Jul 10

SoftBank – Completed to acquire America’s 3rd-largest mobile carrier, Sprint Nextel Corporation

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SoftBank - Completed to acquire America's 3rd-largest mobile carrier, Sprint Nextel Corporation

SoftBank today announced the completion of acquisition of the America’s 3rd-largest mobile carrier, Sprint Nextel Corporation.

SoftBank spent $21.6 billion to gain 78% of the new Sprint’s shares. In accordance with the transaction, Sprint has been renamed Sprint Communications, Inc., and Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank became Chairman of the Sprint Corporation.

SoftBank said that they plan to invest approximately $16 billion in new Sprint for their LTE network during the next 2 years to make them competitive with Verizon and AT&T.

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Mar 29

COWON JAPAN – COWON D20 – MP3 player with 90 hour battery life

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COWON JAPAN has introduced a compact and sleek MP3 player that is affordable and easy to use and has a very long battery life: continuous music max. 90 hours / movie play max. 13 hours.
It has a 2.5 inch LCD touchscreen with 3 capacities: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. Includes cable to play video with XVID SP/ASP, WMV 7/8/9 (Video codec), and with JetEffect 5.0.
You can select from various sound effects (EQ, BBE, Mach3Bass, 3D Surround, MP Enhance, Stereo Enhanc, etc.), 9 Reverb modes and 48 preset …

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Jul 02

DOCOMO and Omron Healthcare to Establish “docomo Healthcare, Inc.”

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NTT DOCOMO and Omron Healthcare announced today their joint establishment of docomo Healthcare, Inc., a new company that will design, develop and provide a wide range of innovative healthcare support services.
docomo Healthcare, Inc. will link smartphones with Omron Healthcare instruments, such as body composition, blood pressure and sleep monitors, to enable customers to easily gather the readings and upload them to the cloud, integrating various types of information for seamless and complete …

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