Alphabet Inc.’s Google said Tuesday it would roll out a mobile YouTube application designed for India, boosting the search company’s presence in a burgeoning market with spotty internet access.Since the fall, Google has been conducting extensive tests in India of YouTube Go, which allows ...
Police last year eavesdropped on electronic communications in 10 separate investigations, the Justice Ministry said Friday. The cases led to 101 arrests.Nine of the cases were related to the alleged trafficking of illegal drugs, while the tenth involved an attempt on a person’s life, ...
Mobile carrier NTT Docomo Inc. plans to raise handset prices by around ¥10,000 to ¥20,000 so it can provide discounts to customers who use less data.
SoftBank plans to provide a new cut-rate pricing option for smartphone customers who neither talk for long periods nor use a great deal of data.
Since 2003, railways have asked passengers to turn off their mobile phones when near “silver” priority seats, for fear electromagnetic interference from the devices could interact with pacemakers, harming the wearer.After 12 years, the ban on phones, the validity of which researchers say has ...
A fire at a communications center has been blamed for crippling email services for millions of au brand mobile phone users since Sunday.KDDI Corp. and fire authorities confirmed the fire, which damaged equipment at the center, in Tochigi Prefecture, also caused its email servers ...
While conventional but feature-rich cellphones are still in demand in Japan, one SoftBank executive says don’t expect them to stick around forever.Known as “Galapagos phones,” a reference to the high number of endemic species on the islands off Ecuador, the devices often have functions ...
Since the iPhone debuted in Japan in 2008, SoftBank Mobile Corp. has been heavily promoting Apple smartphones, driving the growth of the telecom giant led by billionaire Masayoshi Son ever higher.So it seemed odd when Microsoft Corp.’s Japan head Yasuyuki Higuchi and SoftBank Mobile ...
Excessive use of mobile phones causes students to fare poorly in elementary, junior high and high school, not only because it makes them lose their concentration due to a lack of sleep, but also because it apparently compromises what they have studied, researchers say.Students ...
Mobile phone service operators will be required to remove carrier-specific restrictions, or SIM locks, on handsets starting Friday.The move is expected to spark price and service competition in the domestic mobile phone market as users will be able to switch carriers more easily without ...
Google search Tuesday will start factoring in how easy websites are to read on smartphones or tablet computers, underlining the changing way people surf the Internet.The Web titan said that the “mobile-friendliness” of websites will be a factor in ranking results to online searches ...
When three buildings collapsed and ignited a blaze in New York on Thursday, a smartphone app brought the live video feed to anyone online wanting to watch.The disaster took place, coincidentally, the same day as the launch of Twitter’s new livestream app Periscope, which ...
