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Breaking
the Four Percent Barrier
Japanese clients
have just about the highest standards in the world, says Gateway Japan President
Derek Schneideman speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce Japan Marketing
Committee event at the Capitol Tokyu Hotel on Sept. 8. "We sure as hell better
know who we're talking to and what they're looking for."
--by Gail Nakada
 CORBA
-- The IT garage
Enterprise CORBA comes to Japan
The space available in your average garage is next to nil: it gets packed up with
lawnmowers, old tires, and broken tricycles. But when it comes to your company's
IT assets, you can avoid this problem -- thanks to CORBA
--by Dirk Slama and John
Sachen
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News Briefs
Major Tokyo
Telco Goes Down
A significant portion of Tokyo's telecommunication infrastructure ceased operating
around mid-day Tuesday, September 21st when the interface between NTT and Tokyo-based
TTNet went down.
Initial reports were sketchy, but TTNet customers in the Tokyo Metropolitan area were being told that incoming phone and data connections from NTT's network to TTNet's were not getting through. The cause of the disruption was not immediately known, nor were the number of customers affected.
Acording to engineers at TTNet Tokyo Network data center, the problem with the interface with the NTT network began at 9:50 a.m. All circuits came back online at 2:42 p.m. TTNet told CJ that only analog circuits were affected by the outage, mostly used for leased-voice and slow speed data.
TTNet is a subsidiary of the Tokyo Electric Power Company and is one of the first major competitors of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph to emerge early in the 1990s.
-- CJNN
Education Expo
'99
With over 50 booths, almost 60 presentations, close to 100 participating universities,
and an estimated 2,500 visitors, Education Expo '99 may indeed be "Asia's Largest
and Most Prestigious Academic Conference and University Fair." Hosted by the Distance
Learning Center (DLC) and KBA Japan International Study Institute, the first annual,
two-day (September 4 and 5) event held at Hokutopia featured a prestigious array
of educational opportunities for both foreigners in Japan and Japanese with an
eye towards studying abroad. For the latter, there were opportunities aplenty
with universities from as far away as Switzerland and Mexico, along with top-tier
US undergraduate and graduate schools like Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley. According
to DLC Director and Expo organizer Anthony Al-Jamie, "We were expecting more Japanese
students, but we're delighted to see so many foreigners with an interest in education."
In addition to
the theme of the main presentation, "The Film Industry and Its Contributions to
the Field of Education", fully 10% of the presentations were dedicated to IT-related
issues. Global Online Japan ("Internet Futures"), Newport Asia Pacific University
("Venturing on the Internet", "How to Do Business on the Internet") and LINC Media
-- CJ's parent company -- ("Online Marketing", "The Importance of Training and
Certification for Computer Professionals") all hosted some of the best-attended
presentations. Next year's conference will capitalize on this interest with the
theme "IT and its Contributions to Education." Again slated for September, Al-Jamie
enthused, "In addition to focusing more on graduate schools, we will be hosting
a range of high-tech companies as well."
-- Bryan
Shih in Tokyo
PSI Japan first
to offer 3rd party registrations
Procurement Services International, K.K. (PSI Japan) has become the first domain
name registrar in Japan to register Internet domain names ending in .com, .org,
and .net, and is now operating in both Japanese and English, according to the
company. For Japan-based website hosts, this means it is no longer necessary to
deal through either US-based Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI -- often mistakenly
referred to as "Internic") or a local re-seller. PSI Japan claims that this will
make regsitrations both more convenient and less costly. New customers can register
their domains in Japanese at http://domains.ne.jp
or in English at http://www.psi-domains.com/Register.
The site also offers a Whois check service, allowing proposed domain names to
be quickly verified for availablility. If the propsed name is available, registration
can be immediately completed, with payment accepted via online credit card billing
or bank transfer.
-- Bella
Katz
Venture planning
using the Net
In September, the Smart Campus Consortium, a group of five firms led by Mitsubishi
Research Institute and NTT East, will start an experiment using the Internet and
videophones to help potential entrepreneurs get started with their business plans.
The group wants to use network technologies to help those who live outside Japan's
major cities, or who lack strong personal networks, to attend seminars on entrepreneurship
and draft their own business plans. The consortium may invest in promising business
plans that grow out of the experiment, which will last until December, according
to a spokesperson.
-- CJNN
( Computing
Japan's News Briefs are derived from Digitized
Information, a news service in English for busy executives. See
a sampleof DigiNews. )
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