The Business Times, 23 October 2006

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  • 22 1 mmth ANNIVERSARY J) THE BUSINESS TIMES online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg I A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPOIOScefTte^ MICA (P) 099/03/2006 Monday, October 23,2006
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  • 876 1  -  They account for 60% of patients at some private practices By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] Dentistry, previously perceived in some quarters as the poor relation of general medicine, is of late gaining a higher profile as an influx of foreign patients fuels brisk business in
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  • 682 1  -  It's 'inevitable' for Asia to tap gaming for revenue: MM By DANIEL BUENAS in Las Vegas SINGAPORE has not ruled out the possibility of allowing more integrated resorts (IRs) in the long term, and the government intends to "wait and see" in
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  • 130 1 MARKETS WMk Chge ST1 2686.43 +19.75 KLCOMP 979.19 -4.35 NIKKEI 225 *****.63 ..-+115.09 HANG SENG *****.55 ....+124.69 SET INDEX 724.48 +12.93 JAKARTA COMP ...1572.85 .+0.65 MANILA COMP ....2617.41 ......+60.-16 TAIPEI TA1EX 7039.37 _.-29.43 SEOUL COMP 1364.24 ......+15.64 SHENZHENS .330.46. +4.41 AUSTALLORD 5304.40 +50.50 DOW JONES *****.37 +41.86 NASDAQ
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 577 2 Jakarta's stature at risk, says MM Lee INDONESIA'S "standing in the world" could go down if it fails to properly control the haze situation, even though President Bambang Yudhoyono has "raised" the country's stature through his efforts and actions so far, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday.
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    • 874 2  -  But they rank SIA as preferred choice of employer, edging out Citibank: study By NANDE KHIN [SINGAPORE] Banking is the most popular career choice among Singapore university students, with foreign banks dominating the top employer choices among the students, according to
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    • 414 2  -  By CHEN HUIFEN [SINGAPORE] The popularity of dental implant procedures is spurring dental GPs to upgrade themselves so that they can also provide the service on top of the usual filling and extractions. "Over the years, there's been a growth in the number of people
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    • 717 3  -  Haze problem undermines govt's credibility, affects region's tourism, investments Reports by DANIEL BUENAS in Las Vegas INDONESIA'S "standing in the world" could go down if it fails to properly control the haze situation, even though Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono has raised the country's stature
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    • 493 3 He says he'll serve Singapore as long as he is able to AFTER more than 50 years in'politics, one may wonder what keeps Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the man who forged modern day Singapore, going. When posed this question during
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 651 4  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent IN ANSWERING the question "Global Equities: Can the Bull Market Continue?" independent research house BCA Research on Thursday said that "the risk of a nearterm correction in global equity markets is rising, though we remain upbeat on
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    • 326 4 CURRENCIES AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies mainly rose against the dollar last week, after the release of weak US economic data and speculation that American interest rates will remain unchanged. Japanese yen: The yen hovered around two-week.bigh&.against the ftellar test
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    • 1891 4 Source: Reuters Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Fri's Consensus No.of Forecast Mean Frfs recommendation esti- EPS PE target price recommendation esti- EPS PE target price Company name This wk Lastmth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name Thiswk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price (S) Advanced Holdings 2.00 2.00 2
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    • 406 4 COMMODITIES AFP [LONDON] Base metal prices notched up another record week on plunging stocks and keen demand, while crude oil prices headed lower as traders tracked Opec output news arid US energy reserves. On Friday, the Commodities Research Bureau's index of 17 commodities firmed
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 342 5  -  By CONRAD TAN SINGAPORE Telecommunications has sold its Robinson Road building, formerly known as Crosby House, for $163.4 million in cash to a joint venture between Lehman Brothers and the Asian arm of Japan's Kajima Corp. Sing Tel said it expects a net
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    • 532 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By CONRAD TAN CAN it be business as usual at Robinson Co, Singapore's oldest retailer, now that new chairman Christopher Williams has been swiftly elected to take the place of Michael Wong Pakshong? Unlikely. After last Tuesday's annual general meeting (AGM),
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    • 848 6  -  It has improved its capabilities through JVs and acquisitions Reports by MATTHEW PHAN SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering (STE) has the capacity for sustained revenue growth over the next three to five years, the group's chief executive officer, Tan Pheng Hock, told BT. This is
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    • 398 6 IT IS not always easy flying the national flag, especially when it comes to defencerelated contracts that may be politically sensitive, as Singapore Technologies Engineering (STE) has found out. Singapore companies have a good reputation for transparency and efficiency in China
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    • 214 6 INDONESIA'S Lippo Group has donated $250,000 to the 2006 Bull Run organised by the Singapore Exchange (SGX), making it the first platinum sponsor since the charity fun run began in 2004. "We are delighted to be a part of this iconic event for
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    • 531 6 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering (STE), the world's largest provider of airframe maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, would still be interested in SIA Engineering Co (SIAEC) if the latter were up for sale, group chief executive Tan Pheng Hock told BT. But since
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 1408 8  -  INSIDE MARKETS But hefty purchases in volume terms seen in Elec Eltek and Lee Kim Tah, reports ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI THE corporate shareholder activity remained low last week. As the market continued its upward run, only 49 trades worth 5516.8 million were done, based
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    • 261 8 Sfc 35 W «b7 m I* t *H« .u,;^ iSm •A. >» r THE BULL RUN 2006 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,2006 *5 PM Come November 10, watch corporate bigwigs and their staff members charge down busy CBD streets to raise money for charity. Don't miss the year's most dynamic run! Dress
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 377 9  -  Opportunities also abound in India, Russia and Middle East: PM Lee By CONRAD TAN MEMBERS of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) should set their sights on business opportunities overseas but not restrict themselves to just China, said Prime Minister
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    • 521 9  -  By JEAN CHUA CHINESE companies in Singapore have more opportunities than ever to succeed as China continues to expand its economy, but the challenges are immense as well. At the opening of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry's
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    • 177 9 DATE/ TIME EVENT VENUE 25 Oct HRSingapore Seminar on Hotel Phoenix 9.00am M.A.D. Presentation Skills Workshop 25 Oct Financial Intelligence The Plaza, #02-237, 2.00pm Seminar 7500A Beach Road 25 Oct ISEAS Seminar on Role of Seminar Room II, 10.30pm Private Equity in the E&P ISEAS, 30 Heng Mui
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
    • 4361 10 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC How can the proposed nationwide wireless broadband network benefit your organisation, and you personally? Is there more that can be done to make it even better? THE proposed nationwide wireless broadband network is a big step towards achieving Singapore's vision of a high-speed, pervasive Next
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    • 69 10 BT CEOs e-Club Members of the BT CEOs e-Club are Singapore's top corporate leaders whom BT editors would like to interact with in an atmosphere of informality and trust This 'dub' is a-virtual one with interaction mainly via e-mail. Each week, we will invite comments from these top executives on
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  • DINING OUT
    • 1268 12 They're small and prized mainly for their roe, and once they're in season, aficionados of this delicacy are in their element. We find out what the fuss is all about. Summer Palace Regent Hotel. Tel: 6725-3288/9 TWO of the most prized delicacies in the
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    • 197 12 rt t f 4 tfe£ J I DON'T YOU THINK I r I SYAHID DESERVES a. J I YOUR SUPPORT? Ate s,ca Edu K' Almost 8,000 students from financially-strapped families benefited from Cl A R* A A I T^e Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund last year. The fund provides
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  • SHELL-SIIA ROUNDTABLE
    • 1105 13  -  Must environmental friendliness always be at odds with the pursuit of profits? MATTHEW PHAN reports MATTHEW PHAN HUMAN activity is the cause of greenhouse gases that lead to global warming, members of a recent roundtable on climate change said, but the panel brought together
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    • 432 13 TECHNOLOGY to address global warming today ranges from more efficient ways to use fossil fuels to alternative energies, but more should be done to commercialise these, roundtable participants said. "There is still a lot of energy technology on the horizon that needs to be tested out.
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    • 689 13 ASEAN governments have pledged to work together to end the haze that currently afflicts Singapore, but cooperation in other environmental issues such as setting common standards for fuel is lacking, roundtable participants said. Governments have demonstrated the rare will to work together towards legally binding
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    • 557 13 DIESEL-FUELLED passenger vehicles is an area that Singapore has an opportunity to re-evaluate, says Steve Puckett, managing director of Tri-Zen International, an energy consultancy. The rules for diesel engines were decided many years ago, but the efficiency of diesel engines is now far
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
    • 1453 14  -  DANIEL BUENAS takes a look at the various financial instruments that you can invest in under the CPF Investment Scheme DANIEL BUENAS LAST week, we took a look at what Singapore's Centred Provident Fund is, why it exists and what we can use our CPF for. This
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    • 670 14  -  CAMPUS LIFE A group of poly students have developed a commercially viable new product as their research project, writes OH BOON PING OH BOON PING Developing a new product that is commercially viable is not your typical research project in tertiary institutions here. But
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    • 46 14 citibank The Business Times-Citibank Young Investors' Forum is published every Monday in The Business Times. It aims to raise the financial awareness of university and polytechnic students and cultivate a better understanding of business issues. The series is part of BT and Citibank's tertiary outreach programme.
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 829 15 Analysts sceptical about cartel's discipline and if the cut goes far enough LAT-WP [NEW YORK] If Friday was a test of the power of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), the cartel flunked. Hours after the world's leading group
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    • 247 15 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Eisuke Sakakibara, former currency-poli-cy chief at Japan's Ministry of Finance, said the country's economy may begin slowing next year. Japanese economy's growth is near its peak, Mr Sakakibara said yesterday on TV Asahi's Sunday Project programme. He cited factors including
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    • 525 15 Inflation worries may trigger sell-offs Reuters [NEW YORK] The Federal Reserve has made clear that it is following the "data". But lately, economists and investors have been following the money, too. The Dow Jones industrials and other major equity indices have climbed impressively
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 709 16  -  MALAYSIA INSIGHT A leadership tussle and hardline religious interpretations can upset the red carpet rolled out for foreign investments PAULINE NG KL Correspondent MALAYSIA'S investment front recently received a nice shot in the arm with news of RM4O billion (5517.2 billion) worth of
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    • 613 16 He'll speak out against anything that he feels won't benefit nation AP, Reuters JKUALA LUMPUR] Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he would not stop attacking the administration of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, dashing hopes of a reconciliation between the two
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    • 2933 16 Transaction date: Oct 20 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT Online at http://business-times.asial .com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day HONG KONG Vol Datanglntnl Power Gene ...6.17 0 08 ***** HK$ '000 Denway Motors 3.03 0.02 ***** Digital China 2.98 0.02 *50 Aeon
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    • 334 16  -  By CONRAD TAN THE Raja Garuda Mas (RGM) Group, which owns the massive Riau Complex integrated paper manufacturing plant in Indonesia, has reached an agreement with two of its major creditors on new repayment terms for a syndicated loan worth more
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    • 233 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The case for a US-Malaysia free trade agreement is "stronger than ever", a top US trade official said on Friday, a day after Malaysian opposition groups urged their government to suspend talks. "We have seen recently a downtick in
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 492 17 New casinos are springing up as influx of mainland tourists rises Bloomberg, AP [HONG KONG] Gaming taxes collected by the Macau government rose 13.4 per cent in the first three quarters, as mainland tourists flocked to the city following the
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    • 439 17 AFP [HONG KONG] Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will likely stage a strong but volatile debut for its share offering when it begins trading in Hong Kong and Shanghai on Friday, analysts say. Analysts predict a gain of 10-15 per cent
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    • 326 17 It launches unconditional offer for the Taiwan bank Reuters, Bloomberg [LONDON] Standard Chartered has launched a wholly unconditional offer for Taiwan's Hsinchu International Bank after receiving the backing for its bid from more than 51 per cent of shareholders, the Londonbased bank said
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    • 488 17 NYT [LONDON] Tata Steel's US$7.7 billion acquisition of the London-based Corns Group may be the largest foreign deal by an Indian company, but Tata plans to continue growing, its chairman said. In an interview on Friday in London, Ratan Tata, the
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    • 608 17 AFP [BEIJING] Close to the site in downtown Beijing where Mongol emperor Kublai Khan founded a dynasty more than 700 years ago, a block of old Chinese homes disappeared recently. It happened almost overnight, recounts a UN official who lives in the
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    • 540 17 STRAITS TIMES INDEX STOCKS Stock name Wt Close Change Allgreen 0.34 1.620 Ascendasreit 1.03 2.210 +0.020 BIL Intl 0.39 1 460 +0.010 CapitaLand 4.40 5.150 CapitaMall 0.92 2.620 +0.060 Chart SemiCond 0.87 1.230 +0.040 CityPev 2.80 11.000 +0.200 Comfort DelGro 1.50 1.620 Cosco Corp 0.81 1.860 0.020 Creative Tech 0.37
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 872 18  -  WALL STREET INSIGHT But strategists are bullish and point to robust earnings, falling oil prices By ANDREW MARKS in New York AFTER a rally lasting two and half months, and a 12 per cent gain for the Dow Jones Industrials that has brought the
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    • 665 18 AP [LONDON] The shadow of billions of dollars in asbestos and other claims that has hung over Lloyd's of London for nearly two decades finally lifted on Friday. And the man who pulled it off is one of the richest and savviest businessmen in
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    • 309 18  -  Deal struck after buyer Harrah's raised offer by 8% By CONRAD TAN [SINGAPORE] Genting International has sold its 29.6 per cent stake in British casino firm London Clubs International to Harrah's Entertainment for £89.6 million (*****.7 million) in cash. Genting widely viewed
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    • 407 18 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australia's government sold As 4 billion (Ss4.B billion) of stock in Telstra Corp through stockbrokers and financial planners, completing the first stage of its exit as an investor in the nation's biggest phone company. The government allocated 1.1 billion shares
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  • SHIPPING/AVIATION
    • 332 20 Bloomberg [BERLIN] Airbus, the world's largest maker of commercial aircraft, is obliged to maintain A3BO production in Germany under an agreement for 943 million euros (551.87 billion) in government loans for the plane, the German Economy Ministry said. European Aeronautic,
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    • 473 20  -  Operating cost up by 4% in 2005, compared to 12% in 2004 By DAVID HUGHES [LONDON] Shipowners spending less on repairs and maintenance, which had been a noticeable feature when the steep rises in freight rates occurred two years ago, are partly
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    • 630 20 AP [PANAMA CITY] Voters were expected to approve the largest modernisation project in the 92-year-his-tory of the Panama Canal yesterday, a U555.25 billion plan to expand the waterway to allow for larger ships while alleviating traffic problems. President Martin Torrijos' government has billed
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    • 588 20 AP [HONG KONG] It's cheap as chips, feeds you hot food, provides 14 entertainment channels with a personal video screen, and you don't have to transit in far-flung airports. That, at least, is what's promised for economy class travellers with Oasis Hong
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 180 20 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 28 th,s? (11) 8 Taken for granted (8) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN 14 Dive where the coin doesn't Across: Dairy farmer 9 Space 1 Musician making a racket (7) come down heads? (4-4) traveller, 11 Reed, 12 Cloth, 13 2 Nearly time for bed? (5) 16 Listen to a
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    • 189 27 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp, the world's largest semiconductor maker, showed off a working version of a new chip for server computers aimed at the area where it has lost the most market share to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The new chip
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      • 91 27 THE Business Software Alliance (BSA) is organising a free seminar on software asset management (SAM) at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel on Nov 2. The event is open to all interested companies and aims to highlight the importance of ISO/lEC *****-1. a new SAM standard
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      • 86 27 WIRELESS telecommunications network solutions provider Optimi will invest $7 million to $10 million over the next five years into its newly-established Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. The office will be staffed by up to nine employees initially, and is projected to grow to 15 in
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      • 70 27 IT services giant EDS has appointed Steve Ingram (above) as its vice-president and managing director of South-east Asia. Besides spearheading the company's growth in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as other emerging markets, Mr Ingram will also head EDS's Financial Service Industry
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      • 63 27 SOFTWARE and services provider Compuware has named Steven Tan as its director of field marketing for Asia-Pacific and Japan. Based in Singapore, he will oversee the firm's regional marketing efforts with the aim of raising the awareness of Compuware and its solutions. Prior to joining Compuware,
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      • 71 27 BUSINESS performance management software maker Hyperion has appointed two new directors to lead its sales and services teams in the Asean region and India. Stanley Chia will assume the role of sales director while Francis Han will serve as the services director for Hyperion Asean.
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      • 55 27  -  Compiled by WINSTON CHAI LOCAL record company Hype Records has tied up exclusively with Star Hub to offer 10 unreleased digital music tracks from two of its artists Taufik Batisah and Olinda Cho.on Star Hub's mobile. onlin,e and cable TV platforms. For more details,
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      • 90 28 THE Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) has launched a free client/ server application called Transcend which allows online content such as maps, pictures, addresses and phone numbers to be easily sent from the PC to other Bluetooth devices like mobile phones and PDAs. By
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      • 76 28 SAMSUNG has unveiled the SGH-Z230 (above), a new 3G clamshell phone aimed at fashion-conscious consumers. The sleek handset weights a mere 90 grams but packs a host of multimedia features including a 1.3 megapixel camera and a large 1.9-inch LCD screen. The tri-band phone
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