NTT Docomo Inc. will launch a service in September, available via smartphones, to provide aquaculture operators with sea data, including water temperatures, collected with the use of special buoys equipped with information and communications technologies (ICT). Since March 2016, the major mobile phone carrier has ...
The so-called sharing economy has spread to a variety of fields such as cars and homes, and Japan has seen another rising trend in recent years — bicycles. A growing number of municipalities and private firms are providing bikes to gauge whether such services will ...
NTT Docomo Inc. plans to allow employees to combine working from home and the office as part of its work style reforms, Jiji Press has learned. The mobile phone giant will start a program in October to enable employees to split their daily work hours, ...
A polite talking ted You may remember Paro, the therapeutic seal robot that has been successful enough to be used by therapists to help dementia patients with stress. Well now NTT DoCoMo has now collaborated with toy firm Iwaya, electronics maker Vitec and communication doll ...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic organizers are urging people living in Japan to help make the medals for the games by donating their discarded smartphones for recycling. The organizing committee announced Wednesday that it has teamed up with telecommunications giant NTT Docomo and the Japan ...
NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes were promoted to the Japan Rugby Top League on Sunday following a 30-14 win over Mitsubishi Sagamihara Dynaboars at Hanazono Rugby Ground. The victory sees the Top West champions clinch Top Challenge 1 and win an automatic spot in the top ...
An old, unused smartphone lying around the house just collecting dust might one day be a source of admiration, dangling proudly around an Olympic athlete's neck at a medal podium ceremony. Hironao Ito, a sophomore at Waseda University, is hoping this idea alone will spark ...
A panel appointed by the communications ministry will call for bolstering guidelines aimed at preventing excessive discounts for smartphones, it has been learned. The proposal on Monday will stress that better standards are needed to check whether consumers are being charged legitimate fees, a draft ...
Japan's communications ministry imposed administrative penalties on three phone service providers on Friday for offering excessive discounts to customers buying smartphones. The ministry gave NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. until the end of this month to report measures to end the practice. According ...
The ideograms that were once eyed with skepticism have transformed into a universally accepted part of daily communication.
IPhone fans lined up Friday as the water-resistant iPhone 7 and larger iPhone 7 Plus went on sale in Japan, promising to be the first of the popular smartphone series to allow mobile payments here. More than 100 people were waiting at an Apple store ...
NTT Docomo Inc. said a panel awarded the company $1.17 billion in compensation after arbitrators sided with Japan's largest mobile-phone carrier in a dispute with India's Tata Sons Ltd. Tata Sons, the holding company of India's largest conglomerate, has been ordered by the London Court ...
