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Article | 12/11/2001 NEC to launch its first PDA on Monday
NEC Corp. will jump into the U.S. personal digital assistant (PDA) market on Monday with the introduction of its first Pocket PC device, the MobilePro...
Article | 12/11/2001 Sony puts a chunk of memory on a key chain
As computers and other digital devices become more pervasive, the need to transfer files between machines becomes greater. Sony Corp. will on Monday j...
Article | 8/11/2001 Sony unveils latest Aibo robot
Sony Corp. unwrapped its latest Aibo entertainment robot on Wednesday, a futuristic-looking model that looks more like a cheap knock-off of previous v...
Article | 6/11/2001 Sandisk to unwrap 1G Compact Flash card
Sandisk Corp. will take the wraps off a 1G-byte Compact Flash card, the highest capacity yet, at the Comdex Fall show, which is due to start next Mond...
Article | 29/10/2001 Toshiba reports first half weakness, worse to come
Toshiba announced its first-half financial results Friday and said the few bright spots it found in the first half are likely to dull in the coming si...
Article | 29/10/2001 NEC to exit hard disk drive production
NEC announced Friday that it plans to end production of hard disk drives and exit the market altogether.
Article | 19/10/2001 Dataquest: DRAM market to get worse
Weakened by a collapse in prices that began over a year ago, the world's DRAM (dynamic random access memory) manufacturers will face even lower sales ...
Article | 17/10/2001 Gates upbeat on PC industry future
Slowing world economies and the knock-on effects of the September terrorist attacks in the U.S. could impact the PC business in the short-term, but lo...
Article | 15/10/2001 Microsoft signs up new game developers to Xbox
With just over a month left before it makes its first foray into the home game console business, Microsoft Corp. has added the support of three Japane...
Article | 15/10/2001 Sega to take Xbox to video arcades
Sega Corp., Japan's leading arcade game maker, announced plans Friday to make a motherboard for arcade game machines based on Microsoft Corp.'s new Xb...
Article | 12/10/2001 Sony's PS2 sells 20M, color versions planned
Fresh from celebrating the sale of its 20 millionth PlayStation 2 console, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will use the Tokyo Game Show, which...
Article | 11/10/2001 Fujitsu announces first SCSI 2.5G GigaMO drive
Fujitsu has begun sample production of its first SCSI-2 interface-equipped drive to support the 2.3G-byte version of the GigaMO format.
Article | 11/10/2001 Sony to take $124M stake in game maker Square
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), the company behind the PlayStation family of game consoles, plans to take a stake in one of Japan's largest c...
Article | 8/10/2001 NEC unveils PDA, Fujitsu to follow
NEC unveiled its PocketGear PDA (personal digital assistant) on Friday, at the same time as rival electronics maker Fujitsu announced it plans to ente...
Article | 5/10/2001 Fujitsu to enter PDA market
Fujitsu says it plans to enter the personal digital assistant (PDA) market in early 2002.

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