NTT DoCoMo's latest model SH251i camera phone is shown at a DoCoMo office in Tokyo. Faced with a drop in market share, DoCoMo, still Japan's dominant mobile carrier with nearly 60 percent of all subscribers, recently started offering photo-phones which allows users to transmit still images taken by the phones that feature built-in digital cameras.
Graduates look for jobs on a computer at a Labour Department office in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's unemployment rate edged up to a new record high of 7.7 percent in April-June as companies slashed jobs in a bid to cut costs and a new batch of graduates entered the labour market, the government said.
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, talks about new software and hardware during his keynote address at Macworld Conference and Expo in New York. An updated version of the popular iMac computer was introduced featuring a new 17 inch LCD.
A Japanese model presses the on-off switch above the keyboard on a "wearable electronics" prototype garment during a research demonstration in Tokyo. Munich-based Infineon Technologies unveiled to Japanese media their development of this voice-controlled washable MP3 player.
Maiko Hasumi of Japanese toy maker Takara Co displays the company's FII-RII robot at Tokyo. Users of the product, which can take pictures with its camera eyes and can control up to six home appliances via infrared beacons in its hands, can direct the robot via an Internet connection. — Reuters |
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