PDP TV makers such as Matsushita and Pioneerare likely to report weak results, having lost dominance of the market for large TVs to the more popular LCD.

okia launched on Thursday a service that it said will cut the time a GPS-enabled cell phone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts. Nokia hopes the service, available for people who own its flagship N95 smart phones, will cut the start-up time to one minute, from up to three minutes currently. The slowness has so far hampered interest in cell phone navigation.

n the wake of the demise of SunRocket, a well-financed VoIP startup, a number of VCs and analysts agree that standalone VoIP service may no longer be a viable business in the United States. Three-year-old SunRocket has terminated its operation but still has not officially informed its 200,000 subscribers. SunRocket's much larger rival, Vonage, has said it is near bankruptcy.

It will be sold unlocked from a specified carrier's service for US$299 to $349, although HP plans to work with carriers to bundle the phone with their services, an HP official said in February.