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Nikkei Communications

October 15, 2007

Cover Story 1

This is how you can prevent wrong e-mail transmission: Prepare for incidents with reminder and file protection

 

“Oh, my goodness!  I sent my e-mail to a wrong address.” Probably, everybody has made this kind of mistakes in e-mail once or twice. Wrong e-mail transmission may sound like a silly mistake, but in some cases, it may lead to serious incidents such as information leakage.  What is important to prevent such mistakes is to provide an opportunity to filter e-mail and stop it from being sent if the destination is wrong. Let’s look at some of specific preventive measures.

 

In some cases, it may turn to a serious incident, so you are no longer allowed to say it’s just a careless mistake

 

Wrong transmission preventive measures

Fundamental solution is to stop e-mail on the brink of transmission

 

Measures for attachment files

If you cannot stop e-mail from being sent, make sure nobody can open attachment files

 

Cover Story 2

Front line for visual communications, ranging from telepresence to Skype

 

Video conference systems that have been called killer applications in communications are evolving.  Backed by wider bandwidth in networks, various video conference products are appearing that provide stronger “immersive sense” and more improved convenience of their “at any time” and “anywhere” usability. This article explores the front line of the products.

 

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

3.9G (3.9-generation cell phones)

Cell phone services with a maximum of 300 Mbit/sec transmission speed will start as early as 2009

 

The term 3.9G is a common name for the next-generation cell telephony standard that brings forth a maximum of 300 Mbit/sec transmission speed.  They are positioned as the advanced version of 3G cell phones, but we could say that they are virtually 4G cell phones technically.

 

Highly technical term you need to know

MashUp

 

Report

Seven companies, including SOFTBANK and KDDI, perform demonstration experiments on passive optical network

 

SOFTBANK BB starts Web site authentication that leverages cell phones

 

Commercialization and mass-production of femtcell are expected to fully start around the middle of 2008

 

NTT Communications develops SDP for ASP, facilitating the use of NGN network functions through SaaS

 

New options appear in coaxial cable LANs, providing 200 Mbit/sec at low cost by replacing the physical layer with coaxial cables

 

Finalized report from the Panel on Neutrality of Networks approves additional charges to heavy users

 

Telecom watch

Confused IPMobile has internal strife right before the deadline for returning the current license elapses

 

Editor-in-Chief’s Interview

“It is one of our missions to create a new industry.  Femtocell will give us a possibility to do it.”

Mr. Junichi Miyakawa, Executive Vice President & CTO, Director, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

 

Case study

ORIX Corporation

The company starts “Flex Office” that could make its employees at home and outside their offices feel as if they were in the workplace with ensured security through two-stage authentication processes and quarantine system

 

Laforet HARAJUKU

The shopping center makes its heterogeneous environments appear common through virtual applications delivered through network with reduced management load


 

Nikkei Communications

October 15, 2007

Cover Story 1

This is how you can prevent wrong e-mail transmission: Prepare for incidents with reminder and file protection

 

“Oh, my goodness!  I sent my e-mail to a wrong address.” Probably, everybody has made this kind of mistakes in e-mail once or twice. Wrong e-mail transmission may sound like a silly mistake, but in some cases, it may lead to serious incidents such as information leakage.  What is important to prevent such mistakes is to provide an opportunity to filter e-mail and stop it from being sent if the destination is wrong. Let’s look at some of specific preventive measures.

 

In some cases, it may turn to a serious incident, so you are no longer allowed to say it’s just a careless mistake

 

Wrong transmission preventive measures

Fundamental solution is to stop e-mail on the brink of transmission

 

Measures for attachment files

If you cannot stop e-mail from being sent, make sure nobody can open attachment files

 

Cover Story 2

Front line for visual communications, ranging from telepresence to Skype

 

Video conference systems that have been called killer applications in communications are evolving.  Backed by wider bandwidth in networks, various video conference products are appearing that provide stronger “immersive sense” and more improved convenience of their “at any time” and “anywhere” usability. This article explores the front line of the products.

 

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

3.9G (3.9-generation cell phones)

Cell phone services with a maximum of 300 Mbit/sec transmission speed will start as early as 2009

 

The term 3.9G is a common name for the next-generation cell telephony standard that brings forth a maximum of 300 Mbit/sec transmission speed.  They are positioned as the advanced version of 3G cell phones, but we could say that they are virtually 4G cell phones technically.

 

Highly technical term you need to know

MashUp

 

Report

Seven companies, including SOFTBANK and KDDI, perform demonstration experiments on passive optical network

 

SOFTBANK BB starts Web site authentication that leverages cell phones

 

Commercialization and mass-production of femtcell are expected to fully start around the middle of 2008

 

NTT Communications develops SDP for ASP, facilitating the use of NGN network functions through SaaS

 

New options appear in coaxial cable LANs, providing 200 Mbit/sec at low cost by replacing the physical layer with coaxial cables

 

Finalized report from the Panel on Neutrality of Networks approves additional charges to heavy users

 

Telecom watch

Confused IPMobile has internal strife right before the deadline for returning the current license elapses

 

Editor-in-Chief’s Interview

“It is one of our missions to create a new industry.  Femtocell will give us a possibility to do it.”

Mr. Junichi Miyakawa, Executive Vice President & CTO, Director, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

 

Case study

ORIX Corporation

The company starts “Flex Office” that could make its employees at home and outside their offices feel as if they were in the workplace with ensured security through two-stage authentication processes and quarantine system

 

Laforet HARAJUKU

The shopping center makes its heterogeneous environments appear common through virtual applications delivered through network with reduced management load