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 June 28, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Casio Computer Co., Ltd. said it is in the midst of developing a new, low-priced palmtop personal digital assistant (PDA) device called the "CASSIOPEIA BE-300." From Japan  June 25, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Java technology for cellular phones is gaining the spotlight, including Mobile Java and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) that enables development of applications that can run on cellular phones. From Japan June 25, 2001 (TOKYO) -- IBM Corp., NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Fujitsu Ltd. announced in May that they would jointly enhance the Linux OS and promote ways to introduce the results into the Open Source community. From Japan  June 27, 2001 (TOKYO) -- The spread rate of the Internet at workplaces is 33.5 percent in Japan, a survey found. From Japan June 27, 2001 (TOKYO) -- According to a survey conducted by Nikkei Market Access, world production of NOR-type flash memory, including DINOR-type memory, in the second quarter of 2001 will decline by 2.0 percent to 456 million units compared with the previous quarter. From Japan June 27, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Significant drops were witnessed in the spot prices of 128Mb DRAMs (PC133, 16M x 8 bits) between May 10 and June 8, and the prices for the large-volume users dropped as well. From Japan June 27, 2001 (TOKYO) -- The transaction value of use of JCB credit cards at e-commerce Web sites in May declined 7.3 percent from the previous month, according to a survey conducted by Nikkei Market Access in cooperation with JCB Co., Ltd. From Japan  June 28, 2001 (TAIPEI) -- Sales in May of the two Taiwanese TFT-LCD panel makers, Acer Display Technology Inc. and Unipac Optoelectronics Corp., remained on an upward path, with the rates of increase over the preceding month 8 percent and 26 percent, respectively. From Taiwan June 28, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Infoseek Japan KK started a temporary job search service for finding temporary job information by using its i-mode-compatible information search Web site, "i-seek." From Japan June 28, 2001 (SEOUL) -- Excluding SK Telecom Co., Ltd., Hyundai Motor Co., Ltd., Kia Motors Corp. and Hyundai Mobis, most listed companies in Korea are expected to post lower profits during the first half of this year, according to a recent survey of major listed companies conducted by Maeil Business Newspaper and the securities firms. From Korea June 28, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Garnet Connections Planning Inc. decided to cancel its plan of commercial digital subscriber line (xDSL) services, at the general meeting of shareholders held on June 22, and it started a corporate liquidation process. From Japan June 28, 2001 (SEOUL) -- MarkAny Corp. said June 26 that it has set up a joint company in Japan, called MarkAny Japan, in a partnership with ITX Corp. From Korea  June 28, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Kevin O'Connor, co-founder of DoubleClick Inc., which is the pioneer among Internet advertisement distribution companies, explained that this is a time of "labor pains" for Internet advertising. From Japan    |
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