Bitcoin will become a legal method of payment in Japan in April this year. The change in legal status comes after a revision of the Payment Services Act passed a mandatory period of public consultation Read more…
ITEM: City authorities in Hiroshima are planning a smartphone app that uses augmented reality to show tourists what landmark buildings such as the Atomic Bomb Dome looked like before US forces dropped the atomic bomb Read more…
Panasonic has begun demonstration experiments with its autonomous delivery robot, HOSPI-R, which will perform tasks such as serving drinks and collecting used dishes in cooperation with the Narita International Airport Corporation and the ANA Crowne Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – A wave of start-ups is emerging in famously risk-averse Japan as cash-rich corporations increasingly delegate the task of keeping pace with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics to smaller, nimbler businesses. Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to build the world’s fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country’s manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop and improve driverless cars, robotics and Read more…
Direct carrier billing firm Boku says that carrier-billed subscriptions for music streaming service Spotify are now available across Japan’s three main carriers: NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and Softbank. That means that between all three operators, more Read more…
NTT DoCoMo and DeNA have jointly announced a trial in which they will use a 5G mobile system to provide remote monitoring and passenger assistance for self-driving vehicles. For the initial trial, a vehicle and a Read more…
Wireless multicast vendor Expway announced that NTT Group has launched what they’re billing as the first ever commercial Wi-Fi multicast service at the NACK5 Stadium Omiya football stadium in Saitama, Japan, home of the J.League Read more…
Singtel and TIS, a subsidiary of Japanese systems integration company TIS Intec Group, have announced a partnership to offer managed security services in Japan to help businesses build cyber resilience and protect critical infrastructure. Singtel’s managed Read more…
NTT says it has successfully deployed terabit-level MPLS transport functions for virtual networks using “white-box switches” (i.e. general-purpose communications equipment). NTT says it accomplished this using software that enables the use of MPLS functions required Read more…
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