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Japanese Giants To Cooperate On Linux
News Twenty-three Japanese firms have allied to cooperate on developing new Linux operating systems for electronic devices, say reports Thursday. The Japanese consumer electronics companies hope to develop a Linux inspired open OS which can be modified...
[July 13, 2000, 13:51]
Japanese Telco Looks To Linux
News Japanese cellphone service provider NTT DoCoMo is urging its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cellphones, in a milestone for the operating system's acceptance by the wireless industry. DoCoMo intends Linux as a cost-saving measure for its...
[December 4, 2003, 9:00]
L-Ceps Personaltrainer Japanese (Linux, OS X)
Downloads L-Ceps Personaltrainer Japanese is designed for learners without or with little previous knowledge of the Japanese language. The comprehensive program contains 30 lessons and is comparable to 1-2 years of teaching.
[May 26, 2008, 12:33]
Linux Arrives For Original PlayStation
News Following high demand for Sony's Japanese release of Linux for the PlayStation2 game console, another company has leapt into the fray: the Czech firm Blokman Trading, which has released an alpha version of the Linux 2.4 kernel for the original...
[June 1, 2001, 11:02]
Linux-based PDA Debuts In Japan
News Sharp has announced a new Linux-based handheld for the Japanese market. Although there is a tendency for Japanese companies to introduce a product in Japan before bringing it to the United States and Europe, US representatives of Sharp said Monday...
[June 25, 2002, 9:15]
Linux PDA Has Wi-Fi, Camera And Phone
News A Japanese firm is launching a Linux-based handheld computer sporting Wi-Fi, a mobile phone and a camera, the result of collaboration between China, Korea and Japan. According to Japanese newspaper The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the new PDA (personal...
[April 28, 2003, 9:23]
UPDATE: Small Step For IBM, Giant Leap For Linux
News IBM announced Thursday what it called the biggest ever commercial use of Linux, inking a deal to outfit a Japanese convenience chain called Lawson with more than 15,000 IBM eServers running the alternative operating system.
[November 3, 2000, 8:09]
Sony To Launch PlayStation2 Linux For UK
News Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) says it will release a Linux-enabled version of its PlayStation2 video game console for the UK and other markets following a Japanese launch over the summer. Sony launched Linux for the PS2 in Japan in June, in...
[October 23, 2001, 15:34]
Sony Releases Linux For PlayStation2
News The Linux release is only for the Japanese market, and I'm not aware of any plans to offer it in America or Europe," said a spokesman for Sony. However, it will only be compatible with Japanese versions of the console at this stage.
[April 26, 2001, 15:48]
Asian Powers Seal Operating System Plan
News Firms should make more use of non-Windows operating systems such as Linux, rather than developing a totally new operating system, according to Japanese officials quoted by AP. The pact was announced by Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma at the...
[September 8, 2003, 10:25]
PalmSource And Orange Team Up For Mobile Linux Standards
News And a Japanese company, Access, is acquiring PalmSource. However, CELF is aiming chiefly for the Japanese market and Lips chiefly at Europe, he added. PalmSource, Orange and several other companies plan on Monday to announce an effort to...
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
MontaVista Wants To Put Linux On Your TV
News MontaVista, whose software is used in personal video recorders from NEC and Sony, will also take advantage of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to announce that its software is used in a new Panasonic video phone sold to Japanese...
[January 8, 2003, 9:02]
Q&A: PeopleSoft CTO On Linux And Enterprise Software
News When Japanese carmakers came to the USA, they said better cars meant better quality and reliability. and the Japanese took market share very quickly. PeopleSoft's chief technology officer, Rick Bergquist, tells ZDNet Australia's Simon Sharwood why...
[May 21, 2003, 9:25]
Cray Supercomputer Will Draw Power From Sun
News In February, the company ended a long-running legal action against Japanese supercomputer makers, receiving a $25m investment from NEC and signing a ten-year deal to sell the Japanese company's SX vector supercomputers.
[March 29, 2001, 10:06]
A Year Ago: Linus Goes Turbo In Japan - Number 1 OS
News The research, published by US-based Business Computer News, gives TurboLinux Workstation J 4.0 a massive 24% share of the current Japanese OS market -- way ahead of Windows 98, Macintosh and all other Linux OSs.
[July 28, 2000, 7:01]
DoCoMo 3G Deal Makes Symbian Big In Japan
News Linux is used extensively in the (Japanese) consumer electronics industry, and some manufacturers are looking at extending the use of Linux into the mobile phone world," Bancroft said. Hutchison 3G has already launched a 3G service in the UK, known...
[September 26, 2003, 12:25]
Turbolinux Reaches Out To Microsoft
News Turbolinux, a Japanese seller of the open-source operating system, has bridged a philosophical divide by licensing Microsoft technology for playing digital music and video. The rationale was that the majority of Japanese Web sites are using Windows...
[April 28, 2004, 8:50]
News Schmooze: MOM Wants You To Pay Microsoft
News Mind you, one Linux device already has the dubious honour of being "big in Japan", as they say.namely Casio's Crusoe-based micronotebook dual-booting Linux and Windows, worshipped by the Japanese as a "cult item".
[May 11, 2001, 14:29]
Linux Key To Robot Development
News What the world needs now, according to a Japanese research group, is a low-cost programmable robot. Choromet, which bears a striking resemblance to the Transformers character Optimus Prime, comes with programmable software that runs on Linux.
[July 17, 2006, 9:25]
MicroImages TNT Products
Downloads The interface, database text content, messages, map production, and all other internal aspects of TNTmips have been localized for use in 27 languages including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish. All this capability is available in a single...
[July 8, 2004, 4:16]
