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BERLIN (Reuters) - Panasonic expects demand for large plasma televisions to slide in the next two years but to hold steady after that at about 30 percent of the total market for large, flat-screen TVs, an executive said on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Panasonic expects demand for large plasma televisions to slide in the next two years but to hold steady after that at about 30 percent of the total market for large, flat-screen TVs, an executive said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Interior designer Timothy Corrigan had never heard of a "washlet" -- until a client asked him to install one of the high-tech Japanese toilets.

“To call the iPhone the best phone I’ve ever used is the biggest understatement of the decade,” enthuses Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com). “It’s like saying Jupiter is big, or infinity a long time. From the moment you pick it up, you can feel the weight and sturdiness of the phone, inspiring the sort of confidence you get from a quality build. The display is gorgeously integrated, the streamlined face covered by glass. Finally — a design worthy of being called a design!” iPhone is so good, in fact, that it even passed DeAgonia’s most critical test. “Over the years, not a single device ever made it through my mother’s hands without being returned to me with a frustrated laugh and a shrug. With the iPhone, once the screen lit up and my mother discovered that Swipe to Unlock really did mean swipe to unlock, she was sold.”

“To call the iPhone the best phone I’ve ever used is the biggest understatement of the decade,” enthuses Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com). “It’s like saying Jupiter is big, or infinity a long time. From the moment you pick it up, you can feel the weight and sturdiness of the phone, inspiring the sort of confidence you get from a quality build. The display is gorgeously integrated, the streamlined face covered by glass. Finally — a design worthy of being called a design!” iPhone is so good, in fact, that it even passed DeAgonia’s most critical test. “Over the years, not a single device ever made it through my mother’s hands without being returned to me with a frustrated laugh and a shrug. With the iPhone, once the screen lit up and my mother discovered that Swipe to Unlock really did mean swipe to unlock, she was sold.”

BERLIN (Reuters) - Japan’s Sharp Corp on Thursday unveiled a prototype of what it called the world’s thinnest LCD TV with a main display section only 20 mm thick.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Japan’s Sharp Corp on Thursday unveiled a prototype of what it called the world’s thinnest LCD TV with a main display section only 20 mm thick.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The summer dry spell for video games came to an end last week with the arrival of "BioShock", the creepy underwater shooter that has won rave reviews and flown off store shelves.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer electronics maker Sony Corp. on Thursday said it introduced a new U.S. version of its Sony Walkman that includes the ability to play digital video, the latest potential rival to Apple Inc.'s dominant iPod media player.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The summer dry spell for video games came to an end last week with the arrival of "BioShock", the creepy underwater shooter that has won rave reviews and flown off store shelves.