Matsushita will offer a inch PDP TV that uses a plasma display panel measuring about by cm.

The PDP offers full high definition ( by pixels) a to contrast ratio in dark surroundings and includes a connection for the High Definition Multimedia Interface.

Matsushita said it has already begun

The first opensource carriergrade telephony switch will be introduced next month at the ClueCon conference (www.cluecon.com) in Chicago.
 
Dubbed FreeSwitch the opensource project aims to build a highly scalable switching platform that can run on AMD Intel and PowerPC and runs for just $ to $ per

Skype the voiceoverInternet company is now directly offering mobile phones to go with its free Internet calling. The company introduced four new Skypecompatible WiFi handsets. These are the first phones directly from Skype.
 
The phones are being manufactured by four different companies: Belkin EdgeCore Netgear and SMC. They operate when

Advanced Micro Devices beat Intel to the market with the first dualcore x server processors but Intel this week said it will be the first to market with quadcore offerings.

The move to multicore processors will begin hitting the mainstream x server and desktop markets later this year when Intel begins shipping quadcore

Yahoo has now signed up the two biggest handset manufacturers to load its Yahoo Go for Mobile services on their phones after an announcement with Motorola this week.
 
Motorola said it will prominently feature Yahoo Go for Mobile which includes Yahoo Mail search address book and Yahoo Local on handsets worldwide

Home VoIP subscribers continue to adopt Internet phoning at a rapid rate growing from . million households in the first quarter to . million in the second quarter market research firm Telephia said Friday.
 
Vonage captured the lion's share of the VoIP business with a . percent market share. Far

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year in a belated attempt to challenge the dominance of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod player.
 
The announcement comes after weeks of rumors and speculation about such an

Everyone knows they should back up their personal data files but almost no one does. So what if a piece of software just did it automatically and constantly?
 
IBM is hoping to take the guilt trip out of the backup process with their latest software the Tivoli Continuous Data Protection

For visually impaired users Web pages that are designed to be accessible can be more easily read by screen reading machines or by making the type larger. But welldesigned accessible pages are not yet everywhere.
 
Google took a major step today toward helping users find the most accessible pages on

Vancouverbased Absolute Software released a Mac version of its Lojack for Laptops theftrecovery software.
 
Lojack which has long been available for Windowsbased portables surreptitiously contacts Absolute's monitoring center when the computer connects to the Internet. If the notebook is reported stolen or lost Lojack sends back the portable's current IP