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...seen them before: tiny digital cameras that wow your friends when you slip them out of your pocket but don't always stack up when it comes to performance. Kyocera's Finecam SL300R ($399) is different. For starters, it takes less than a second to boot up and be ready to shoot. Once you start snapping, hold down the shoot button to activate the continuous shooting mode, which lets you capture up to three pictures a second--perfect for catching, say, that New Year's Eve toast. The Finecam will keep snapping as long as you hold the button down...
Gadgets that do it all rarely do it all well, but Kyocera's new 7135 Smartphone, a combination cell phone and PDA, gives it a good shot. The compact clamshell runs Palm's OS 4.1 on a color screen, and the stylus tucks neatly into a spot near its hinge. The Palm part of the 7135 is fine, but it truly stands out as a phone. It uses a regular keypad rather than a touchscreen, so it feels much more like a phone than its competitors, the Samsung I300, Handspring Treo and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition...
...world has gradually moved toward cleaner fuels--from wood to coal, from coal to oil and from oil to natural gas. Renewables are the next step. Royal Dutch/Shell has pledged to spend up to $1 billion on renewables through the next five years. Japanese manufacturers, led by Sharp and Kyocera, have moved aggressively into photovoltaic cells, which turn sunlight into electricity. And in April General Electric snapped up Enron Wind from the bankrupt energy giant. "We are on a journey to a lower-carbon world," says Graham Baxter, an executive at Britain's BP, which is building a $100 million...
...York City, is adept at consumer marketing. SDL International, based outside London, and Logos, based in Modena, Italy, cater to a wide range of European clients. In Asia, firms like Tokyo's Toin Corp. and Hong Kong's Real Idea have established fast-growing enterprises for clients such as Kyocera and Sony, respectively. "No vendor can cover all languages," says Ric Ginsberg, a vice president at Oracle, which translates its software into 28 tongues, outsourcing much of the work. "One vendor might be good for our database product but wouldn't have the knowledge for our financial and human-resources...
UNEMPLOYMENT At 5%, joblessness is at its highest level since folks started keeping track in 1955. Powerhouses like Toshiba, Fujitsu and Kyocera are the latest to shed staff, laying off tens of thousands of workers Koizumi's plan: Subsidies to companies that hire; more money for job retraining; recruiting young college grads and near-retirees to teach; a supplemental budget for public works spending Outlook: FAIR. Remedies aren't enough. Business failures, the global slowdown and banks calling in bad loans all mean more people will lose jobs...