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Nokia announces the world's first luxury mobile phone company which will offer hand-crafted celluar phones adorned with platinum (L) and 18k polished gold (R) and costing twice the price of a typical family car. Vertu Ltd, a new independently run subsidiary of Nokia will start selling its phones at its stores in exclusive shopping areas in the USA, Europe, and Asia by mid-2002. The platinum luxury phone will cost 24,000 euros ($21,240), with a sapphire crystal glass screen and sound as clear as a Mozart symphony and operates on the popular GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard.
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Aircraft weighing as little as a chocolate bar could one day be darting over the surface of Mars with the agility of dragonflies and the eyes of bees. Australia-based scientists say they have developed navigational and flight control devices based on research into several types of insects. The resulting sensors are so small they can be placed on "microflyers", a model is displayed in this photograph, weighing just 75 grams. The team of researchers at the Australian National University won over NASA during a test flight of a prototype last week and the USA space agency has agreed to help finance further work.
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Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji speaks during a visit to Infosys Technologies offices in Bangalore. Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's second-largest exporter of software, said it plans to open a branch in China, which it sees as a huge potential market due to the enormous growth there in hardware.
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