer.
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 21 Kyodo Microsoft Co., Japanese unit of U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp., issued a warning Thursday about three new flaws in its Internet Explorer program that may allow a computer worm to infect computers. One of the...

Microsoft to provide free CDs from Wed. to beat Blaster worm.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo Microsoft Co. said Friday it will provide free software CDs starting next Wednesday to counter the Blaster computer worm that has infected numerous computers worldwide. The CDs will be distributed at electrical...

Konica Business Machines, Minolta Sales to merge Oct. 1.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. said Friday its group marketing firms Konica Business Machines Japan Co. and Minolta Sales Co. will merge into a new company Oct. 1. The new firm, Konica Minolta Business Solutions...

NEC sets world record for processing speed of server.(with NEC TX7/i9510 )(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo NEC Corp. said Friday it has set a world record for the running speed of a computer server with its Intel Itanium processor-based TX7/i9510 model. The 32-processor server runs at 171.61 GFLOPS or giga...

New computer virus spreading rapidly.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 22 Kyodo A new computer virus is spreading rapidly following the widespread infection of computers with the ''Blaster'' and ''MS Blast D'' worms, the government said Friday. More than 100 reports and inquiries related to...

NEC, Fujitsu, others to boost output of IP telephony devices by 30%.(Brief Article)
August 26, 2003... TOKYO, Aug. 24 Kyodo NEC Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and two other major communications equipment makers plan to increase production of Internet protocol (IP) telephony devices to meet demand from large companies to build in-house IP telephony...