9.9.04 | SAN JOSE, CA | Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced the world's first mobile phone to sport a tiny hard drive. With the built-in 1-inch, 1.5-gigabyte hard disk, the SPH-V5400 could store about 15 times more data than conventional handsets -- everything from digital music files and photos to video, Samsung said.

Clestra Hauserman, a well-respected name in the relocatable wall (interior architecture) industry, is back in the U.S. Market with a full range of innovative acoustically-rated and fire-rated partitions.

I.B.M. plans to introduce an e-mail server next week that is designed for medium-size businesses, to increase its sales among smaller companies. Called I.B.M. Lotus Domino Messaging Express, the e-mail software is the latest in an Express-labeled line of products meant to increase I.B.M.'s sales among smaller companies.  The e-mail package, which also includes a group scheduling and discussion forum database, will be priced at $48 a user when customers drop a competitive e-mail product in favor of Lotus Domino Messaging. New purchases cost $96 a user.

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7.2.04 | AMSTERDAM, Netherlands | IBM opened a test center for Radio Frequency I.D. tags in Nice, France, on Thursday to keep up with fast growing interest from retailers, manufacturers and transport firms. Top retailers say they will use the chips that allow product information to be read automatically and wirelessly by readers built into cargo docks and cash tills or the doors of offices and buses. The U.S. Department of Defense is planning to require its suppliers to attach RFID tags to their shipments.

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