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There's a new vending machine making its way into doctors' offices across the country, but instead of dispensing soda or snacks, it spits out generic-drug samples--for free. Only physicians can access the machines, which are designed to counteract the armies of sales representatives who supply medical offices with samples of expensive brand-name drugs. The reps know that patients tend to stick with the familiar, even if doing so means paying more to get a prescription filled. Enter MedVantx of San Diego, whose ATM-like dispensers enable doctors for the first time to give away samples...
...good news: in a trial program lasting until the end of March, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is loaning visitors PDAs designed to make life easier. There are English, Mandarin and Korean versions of the device, each featuring a voice translator, free local calls, unlimited Internet access and sightseeing information...
...past, a word heard frequently at NTT, which as a former monopoly carrier with 60 million customers is the Japanese version of Ma Bell. Like AT&T, NTT now finds itself beset by a variety of nimble competitors offering local and long-distance calling and Internet access at cheaper prices. In its most recent earnings statement, NTT reported a $6.7 billion profit but saw falling revenue in almost all of its businesses. Its stock price has dropped about a third since early last year. Indeed, in Japan, where there are today more mobile-phone numbers than there are fixed-line...
...This raid on NTT's war chest could not come at a more critical time. Only about 40% of Japanese households currently have high-speed Internet access, meaning an all-out battle is being fought for the fast-growing market. Leading the charge has been Softbank, which initiated a broadband ADSL service in 2001 under the Yahoo! BB logo at rates that far undercut anything then on the market. In December that same year, it added VOIP (voice over Internet protocol)?telephony delivered over the Internet?at deep discounts to NTT's fixed-line phone fees. And in July...
...infancy, telecom executives now confidently opine that success awaits the companies that can reliably and economically provide consumers with what is called the "triple play": TV, Internet and telephone service. Softbank is not the only triple player in Japan. In late 2003, KDDI added television programming to its Internet access and telephone services, while J-Com, with nearly 2 million subscribers the country's largest cable-TV operator, last month began rolling out video-on-demand to augment the TV, phone and Net access it already provides via digital cable...