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The President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, (second from right), speaks at a panel session, about diseases caused by poverty, at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, at Davos, Switzerland. Others in the picture are: From left - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the WHO, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of Bajaj Auto, and far right, Henry McKinnell, CEO, Pfizer |
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Chairman and CEO of the Compaq Computer Corporation Michael D. Capellas (L) and Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Bill Gates (R) present a new Ipaq electronic organiser after a news conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos. |
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Barcelona rubbish collector Roberto Casanova uses a hand-held computer as he controls a rubbish bin fitted with a microchip in Barcelona. The town's city council announced it will equip its 18,000 litter bins with the chips that allow the collectors to see how full the bin is, the last time it was emptied, and even if it needs new paint. The project will cost $ 1,13,000. |
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Kurt Hellstrom, president of Swedish mobile phone manufacturer Ericsson, presents the company's results in Stockholm last week. European high-tech stocks slumped on Friday after the world's third-largest mobile phone maker Ericsson posted a fourth quarter group operating loss and said it would not make its own phones anymore. |
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Dream Force 01,a 350mm-high robot developed by toy-maker Takara in collaboration with two other Japanese firms, pours a glass of wine at a press preview in Tokyo last week. Dream Force 01 can also be controlled from anywhere literally, provided the robot is within mobile-phone range. |
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