Japan
Internet
- Medical start-up eHope is joining forces with Nihon Edunet Co. to launch a medical examination service using an Internet videophone system as early as this fall. eHope will organize medical specialists from hospitals and clinics and publish their career histories online, enabling users to select their own doctors. Users will then reserve 20-minute counseling sessions with the professionals, during which they will be able to interact directly by videophone so that specialists can see their expressions and complexions and thus provide more accurate diagnoses than are possible over regular phones.
Mobile Wireless
- NEC Infrontia Corp. will introduce a wireless local area network on...