Monday, April 30, 2001		Lens on IT

The chairman of the board of the Deutsche Telekom AG, Ron Sommer, left, and Finance Manager Karl Gerhard Eick, right, present the results of the past financial year of the German telecommunication giant during a news conference in the headquarters at Bonn, Germany, last week. In the background is the network income of the company displayed on a screen. 

Japanese artist Momoyo Torimitsu replaces the battery in her life-like robot Miyata Jiro as passersby look on in central Sydney. New York-based Torimitsu, dressed in a white nurses uniform, "tends" to Miyata Jiro as he crawls through streets in a humourous reference to his role as a "corporate soldier" and the Asian economic crash of 1997. Torimitsu's street performance forms the basis of an exhibition she will stage at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art later this year. She has already made public appearances in New York's Wall Street, in London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

Japanese use mobile phones at a shopping district in Tokyo . Japan's top wireless company NTT DoCoMo Inc and British-based Vodafone Group, the world's biggest mobile operator, are racing to take pole position and dominate the future of mobile communications in Asia, Europe and the USA, but with markedly different strategics.

IndiaBridge.com Chairman Vijay Amritraj (R) is greeted by Indian ambassador to the United Nations Kamalesh Sharma at a luncheon in New York . Amritraj presented a report "India Today and Tomorrow" at the event which was organised in cooperation with the UN Correspondents Association. 

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshkumh, actor Shammi Kapoor and senior politician Murli Deora at a function organised in the city in remembrance of the late NASSCOM chief Dewang Mehta.

— Reuters photos