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...Want My Slim TV Why plasma is the toast of the tech sector...
...often that a single device can inspire tech-obsessed couch potatoes, home-decorating mavens and investment-fund managers all to swoon with admiration. Especially when that device is a television, the boob tube. Except that it's no longer a tube...
...hype-drenched world of consumer electronics by surprise. The flat-screen sets are brightening the picture in surprising places in this hard-to-tune economy. Design buffs love their sleek, minimalist profile; videophiles love the stunning picture quality; and investors are finally finding a bright spot in the beleaguered tech sector. In 2003, sales of plasma flat-screen televisions, despite an average price tag more than 10 times that of a conventional TV, tripled, to $919 million, according to the research firm NPD Group. This year the market for flat-panel TVs is expected to soar to $2.5 billion...
...Japanese consumer-electronics companies crazy," says Peter Kastner, chief research officer at the Aberdeen Group. Although flat-panel TVs are produced exclusively in Asia, U.S. companies like Gateway and Dell are developing strong brands that will allow them to go after other product categories dominated by Japanese makers. American tech companies are working behind the scenes: Corning makes glass for the displays, and Texas Instruments has created a low-price, flat-screen alternative to the biggest plasma-TV sets with its DLP (digital light processing) rear-projection technology. "Just when you think innovation is dead, this shows you that...
When search giant Google announced on April 1 it was road testing a new Web-based e-mail service, a lot of tech types assumed it was an April Fool's prank: One gigabyte of storage memory per account, for free? Yahoo charges $10 a year for a tenth of that space. Yet Gmail is for real. It sorts, searches and spam-filters your e-mail. Just two catches: it won't be widely available for up to six months (test accounts are being offered only to employees' friends and families right now). Also, every message is sponsored, often based...