NTT Docomo brings Babel Fish closer to reality The Babel Fish was a creation of science fiction author Douglas Adams that could be placed in the ear enabling the user to understand anything said in any language. Smartphones and cloud computing are bringing a limited subset of that capability clsoe to reality. Japanese telco NTT Docomo has announced plans to launch a second, this time large scale, trial of a cloud based translation service ...
DoCoMo targets 50% stake in smartphones NTT DoCoMo Inc., the nation's biggest mobile-phone company, expects to increase its smartphone sales to more than half of the national total this fiscal year as it introduces new models, the company's finance chief said. The market share will rise from 46 percent in the year that ended March 31, Chief Financial Officer Kazuto Tsubouchi said Friday at DoCoMo headquarters in Tokyo.
