Kuriko Miyake

Softbank Corp. is planning to provide public Internet Protocol (IP) telephony services and wireless Internet access at McDonald's fast-food restaurants in Japan, using its Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) infrastructure, the two companies announced Tuesday.

Japan's corporate executives are becoming more aware of the importance of IT governance, according to an annual report on IT trends in corporations released by the Japan User Association of Information System (JUAS) last week.

An organization backed by Japan's largest electronics companies has issued a warning to PC users that data stored on the hard disk of a computer that is being scrapped or thrown away can be read by a malicious third party, even if the disk has been reformatted, and has called on PC makers to offer software and services to protect users.

A organization backed by Japan's largest electronics companies has issued a warning to PC users that data stored on the hard disk of a computer that is being scrapped or thrown away can be read by a malicious third party, even if the disk has been reformatted, and has called on PC makers to offer software and services to protect users.

Casio Computer Co. Ltd. has developed a more efficient fuel-cell technology for mobile devices, the company said Tuesday.

Cellular telephones could be more secure in the future now that engineers at Fujitsu Ltd. have completed development of a compact fingerprint sensor designed for use with handsets.

Water-cooled processors, currently the domain of supercomputers, high-end servers and garage hobbyists, may be about to enter the mainstream.

Toshiba Corp. has developed a wireless LAN antenna which is able to support network connections with twice as many devices as existing antennas, the company said Friday.