Japan

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 | 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 …

Reuters | March 28, 2011 | 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, …

Reuters | March 28, 2011 | Ju-min Park and Isabel Reynolds * Samsung, Sumitomo in $72 mln LED wafer venture * 50/50 venture to start production from early 2012 * Samsung …

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 …

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. …

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 …

ChinaDaily | March 19, 2011 | 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 …

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 …

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 * …

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. …

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.

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