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Monday, May 19, 2003
IT Click

HITACHI Ltd’s new crystal ball-shaped information display device is demonstrated in Tokyo. The clear acrylic ball, mounted on a built-in personal computer, displays projective images and the embedded sensor allows users to operate software by holding the device in your hands and breathing on it.

TSUKUMO Co, a Japanese electronics shop, displays a newly-created life-sized personal computer cover figure at a computer shop in Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics shopping district. The figure is produced for custom-made PCs.

ON the first anniversary of the Hewlett-Packard merger, Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of HP, announces HP’s new Adaptive Enterprise strategy in San Jose, California.

A South Korean woman uses the multimedia messaging service on her mobile phone in Seoul. South Korea’s three mobile carriers, seeking to capitalise on a potentially lucrative new revenue market, have agreed to allow users with compatible mobile phones to send and receive pictures and data on rival networks.

— Reuters