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Monday, August 12, 2002
IT Click

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc's PlayStation 2 Ocean Blue colour model (R) is displayed alongside the Zen Black model in a glass case as sales of the blue model begin in Tokyo. The Zen Black model is available in the market from August 1. Following user requests for coloured PlayStations, the latest 2002 skeleton model has been manufactured and is being sold for 30,000 yen ($256)

 

A passer-by walks in front of an advertisement for a job hunting Website in Hong Kong . Hong Kong, struggling to shake off its second economic downturn in four years also has to think up ways to bring down soaring unemployment now at a record of 7.4 per cent.

Undated file photos of customiszed mobile phones for wireless operators, as presented by Motorola Inc. The company announced it will build the customised phones in a new strategy to boost market share quickly as it tries to regain its dominance in cell phones.

A group of computer hackers work on laptop computers, at the H2K2 conference held in New York City. The three day conference attracts an estimated 2,000 security professionals and computer activists including the elite of the US hacker world. Some of the world's best-known hackers unveiled a plan to offer free software to promote anonymous Web surfing in countries where the Internet is censored, especially China and Middle Eastern nations. 

— Reuters