Monday, May 27, 2002		Lens on IT

Virtual celebrity Lara Croft speaks to participants attending the 8th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, about the anticipated release of PlayStation 2's "Lara Croft Tomb Raider the angel of darkness," at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles.

Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of Bank One, talks to reporters about how he would use the new Tablet PC, during a news conference at the sixth annual CEO summit held at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The CEO summit brings over 100 CEOs from around the world for sessions on how companies can use technology to respond more quickly to the changing global business landscape. Each CEO was given a Tablet PC to use during the summit. The Tablet PC will go on sale in October 2002.

Nintendo had introduced the WaveBird wireless controller, shown in this undated publicity photograph, for the Nintendo Gamecube system, during a press briefing in Los Angeles. The device, which runs on two AA batteries, will be in stores June 2002 and transmits radio frequency signal to a receiver on the Gamecube. 

A Filipino man wears a mask and pirated compact disks while a friend pours water over him during a town fiesta in Paranaque city near Manila. With piracy in the Philippines costing US firms an estimated $120.1 million last year, Washington has put the country on a watch list of nations believed to have serious problems with intellectual property protection. 

— Reuters photos