August 2006 Vol. 4 No. 8

Strategies

• Planar Lightwave Circuit Technologies for Photonic Network Innovation

R&D Spirits

• Creating Environmental Businesses Using a New Product Commercialization Method

Special Feature : Navigational Technologies for Next-generation Portal Services

• Truly Innovative Portal Services
• Navigational Information Retrieval Technologies that Help Users Reach the Desired Information
• Multimedia Navigation Technology for Handling Multimedia Flexibly
• Information Navigation Techniques Based on the Bird's-eye View Approach
• User Support Systems with Adaptive User Profiling Based on User Activity Histories

Letters

• MPEG-4 ALS-International Standard for Lossless Audio Coding

Global Standardization Activities

• Next-generation IP Network Standardization and Japan's Next Generation IP Network Promotion Forum

R&D Information

• IP Optical Traffic Technology for Integrated Traffic Control of IP and Optical Networks
• Single-electron Ammeter Based on Bidirectional Counting of Single Electrons

Information

• Solid State Quantum Bits are in Action-Conference Report on "Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Spintronics 2006"
• 2nd Award Ceremony for NTT Technical Review Held