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SoftBank to Run LTE-Broadcast Field Trial During Baseball Games

SoftBank this week announced it will carry out a field test for LTE-Broadcast, a real-time video streaming service done via…

SoftBank Leads $9.4M Investment Round with Bare Metal Cloud Startup Packet

SoftBank leads $9.4 million funding round with New York-based cloud startup Packet. In addition to the capital round, the companies…

NTT Data to Launch Virtual Reality Baseball Coaching System

NTT Data, IT subsidiary of NTT announced it will launch a new virtual reality (VR) baseball coaching system in Japan…

SoftBank to Roll Out LoRa IoT Wide Area Network

SoftBank said that it will offer IoT solutions that utilize a Low Power Wide Area (LWPA) network, which enables low…

Apple Pay to Debut in Japan with iPhone 7 in October

Apple announced that the newly launched iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2 will bring customers in…

Softbank Adopts Sandisk Flash for Software-Defined Storage Solution in Data Center

Japan's SoftBank has adopted the Western Digital's SanDisk InfiniFlash all-flash storage platform for its software-defined storage solution to save on…

Gemalto Provides Security Solution for IoT to Japan's DNP

Digital security company, Gemalto is supplying its security solutions developed for the Internet of Things (IoT) market to Japan's Dai…

SoftBank's Extension of Innovation Program to Include Connected Vehicles, AR/VR & Drones

SoftBank has launched the second round of its ’SoftBank Innovation Program‘, a program that seeks a wide range of innovative…

SoftBank, Aeris Establish JV to Market IoT/M2M Solutions in Japan, India, Europe & US

SoftBank which just this week acquired the UK-based ARM to boost its Internet-of-Things(IoT) offerings, is partnering with Aeris to establish…