November 2006 showed the passing of a great man. Mr. Kaoru Suzuki was a great guy, with spunk, desire to learn new things, and a great leader. I was very sad to hear that he has left this world. He was a great manager to me at RICOH when I just came to Japan out …
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Watch Out For Watchguard!
We installed a Watchguard firewall (Firebox) at our Tokyo offices some time back. We were very happy with Watchguards speed of configuration and purchased a maintenance agreement with the box. We decided not to renew the maintenance agreement, and started to have considerable trouble with the system. Dropped connections to the internet were the main …
Broadband In Japan
In Japan, we have found that there are a lot of choices for broadband internet connections. Softbank brought all the pricing down by their now famous (and much copied) sales campaign. They branded the service Yahoo BB (BB for broadband). They had young part timers with DSL modems in a shopping bag on what seemed …