Stories about: Softbank

Yahoo's chairman, Roy Bostock, is leading a group of the company's board members in favour of accepting Microsoft's unsolicited $US44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a new report.

Japan's biggest mobile telecom carrier gave its strongest support yet to Google's Android platform on Thursday when it said it is considering a mobile phone based on the technology.

Verizon Business is expanding its network capacity to support the evolving voice and data needs of its multinational customers based in, or operating in, Australia.

The U.S. patent and legal system has turned into a battlefield where companies and technology developers can be attacked. Open-source and free software developers have historically ignored this secondary battlefield, focusing instead on the primary battlefield of development and proliferation of their project. This omission leaves open-source projects and individual developers vulnerable to patent infringement lawsuits. By creating its own defensive patent portfolio as commercial companies do, the open-source community can arm itself for this battle.

In an effort to show wide support for its newest Windows Mobile operating system, Microsoft is highlighting several announcements from handset makers on Monday at 3GSM in Barcelona.

Devicescape Software says it has a solution for the problem of using Wi-Fi hot spots with devices that don't have browsers.

Germany's Asknet has teamed with Japan's SoftBank BB in a new joint venture aimed at providing electronic software distribution services in the Asian market.

Vodafone Group Thursday announced a restructuring of its business operations and senior management, aimed at cutting costs and driving grown in emerging markets and new services.

Softbank has agreed to buy Vodafone Group's struggling Japanese mobile phone unit for around ÂYEN 1.8 trillion (AUD$2 billion), the companies announced Friday.

Softbank BB and the Avanquest Software group have formed a joint venture to bring foreign software products into the Japanese market, and to help developers in the country get products distributed in the U.S. and Europe.

Cisco Systems will open a Tokyo-based research and development center focusing on Internet software and routing technologies in February 2005, the company said in a statement last Thursday.