Tokyo, Japan, Aug 6, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) and NEC Magnus Communications Ltd. today announced that Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) will implement a large-scale internet protocol (”IP”) telephony system including NEC’s UNIVERGE(R) SV7000, a SIP-based IP telephony server, and 9000 IPtermSIP85 IP phones.

NEC’s collaboration middleware, UNIVERGE OW5000, provides open application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate voice and data systems and enables the new system to link Microsoft(R) Office applications with telephone functions, providing click …

Tokyo, Japan, Aug 1, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - KDDI is pleased to announce that KDDI ‘Global Powered Ethernet’, a data service for commercial customers, will expand to include Korea from August.

KDDI ‘Global Powered Ethernet’, an international wide-area Ethernet service, enables intranets linking several centers to be constructed economically. This enables communication between overseas centers, the volume of which is growing, to be achieved with high quality at reasonable cost.

KDDI’s ‘Ethernet Service’, rated the best in the Japanese market for the last four years in …

Tokyo, Japan, July 27, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that for the purpose of executing unified and effective promotional marketing activities, it will establish a new Corporate Branding Division on August 1, 2007.

New Corporate Branding and Advertisement departments will be grouped with the existing Customer Satisfaction Department under the Corporate Branding Division.

Masao Nakamura, President and Chief Executive Officer of DoCoMo, will be appointed Managing Director of the division and Yuji Araki, Senior Vice President, will be Deputy Managing …

Tokyo, Japan, July 27, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries today announced that subscribers committing to a two-year contract will receive an immediate 50% discount on basic monthly charges, expanding the cost savings provided under the billing plans for families and individuals - “Fami-wari MAX” and “Hitoridemo Discount” - unveiled in June. The respective plans will now be known as “Fami-wari MAX 50″ and “Hitoridemo Discount 50″.

The original Fami-wari Max plan granted each subscriber the discount rate of the longest-subscribing family …

Tokyo, Japan, July 23, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - According to “The Mobile TV Insight Report” released today by the Mobile Consumer Lab at the International University of Japan, current Mobile TV services run the significant risk of achieving unprofitable financial returns, and may fail to attract widespread usage amongst mobile phone subscribers. In fact, the results outlined in this report show that Japan’s One-Seg users appear to be lowering their usage of the most profitable mobile phone services including Voice and Email, which suggests that troubles could lie ahead for the Mobile TV industry.