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TOKYO, Feb 1, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has concluded a membership agreement with the U.S.-based National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3), a Columbia University-led initiative supporting the development of a rich ecosystem of streetscape applications. It is estimated that over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, which are composed of streetscapes that include neighborhood streets, sidewalks and public...

NEC CTO to Deliver Keynote on the Future of Generative AI in Business TOKYO, Jan 26, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today that it will showcase its latest digital transformation capabilities, including a wide range of AI and global network technologies, at MWC Barcelona 2024 from February 26 - 29 at Hall 2, Stand 2H40. NEC's market-leading generative AI and world-class network abilities reach from the ocean floor to outer space and are underpinned by All...

- Contributing to the reduction of airport congestion by streamlining procedures with face recognition technology - TOKYO, Jan 25, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it has received an order from the Immigration Services Agency and Japan Customs for the installation of Immigration & Customs Declaration KIOSKs that will be jointly used for immigration and customs inspections to facilitate seamless immigration and customs procedures at Haneda Airport Terminal...

- Analyzes conversations in TV programs and lyrics of approximately one million songs to express romantic feelings with "taste" - TOKYO, Jan 17, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), together with Kimuraya Sohonten Co., a long-established bread maker, and Abema TV, a video streaming service, have teamed up to produce bread with flavors inspired by the romantic Japanese television program, "I Fell in Love with you Today." NEC's artificial intelligence (AI) has analyzed...

TOKYO, Jan 12, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701), a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, today announced that the company has been named winner of the Most Innovative Product/Service (Vendor) - Global award at the Telecom Review Leaders' Summit 2023. This award was granted for NEC's innovative Telecom Solutions, which significantly enhance the digital experience for B2B customers of Telecom operators and add substantial value to services offered to...

System spans approximately 1,870 kilometers, ensuring digital connectivity to the remote islands, giving a boost to its economic and social life Tokyo, Japan & New Delhi, India, Jan 12, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation India (NEC India) together with NEC Corporation today announced the successful completion of a flagship optical submarine cable system in Southern India connecting Kochi and the Lakshadweep Islands. Map of the KLI Submarine Cable System The Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands...

Transgene and NEC plan to start an extension of the randomized Phase I trial into a randomized Phase I/II trial in 2024 to further demonstrate the potential of TG4050 as an adjuvant treatment of head and neck cancers Strasbourg, France & Tokyo, Japan, Jan 9, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Transgene (Euronext Paris: TNG), a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leader in IT, network and AI technologies,...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NEC X, Inc., the pioneering venture studio backed by NEC’s world-class technological innovation and expertise, today announced its strategic partnership with Persol Innovation Co., Ltd., operator of the side job matching service "lotsful,” to propel the synergistic integration of top-tier side job professionals with startups in NEC X’s venture studio program, Elev X! This collaborative effort will streamline and accelerate the...

- Building a foundation model to enable scale and function expansion - TOKYO, Dec 15, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has enhanced and expanded the performance of its lightweight large language model (LLM) and is scheduled to launch it in the spring of 2024. With this development, NEC is aiming to provide an optimal environment for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that is customized for each customer's business and centered on a specialized model that is...

TOKYO, Dec 1, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC TSE: 6701) has been named among the 2023 Asia IP Elite by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), a world-renowned intellectual property (IP) media platform run by UK-based Law Business Research Limited since 2003. The Asia IP Elite is a list published by IAM annually to evaluate companies and organizations from a quantitative and qualitative perspective and recognize those that excel in creating value in intellectual property. The list...

NEC invests in "ERA Investors Fund 8"; ERA is New York City's first and leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund PALO ALTO, Calif. and NEW YORK, Nov 29, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC X, Inc., the pioneering venture studio backed by NEC Corporation's world-class technological innovation and expertise, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) today announced the establishment of a strategic partnership to strengthen support for entrepreneurs, which includes NEC's...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NEC X, Inc., the pioneering venture studio backed by NEC Corporation’s world-class technological innovation and expertise, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) today announced the establishment of a strategic partnership to strengthen support for entrepreneurs, which includes NEC’s investment in ERA Investors Fund 8. ERA focuses on early-stage startups and has invested in over 300 startups to date. ERA companies are...

TOKYO, Nov 10, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (Thailand) Ltd., a leader in information technology (IT) and wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is celebrating the successful installation and delivery of a Real-Time Industrial Waste Tracking System to support efficient waste management in Thailand's industrial estates. This system, designed in collaboration with the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), gives IEAT the ability to track, monitor and manage the movement of...

TOKYO, Nov 9, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Yazaki Corporation (Yazaki) and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) have conducted a demonstration experiment using the "NEC Digital Robot Motion Planning Solution" to automatically generate motion plans for multiple robots using AI in the manufacture of wire harnesses(1) for automobiles. Multiple robots used in manufacturing In this demonstration experiment, the need for a teaching process (work to create a motion plan for an industrial robot), which used to...

Lisbon, Portugal, Tokyo and Aichi, Japan, Nov 9, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Kagome Co., Ltd., (Kagome) NEC Corporation (NEC) and DXAS Agricultural Technology LDA (DXAS), a joint venture between Kagome and NEC, have introduced an agricultural ICT platform, "CropScope," which combines AI farming advice and automatic irrigation control functions compatible with pulse drip irrigation(1), to tomato fields in northern Italy and Portugal. In northern Italy, CropScope was introduced for the first time as a...

By combining NEC's quantum computing technology with Gurobi's decision intelligence technology, NEC can further support customers in making optimal business decisions TOKYO, Nov 8, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it has signed a system integration (SI) partnership agreement with Gurobi Optimization, LLC (Gurobi) to integrate Gurobi's mathematical optimization solver, the Gurobi Optimizer, into its solutions. The Gurobi Optimizer is the world's...

NEC Thailand and Vymo to support Banks and Insurance Companies with mobile-first sales engagement technologies PR Newswire SINGAPORE, Oct. 19, 2023 SINGAPORE , Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vymo , the leading sales engagement platform for financial institutions, joins forces with NEC Asia Pacific (NEC APAC), the regional headquarters for NEC Corporation in Southeast Asia , to support banks and insurance companies with efficient, predictable, and cost-effective mobile-first technologies....

NEC Thailand and Vymo to support Banks and Insurance Companies with mobile-first sales engagement technologies PR Newswire SINGAPORE, Oct. 19, 2023 SINGAPORE , Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vymo , the leading sales engagement platform for financial institutions, joins forces with NEC Asia Pacific (NEC APAC), the regional headquarters for NEC Corporation in Southeast Asia , to support banks and insurance companies with efficient, predictable, and cost-effective mobile-first technologies....

- Enables up to 16 times faster data preparation, reducing time and cost of data analysis - TOKYO, Oct 19, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the launch of "FireDucks"(1), a free software program designed to accelerate the table data analysis library "pandas," which is used for analysis with Python - the most widely used programming language in the world today. Capable of carrying out the data preparation required for data analysis up to 16 times(2) faster than...

TOKYO & LONDON, Oct 17, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Freshwave have been selected for Project NAVIGATE in the UK Government's Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) competition. The ONE competition is part of the government's GBP250 million 5G Telecoms Supply Chain Diversification Strategy for fostering R&D projects for telecoms, including the Future RAN Competition (FRANC), Future Open Networks Research Challenge, and entities such as the SmartRAN Open Network...