Who browses the Japanese Web? The results of Fujitsu teleparc's
Web user survey provide some revealing clues.

by John Drake

Reading Japanese Web Pages In English Windows 95

Thanks to NJWIN, a shareware multilingual support system, you don't have to buy and install Windows 95J just to read Japanese Web pages.

by Wm. Auckerman

Japan's Personal Handyphone System: Down for the Count?

When it was introduced in Japan last summer, the low-cost digital Personal Handyphone System (PHS) service aroused great expectations as a simple, high-speed communications tool. For a variety of reasons, though, PHS has failed to live up those expectations.

by Noriko Takezaki

Browsing the NTT Digital Museum

For a Web-based introduction to Japan's telecommunications history and its multimedia future, point your browser at the Digital Museum.

by John Drake

Callback Challenges the Status Quo

Callback has just a 1% piece of the international telecommunications pie, but that thin slice was enough to make it an almost $500 million industry in 1995. With annual revenues expected to grow six-fold by 1998, this innovative technology has become a political hot potato.

by David Schilling

Telecom Goes Digital

Telephone technology has changed more in the past decade than it did in its entire first century, due in large measure to the development of ISDN (integrated services digital network) services. And Japan's INS-Net
has helped lead the digital revolution.

by Zack Leatherwood

Can Computers Translate?

Should human translators worry about losing their jobs to machine translation systems? Senior Editor (and prize-winning translator) Steven Myers introduces the state-of-the art for computer translation systems and puts four Windows-based Japanese-to-English translation programs to the test.

by Steven Myers

Finding a Niche in the Japanese Market

We talk with Hiroo Satake, president of Itochu Techno-Science Corporation (CTC), about software development and sales opportunities and the state of the
Japanese business applications market.

by Terrie Lloyd

Cyberwomen of the 21st Century

A preview of the April "Information Technology and You" conference being presented by the International Working Women's Association.

by Wm. Auckerman




The Query Column (4/96)
PC repairs and learning about the Internet

The Mac Chooser (4/96)
Downtime is no time for pleasant chatter

The Help Desk (4/96)
Using a Japanese keyboard with English Win95

R and D Focus (4/96)
A visit to Fujitsu's Multimedia Systems Laboratory

The Internet (4/96)
The new Internet

Industry Eye (4/96)
It's morph or die!

News and Analysis (4/96)


News Briefs (4/96)