Monday, May 6, 2002		Lens on IT

Chairman of Tata Group, Ratan Tata (R) unveils the logo of the Birla- Tata-AT&T (BTAL) 'Idea cellular' as the president of BTAL, Sanjeev Aga applauds during the launch of the cellular service in Mumbai last week. BTAL, India's fourth largest mobile phone service, unveiled a new brand and company name to better reflect its merged identity as it rolls out services to more customers.

Chinese police inspect a cyber café crowded with schoolchildren in Guangzhou, capital of China's southern Guangdong province. The number of young people frequenting the cyber cafés has significantly increased over the past couple of years. Up to 15 per cent of children in large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are now said to be using them, according to a latest survey.

An Andean girl uses the Internet at a rural school in the Peruvian city of Huancayo, east of Lima. Peru's Plan Huascaran — named for the Andean nation's highest peak — was a key campaign plank for President Alejandro Toledo, the US-trained economist who took office last July pledging to help Peru fight poverty and vanquish unemployment and underemployment that together top 50 per cent. 
 

A screenshot taken last week shows the properties Window of the suspected Website and a portrait of Robert Steinhaeuser, the 19-year-old who shot dead 17 persons including himself at his former school in Erfurt. The police said the Website appeared to paint a very precise profile of the killer but noted it was updated hours after he had killed himself, after carrying out Germany's worst post-war mass murder. The introduction of the page reads "Teachers and other low life forbidden".

— Reuters photos