A week in Japan tech
Telecommunications
- Communications charges for mobile phones exceed those for fixed phones for the first time in 2002, as more people are using such phones to transmit e-mail, images and other non-voice data. Monthly spending on mobile phone fees per household averaged Y6,159 in 2002, nearly doubling from 2000, when the survey was first conducted.
Software
- Tera Systems establishes Japanese subsidiary. The new unit is a wholly owned subsidiary capitalized at Y10 million. Headquartered in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, the new company will market to semiconductor manufacturers software that shortens the design time for system-on-a-chip products having line widths of 0.13 micron...
