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Editor of MalaysiaKini.com, Steven Gan shows the Web site at his office in Kuala Lumpur last week. |
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An IBM Power PC 750 microprocessor is seen inside a 1/2" household copper pipe in this undated handout photo. For decades, the world's top microchip makers sought to harness copper's superior electrical conductivity to build microprocessors that were faster, smaller and more efficient than problem-ridden aluminium chips.
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An employee of Korea Telecom uses a mobile phone while passing by the company logo at its headquarters in Seoul last week. The South Korean government began to sell its stake in state-run Korea Telecom as a part of steps to privatise the country's biggest telecom operator |
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A 4GB DRAM memory chip developed by South Korea's Samsung Electronics can store data equivalent to 640 books, 32,000 standard newspaper pages, and 1,600 still pictures or 64 hours of sound. The company plans to start a volume production of the memory chips in 2004 when the market is ready for the high-capacity memory chip. |
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Phillips CEO Cor Boonstra (L) and his successor Gerard Kleisterlee look at some innovative new products by Philips on their way to the annual press conference in Amsterdam last week. |
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Robert Figueroa (R), a Toy Fair presenter for Tiger Electronics adjusts one of two display models of the "Interactive Raptor," a three-foot-long toy dinosaur that walks, talks, stalks and chomps its jaws as its eyes glow and change colour. The toy senses light, sound and touch and when walking it will avoid obstacles and the edges of surfaces and should retail for $100. |
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Muy Loco, left, holding a cyber-fly on his tongue, and Trirapaceratops from the C-Pets series by Trendmasters Inc., are seen in New York last week. The company's C-Pets will include various animal models, like a 12-inch wisecracking lizard that plays games and dances. |
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Zhnagyan, a staff of China Telecom Group, tests the company's Olympic Internet portal at their technology department building in Beijing last week. Beijing is anxious to impress the Internation Olympic Committee (IOC) as it competes against Paris, Osaka, Toronto, and Istanbul to stage the world's biggest sporting event. |
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Sony Corporation's Core Technology & Network Company President Suehiro Nakamura shows off an extremely thin and lightweight, high-resolution display panel prototype of "the world's largest full colour organic EL Display" at an unveiling in Tokyo last week. |
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