The Nation | April 4, 2011 | Â Usanee Mongkolporn
Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo is interested in testing 4G wireless broadband technology in Thailand, said Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
He added that the company had expressed its interest to him.
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Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. released some stats about its network's restoration following the massive earthquake which hit the country last month.
Reuters | March 30, 2011 |Â Chikako Mogi
(Reuters) – Japanese imports of rare earths fromChina shrank further in February, sliding 36 percent from January, data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance showed on Wednesday.
Imports of rare earths from China stood at 1,138 tonnes in February, down...
Reuters | March 30, 2011 |Â Chikako Mogi
(Reuters) - Japanese imports of rare earths fromChina shrank further in February, sliding 36 percent from January, data from Japan's Ministry of Finance showed on Wednesday.
Imports of rare earths from China stood at 1,138 tonnes in February, down...
Reuters | March 28, 2011 |Â Gowri Jayakumar
Hurt by Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, IT vendors NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have decided to refrain from making personnel and organizational changes, previously scheduled for April 1, the Nikkei business daily reported.
NEC, which had planned to reassign...
Reuters | March 28, 2011 |Â Ju-min Park and Isabel Reynolds
* Samsung, Sumitomo in $72 mln LED wafer venture
* 50/50 venture to start production from early 2012
* Samsung sees LED wafers in short supply due to strong LED demand (Adds details, background)
SEOUL/TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters)...
iSupply | March 21, 2011 | Len Jelinek
The Japanese earthquake has resulted in the suspension of one-quarter of the global production of silicon wafers used to make semiconductors. Manufacturing operations have stopped at Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.’s Shirakawa facility. MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. also...
Stevenage, UK— March 23, 2011- (Virtual Press Office) —Aeroflex Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX), announced today that it has worked closely with NTT DOCOMO, INC. to support the successful testing, rollout, and launch of their Xi LTE network. Aeroflex...
Stevenage, UK— March 23, 2011- (Virtual Press Office) —Aeroflex Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp. (NYSE:ARX), announced today that it has worked closely with NTT DOCOMO, INC. to support the successful testing, rollout, and launch of their Xi LTE network. Aeroflex...
Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Yoree Koh
Masayoshi Son is not a member of the fearless Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue Squad that departed Monday for the troubled northern pocket of Japan. But the famously energetic chief executive and founder of Softbank...
ChinaDaily | March 19, 2011 |Â Edmond Lococo
BEIJING - Huawei Technologies Co, the world's second-biggest maker of mobile-phone networks, said it completed its first shipment of "essential" communications equipment to Tokyo since the earthquake in Japan.
Technical teams from Huawei are working to help repair and...
ITU | March 16, 2011 | Press Release
Re-establishing communications vital for search and rescue in tsunami-affected areas
Geneva, 16 March 2011 — ITU has dispatched emergency telecommunications equipment to areas severely affected by the tsunami that struck the coastal areas of Japan following Friday’s devastating...
AUSTIN, Texas-Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale) and Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced this week that the catastrophic earthquake in Japan has disrupted manufacturing operations for both companies, which have facilities in Japan.
Soon after the disaster, prices of semiconductors for...
Japanese carrier NTT Docomo has decided to cancel its participation in the CTIA WIRELESS tradeshow in the aftermath of the powerfully destructive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11.
“In this time of crisis, it is imperative that we focus our full energy on the...
Qualcomm Inc. says it does not foresee any significant impact to its semiconductor supply chain after last week’s earthquake in Japan and says it shouldn’t have a problem in continuing to supply product to its customers.
Reuters | March 16, 2011 | Niklas Pollard and Tarmo Virki
* Possible tech sector equivalent of Lehman Bros -analyst
* Ericsson sees no material impact on Q1 sales
* Alcatel-Lucent says has enough inventory for now
* Chipmaker STMicro sees possible Q1-Q2 revenue hit
(Adds STMicro sticking to...
BBC News | March 16, 2011
Apple has postponed the launch of the iPad 2 tablet in Japan, as the country struggles to recover from the recent earthquake and tsunami.
Originally planned for 25 March, the company said its launch had been delayed indefinitely.
Many technology firms...
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. has decided to cancel its participation in the CTIA Wireless tradeshow in the aftermath of the powerfully destructive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11.
Austin American Statement | March 14, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf
Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday that one of its three semiconductor manufacturing operations in Japan suffered "substantial damage" from last week's massive earthquake and that it will affect the company's revenue in the first and...
ABC News | March 15, 2011 | BRETT LEVY and RONNIE REISS
Google has set up a new service to help people reunite with those missing since Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Google Person Finder allows people all over the world to set up profile...
ABC News | March 15, 2011 | BRETT LEVY and RONNIE REISS
Google has set up a new service to help people reunite with those missing since Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Google Person Finder allows people all over the world to set up profile...
This week marks Twitter's fifth birthday. Since it was first launched to the public, the micro-blogging service has noticeably changed the way we broadcast, organise and digest information.
Reuters | March 14, 2011 | Noel Randewich
(Reuters) - Automakers, shipbuilders and technology companies worldwide scrambled to replace supplies after the disaster in Japan shut down production plants there and disrupted the global manufacturing supply chain.
Technology companies were especially affected since Japan accounts for...
