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Article | 4/04/2003 Robot researchers work to aid, save lives
Sony's Aibo robots, or any one of the latest humanoid robots may be cute and draw all the attention, but there's a serious side to Japan's robot indus...
Article | 3/04/2003 Japan's robot expo opens
It's Robodex time in Japan again and that means a gamut of new robots including both improved and upgraded models and brand new machines, many from co...
Article | 3/04/2003 Sony updates its humanoid robot
Sony Corp. unveiled a new version of its SDR (Sony Dream Robot) humanoid robot on Wednesday that, it said, packs major increases in abilities and inte...
Article | 27/03/2003 NTT DoCoMo to sell wristphone
NTT DoCoMo has unveiled a cellular telephone that takes the form of a wristwatch and plans to put the device on sale in Japan shortly, the company sai...
Article | 24/03/2003 Gadgets galore at CeBIT 2003
As usual, this year's CeBIT trade show was packed full of consumer electronics and computing gadgets. Across the exhibition's 27 halls were hundreds o...
Article | 10/01/2003 AT&T snafu hits access to Microsoft Web services
An Internet routing error by AT&T Corp. effectively shut off access from around 40 percent of the Internet to several major Microsoft Web sites and se...
Article | 19/12/2002 Sony, Matsushita developing Linux for AV devices
Japan's two largest consumer electronics companies, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., better known as Panasonic, and Sony Corp. have begun join...
Article | 3/12/2002 Samsung shows new Pocket PC phone
Samsung Electronics has taken the wraps off a prototype of what is likely to be the most fully-featured PDA (personal digital assistant) phone it has ...
Article | 2/12/2002 Gadgets Galore: Newest PDAs, Players, Phones
For a peek at the future of handheld devices, take a look at the gadget highlights shown in Japan recently.
Article | 29/11/2002 Samsung's new phone can read your handwriting
If you have ever had the need to write something down during a phone call but were caught without a pen and paper, then Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. m...
Article | 7/11/2002 IBM enhances Pixie Dust for 80G mobile drive
IBM Corp. says an enhancement to its 'Pixie Dust' technology has enabled it to break the current storage density record for hard disk drives and to pr...
Article | 7/11/2002 Tablet PC launch to begin rolling in Asia
Three countries in Asia will be the first to see devices based on Microsoft Corp.'s Tablet PC operating system go on commercial sale later Thursday as...
Article | 4/11/2002 Toshiba packs 128MB into new Pocket PC
Toshiba Corp. will begin selling from the end of next week three new models of its Genio PDA (personal digital assistant) including two that feature 1...
Article | 1/11/2002 MS China lab comes of age with Tablet PC launch
The launch of the Tablet PC marks a second attempt by Microsoft to popularize pen computing, but to the 140 researchers and staff at Microsoft's Resea...
Article | 29/10/2002 Dell launches its smallest desktop PC yet
Dell Computer launched Monday what it says is its smallest desktop computer yet. The OptiPlex SX260 is 50 percent smaller by volume than the company's...

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