Martyn Williams

Victor Company of Japan Ltd. (JVC) has developed a high-speed optical wireless transmission system for the home and unveiled a prototype here Tuesday at the Ceatec 2002 exhibition.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. will begin automatically filtering junk mail sent to the cell phones of all its subscribers from the beginning of October, the company said Tuesday.

Fujitsu Ltd. is to cut a further 2,100 people from its domestic payroll, the company said Thursday.

The fast-rising number of computer users connecting to the Internet via DSL (digital subscriber line) connections in place of dial-up telephone lines is leading to a sharp drop in the number of telephone calls being made in Japan.

Foreign companies anxious to grab a slice of North Korea's potentially large infrastructure market will be in Pyongyang, the capital of the reclusive east Asian nation, in mid-September for a first-of-its-kind trade exhibition.

It's 7a.m. in Tokyo. As millions of people reluctantly stir from a night's sleep to face the coming day, thousands of cellular telephones start to ring ... once.

IBM Corp. and Honda Motor Co. have jointly developed a voice-activated car navigation system based on IBM

Rick Belluzzo will take over as chief executive officer (CEO) of data storage systems company Quantum Corp. on Sept. 3, replacing outgoing CEO Michael Brown, the company said Thursday in a statement.