A businessman uses his mobile phone in central Sydney. Stolen phones will now be blocked on all Australian mobile networks, rendering them virtually worthless because they can no longer be used. The initiative is a world first and part of a national response plan on the management of stolen mobile telephones.
Microsoft has announced it will put a version of its Windows in mobile phones in North America for the first time. The Motorola MPx200 phone displayed here will be available before 2003-end. It is capable of e-mail, messaging, browsing and entertainment media playback.
Anoop
Gupta (R), corporate vice-president at Microsoft, sits at an
elevated train station platform in Chicago's Loop district with
Corinne Martinez of Microsoft to demonstrate a new service called
Microsoft Office Live Meeting. This is an online collaboration and Web-conferencing service that allows business people to conduct real-time, interactive presentations and meetings over the Internet.
A model demonstrates Sharp Corp's new laptop computer "Mebius PC-RD3D" equipped with an original 3D LCD to see three-dimension images at the WPC Expo 2003 in Chiba, northeast of Tokyo. Mebius requires no special glasses to see 3D images and can be switched between plane (2D) and solid (3D) display modes. — Reuters |
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