Japan Computer Industry Scan articles from August 2004

Japan Computer Industry Scan archives from August 2004

Latest Mydoom computer worm attacks search sites.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... NEW YORK, July 26 Kyodo A rapidly spreading new variant of the Mydoom computer worm, which caused havoc by churning out infected e-mails earlier this year, attacked Internet search sites Monday like Google and Yahoo, a U.S. company that...

JVC finds glitch in DVD recorder, stops shipments.(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... TOKYO, July 28 Kyodo Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) said Wednesday it has found a glitch in its new DVD recorder model DR-MX1, which hit the Japanese market last Friday, and stopped its shipments. The trouble in the product, which...

Nintendo's net profit doubles in April-June qtr.(Nintendo Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... OSAKA, July 28 Kyodo Nintendo Co. said Wednesday its group net profit for the April-June quarter soared 97.7 percent from a year earlier to 22.64 billion yen due to brisk sales of game software. Nintendo said its sales of game software...

13 firms to devise specifications for playback-only 'Blu-ray Disc'.(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo The world's 13 major electronics makers said Tuesday they will draw up by Sept. 30 a set of technological specifications for ultra-large-memory prerecorded ''Blu-ray Disc'' videodisks whose functions will be limited to...

AVEX signs pact to offer music via mobile phones in China.
August 9, 2004... BEIJING, Aug. 5 Kyodo Japanese record company AVEX Inc. has signed an agreement with a Chinese wireless service provider to offer music via China's mobile phones, a publicist for wireless provider said Thursday. AVEX signed a...

REFILING: Avex signs pact to offer music via mobile phones in China.(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... BEIJING, Aug. 5 Kyodo (EDS: FIXING AVEX'S CAPITALIZATION TO CONFORM WITH KYODO STYLE) Japanese record company Avex Inc. has signed an agreement with a Chinese wireless service provider to offer music via China's mobile phones, a...

Vodafone saw 1st net decrease in subscriptions in July.(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 6 Kyodo Vodafone K.K. saw a net decrease of 3,100 subscriptions in July, becoming the first among the three Japanese major mobile phone companies to report a net decline in subscriptions, according to data released Friday by an...

Softbank incurs 17.88 bil. yen 1st-quarter group net loss.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 11 Kyodo Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it incurred a 17.88 billion yen group net loss in the April-June quarter of fiscal 2004 due mainly to larger promotion expenses for broadband Internet services and heavier interest...

Olympics: Net portal providers wooing viewers with Athens Olympics.
August 16, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 11 Kyodo Internet portal site operators have started offering a range of special services related to the Aug. 13-29 Athens Olympic Games, such as flash reports on game results, to lure more clients to their sites, the...

DoCoMo, 'au' to give mobile users call-recipients' new TEL numbers.(Brief Article)
August 16, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 12 Kyodo NTT DoCoMo Inc., the ''i-mode'' service provider, and KDDI Corp., the ''au'' service operator, said Thursday they will start a free voice-guidance service Sept. 1 in which people who called mobile phone users who...

BizTrend: Used PC market expanding rapidly.(MM Research Institute Ltd)
August 23, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 20 Kyodo The secondhand personal computer market is rapidly expanding as sharp growth in demand for new PCs sends relatively new ones to the used market. According to MM Research Institute Ltd., a survey company, about...

NTT unit to test power line communication.(Nippon Telegraph and Telephone)(Brief Article)
August 23, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 20 Kyodo A unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Friday it will start conducting a demonstration of a new broadband technology known as power line communication, which enables high-speed Internet access via...

Hitachi to replace defective AC adapters in 14,542 LCD TVs, monitors.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 23 Kyodo Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it will recall 14,542 television sets with liquid-crystal displays and LCD monitors for personal computers for free replacement of defective alternate-current adapters. The TVs and monitors...

K-Opticom to begin optical IP phone service for single-family homes.(K-Opticom Corp)(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... OSAKA, Aug. 23 Kyodo K-Opticom Corp. said Monday it will launch a fiber optics-based Internet protocol telephony service for single-family homes Sept. 1. While fiber optics-based IP phone services for multi-dwelling units are already...

Casio to market world's smallest digital camera with zoom lens.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 25 Kyodo Casio Computer Co. said Wednesday it will launch the world's smallest digital camera with a zoom lens in late September measuring only 79 cubic centimeters. Casio said it made its palm-sized Exilim camera smaller...

Record companies raided in cellphone ring-tone cartel.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 26 Kyodo Fair Trade Commission investigators searched Tokyo offices of major record companies Thursday on suspicion they blocked other firms from doing business in mobile phone ring-tone services. The record companies...

Internet provider ACCA confirms leakage of data on 339,000 customers.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 26 Kyodo High-speed Internet access provider ACCA Networks Co. said Thursday it has confirmed a leakage of information on 339,177 customers of the company. The leaked data include names, addresses, telephone numbers and...

Rakuten to take over Aozora Card for 7.4 bil. yen.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... TOKYO, Aug. 27 Kyodo Rakuten Inc., Japan's largest Internet shopping mall operator, said Friday it has reached a basic agreement to purchase the entire stake in card loan provider Aozora Card Co. from its owners for 7.4 billion yen. ...

Microsoft to launch next Windows in 2006.(Brief Article)
August 30, 2004... NEW YORK, Aug. 27 Kyodo Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will launch the next version of its Windows operating system, named ''Longhorn,'' in 2006. The software giant said the new OS will feature improved user productivity and...