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The SGH-i700 for GSM/GPRS networks has a digital camera, SD memory card slot, touch-screen display and stylus for data input and navigation. Also can play MP3 files.

First voice-enabled Palm PDA hits market (Feb 27)

Singapore riding IC roller coaster (Feb 26)

Chartered looks for increased presence in China and plans to focus on fabless design houses in China

Infineon says it still plans to leave ProMos (Feb 27)

Crolles2 Alliance facility near Grenoble, France, inaugurated today (Feb 27)

Ceremony attended by French President Jacques Chirac, and senior management of Philips, Motorola and STMicroelectronics.

South Korea's Hynix says 50 company executives resign (Feb 27)

Canon launches two scanners, four compact cameras, two DV camcorders, five PowerShot cameras, two bubblejet printers and the EOS Rebel G II SLR camera (Feb 27)

Dell plans ambitious growth for China (Feb 27)

If it achieves its growth target for 2003, Dell would still finish behind #2 PC seller Founder, which controls about 9% of the China market; and well behind Legend, the leader with 27%.

Sony online gaming to use IBM technology (Feb 27)

Gartner: Japan's PC shipments fell 10.4% in 2002 (Feb 27)

Dell may double China components purchases (Feb 27)

PDP TV makers racing to boost production

TCL January mobile phone sales up 3.5 times on-year (Feb 26)

Interoperability tests for 802.11g products to be completed in July (Feb 25)

Beijing municipal government and Microsoft sign MOU (Feb 26)

HP shortfall sparks merger worries (Feb 26)

Acer selects LSI Logic's advanced Ultra320 PCI RAID technology for server lines

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) to expand HD capacity in Singapore by 1m disks a month (Feb 26)

Omron develops "flat light source" technology aimed at LED illumination (Feb 26)

ASML to ship world's first 157nm litho tool (Feb 26)