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Downtime is a disaster for any business and at Perth-based DDI Health it was disrupting daily operations as the IT team struggled with constant disk provisioning issues.

In response to calls by industry groups such as the Australian Computer Society (ACS) to provide IT workers with a greater work/life balance, a 58-page guide was released yesterday to help employers create a more flexible working environment.

Japan's three largest telecommunication carriers and the government will shortly begin working on the creation of an electronic authorization system to allow users to make large-scale purchases from Internet-ready cell phones, according to a report in the Wednesday morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper.

Large newspaper advertisements from NTT DoCoMo Inc. are nothing new in Japan. The company routinely shouts about the features and benefits of I-mode, its popular wireless Internet service, although a series that appeared last week highlighted something that is becoming a major annoyance for many of its users and attracting the interest of the government: unwanted junk e-mail, or spam.

Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. has issued options to British Telecommunications PLC that allow the company to increase its stake in three local units of J-Phone Communications Co. Ltd., Japan's number-three wireless carrier and the wireless unit of Japan Telecom, by 5 percent.

Classroom training in corporations is expected to decline by 60 percent in 2003 as more than half of corporate training will be conducted via electronic means. These were among the findings of the Learning Xchange study conducted by the Corporate University Xchange, said Victor Magdaraog, vice president at SGV-Development Dimensions International.

In a further blow to expectations for third-generation (3G) mobile systems, Japan's J-Phone Communications Co. Ltd. has announced a six-month delay in the rollout of its W-CDMA (Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access) service.

Qualcomm Corp. announced Wednesday the development of an open application platform for wireless devices that, it said, is a better alternative to Java for mobile telephones. The announcement, made in Tokyo, comes five days after the first cellphones with support for Java went on sale here.

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Reports from some of Japan's major electronics and semiconductor manufacturers suggest their factories suffered little damage from a very large earthquake that hit a large area of western Japan Friday afternoon, although the region's telecommunications system was put under heavy load.

Fujitsu on Monday became the latest Japanese computer manufacturer to announce plans to incorporate startup Transmeta's new Crusoe microprocessors in notebook PCs.