Word: maruchimedia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suddenly, puzzlingly, Japan finds itself well behind in the race to catch the next big technological wave: the intersection of computers, telephones and cable television as well as the electronic services by which information travels across these networks. Americans call it multimedia; the Japanese call it ``maruchimedia.'' By whatever name, it encompasses everything from CD-ROM games to two-way television to the Internet, and quite a bit more. While foreign companies, most of them in the U.S., are zipping ahead along this frontier, Japan is way behind, clueless in cyberspace. What's going...
...Japanese call it ``maruchimedia'' -- multimedia -- and they plan to connect it to nearly every Japanese home by the year 2010. Their carrier: a nationwide supersophisticated fiber-optic system being encouraged by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In Hong Kong 600 of the city's skyscrapers are already wired with fiber optics and rate as ``intelligent buildings.'' The colony's 6 million residents are so interconnected that the better restaurants forbid patrons to talk on their cellular telephones while eating...
...connect with in Japan. Japan is also far behind the U.S. in hooking computers together in networks, although that business started to take off in 1994 as fledgling on-line services like Niftyserve, as well as limited access to Internet, enjoyed a huge surge in customers. Japan's maruchimedia may be the hot topic at electronics-industry gatherings, but the Japanese seem bewildered about what...
| 1 |