Yahoo Japan Corp. announced Thursday that it has decided to take a 100% stake in Softbank IDC Solutions Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Softbank Corp.
Yahoo! Japan now operates Net businesses without having its own data centers, which prevents it from leveraging U.S. Yahoo! Inc.'s proprietary technologies to efficiently run a crowd of servers.
By owning data centers by itself, Yahoo! Japan is planning to drive its cloud computing business more than ever before.
Sat February 21, 2009
Yahoo! Japan to acquire Softbank IDC Solutions
Tue February 17, 2009
Cisco Linksys to leave Japan's market
Cisco Linksys, a vendor that provides communications devices for consumers, announced on February 13 that it will withdraw from Japan's market.
Cisco Linksys ceased the sale of its products in Japan that day, but continues to support its existing customers.
Cisco Linksys, being successful in the U.S., falls behind the Japanese major vendors such as Buffalo Inc. and I-O DATA Device, Inc. in Japan, especially in the sales at home appliance volume retailers.
Fri February 13, 2009
Softbank BB operates as NTT's dealer
Softbank BB Corp. entered into a distribution agreement with NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp. on the sale of NTT's FTTH services on February 6.
Softbank BB will begin to provide its service, Yahoo! BB Hikari with Flet's, based on the agreement on February 18.
The service is to sell through Softbank BB's distribution channel assuming that it is provided bundled with NTT's FTTH lines such as B Flet's, Flet's Hikari Premium, and Flet's Hikari Next.
Thu February 12, 2009
Newspaper articles during Meiji period get on the Net
The Yomiuri Shimbun, one of the major newspaper publishers in Japan, began to provide its Yomidas Rekishi-kan (readout history museum) service on February 10.
The service lets you retrieve and view the newspaper articles issued from the Meiji period to today on PC via the Internet.
The service is targeted for colleges, libraries, and companies, costing ¥27,300 or more a month.
Wed February 11, 2009
MNO and MSO teams up to achieve FMBC (1)―Cellphone works as entrance to CATV
KDDI Corp. and Japan Cablenet (JCN) Ltd. started to collaborate in order to make JCN's services more available through KDDI's cellphone on February 10.
For the cellphones, as the first step in the collaboration, they released the dedicated display, JCN Original Main Menu, on February 10, which allows the user to directly connect to JCN's portal website on her/his cellphone.
Sat February 07, 2009
Google Japan has changed its top page
Google Japan Inc. renewed the top page of its website on Thursday.
The page is original with Google Japan.
One of the original features is that it shows the latest top five of the most retrieved key words.
The key words shown are updated every 20 minutes.
Sat January 31, 2009
Acer to launch netbook with 10.1-inch LCD
Acer Japan announced Thursday that it will release new Aspire one lineups in February.
The Aspire one sports a 10.1-inch LCD―an 8.9-inch one packing in the predecessor―and comes in four colors of black, blue, red, and white.
