Bus driver terrorizes passengers with expressway e-mail
A bus driver is in hot water after he terrorized passengers by reading and sending e-mail from his mobile phone while at the wheel of the moving vehicle, his employer admitted Wednesday.
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Teacher knees boy in head over text messaging
A private high school teacher has been issued a reprimand after he kneed a student in the head after he had been sending e-mail during class, Sendai Board of Education officials said.
KDDI leads rivals in May subscriber additions
Japan’s second-largest wireless operator KDDI Corp. led its bigger and smaller rivals in customer additions last month as the carrier said it added 162,000 net customers in May, ending the month with 18.23 million total customers.
Japan Telecom – Guessing Game
British mobile giant Vodafone has Japan on tenterhooks by continuing to remain mum on its deal to sell the core fixed-line business of the Japan telecom group to Ripplewood Holdings or other buyers.
Sony launches new Palm OS devices
Sony Japan has announced two new Clie handhelds, the NX80V and NX73V. The NX80V features a 1.3 Mega pixel camera with a Flash, Palm OS 5, 200 Mhz processor, 32 Mb of RAM, backlit keyboard and a CF card slot. The NX73V has similar features with a lower resolution camera.
Fujitsu Launches New Hard Drive for High-End Mobile PCs
Fujitsu Limited today announced the global release of a new high-performance hard disk drive for high-end mobile PCs, the MHT20xxAH, which features a storage capacity of up to 80Gb and a rotational speed of 5400rpm in a 2.5″ compact form factor.