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Mentioned on the official Gmail blog this week, Google announced plans to integrate Google+ Circles into the Gmail interface and has already started rolling out this new feature on Gmail accounts. On the left side of the interface, Gmail users will find a new link that brings up all Circles connected to their Google+ account. Users have the ability to add someone to a Circle through the Gmail interface. When clicking on an email from any… Read More

Redmond software giant Microsoft may just be getting started with spending up to $100 million promoting its new Bing search engine, but if the first month of operation is anything to go by, Microsoft may eventually be able to whittle away from of Google's enormous market share advantage in Internet search. According to media analysis firm StatCounter, Bing has managed to elevate Microsoft's share of the U.S. Internet search… Read More

The company also said an additional 6,400 workers, or 2 percent of HP's 321,000-employee work force, will lose their jobs over the next year as part of HP's digestion of Electronic Data Systems, a technology services provider HP bought for $13.9 billion last year to mount a bigger challenge to IBM Corp. HP was already dumping 24,600 jobs as part of that acquisition before the extra cuts were announced Tuesday. HP's… Read More

While so many others are reporting gloom and doom, the behemoth known as Google keeps moving onward and upward. Its fourth quarter net income might have been down to $382 million, or $1.21 a share, from $1.21 billion, or $3.79 a share, but that was due to charges on investments in Clearwire and AOL. But Reuters reports that its earnings were still $5.10 a share, surpassing the average analyst forecast of $4.95. Revenue was up 18%, to $5.7… Read More

Worldwide plasma TV shipments rose 87% year-over-year (Y/Y) while falling 26% quarter-over-quarter (Q/Q) to 1.7 million units on traditional seasonal weakness coupled with new model transitions and supply constraints. Plasma TVs remained dominant compared to other TV technologies in the 40"-44" segment with a 65% share, down from 68% in Q4'05, and gained share at 50"-54" rising from 29% to 33%. With plasma module supply tight… Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission gave the final go-ahead for the IPO Wednesday afternoon, and the stock was expected to begin trading today. As of this writing, the stock does not appear to be trading yet. On Wednesday, Google slashed its planned IPO by nearly half, cutting the expected price to $85 to $95 a share from its original range of $108 to $135 a share. It later confirmed its initial going-public price… Read More

According to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone QView, worldwide mobile phone shipments in 2Q04 increased 6.4% over the first quarter and rose 40.7% year-over-year to 169.8 million units. LG and Samsung both continued to execute strategies of rapid technological innovation, form factor flexibility, and brand excitement throughout the first half of the year. In contrast, the product strategy for vendors such as Nokia and Siemens remained… Read More

The company, vying for a larger share of the Taiwan market, is expanding its offerings of new handset models. The 7610 is equipped with 72Mbit expandable memory and comes with various multimedia functions including up to ten minutes of video recording, MP3 playback features and a wide range of smartphone features. With the growing popularity of camera phones, Nokia expects the proportion of camera-equipped handsets to increase from… Read More

Industry bosses speaking at the Piper Jaffrey conference in New York have sounded notes of cautious optimism about Microsoft's next-generation plans, with EB president Jeff Griffiths saying that the system could win 30 per cent market share. “Yes, they could get a 30 per cent share, ” Griffiths told the conference, speaking about the Xbox 2 console which is widely expected to launch by late 2005. “I think if they got… Read More

Source: DisplaySearch's press release. Revenues for 10" and larger TFT LCDs rose 14% quarter-over-quarter (Q/Q) and a record 116% year-over-year (Y/Y) in Q1'04 to establish a new quarterly high of $9.2 billion (B) as revealed in DisplaySearch's latest Quarterly Large-Area TFT LCD Shipment Report. 102% Y/Y growth was predicted, but 116% growth was achieved on faster unit growth, 59% vs. a forecasted 51%. In addition,… Read More

Business Week has posted an interesting article about Apple's iPod and market share this week. It states that while Apple says the iPod can claim from 40% to 50% of the market share of digital audio players, the iPod's global market share may actually fall well below the 25% mark. According to the article, very little good data exists on international sales of consumer electronics — digital-music players included. With the… Read More

Revenue for the quarter, ended Jan. 31, increased 9 percent from $17.9 billion to $19.5 billion, HP said. The revenue and earnings matched what HP had predicted last week. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company had earnings of 30 cents per share, according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Excluding several one-time items, HP earned 35 cents per share, matching average expectations of analysts Thomson First Call surveyed. Read the… Read More