Las Vegas - Consumer electronics firm Panasonic said on Tuesday that its new VIERA line of Internet-connected plasma televisions will come equipped with integrated access to Google's Picasa Web Albums online photo-sharing service, as well as videos from YouTube. The first generation of the devices is slated to ship in the spring.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) this week introduced a version of its Picasa photo organizing, editing and Web hosting service optimized for Apple's iPhone. Users can point their iPhone's Safari browser to Picasaweb.Google.com, and view all of the albums and slideshows they've uploaded to Picasa, as well as any comments posted by friends.

Alviso, Calif. - TiVo (NASD: TIVO) announced on Monday that it has partnered with online photo-hosting services Photobuck and Picasa Web Albums, to allow TiVo subscribers to access their own photos and those of friends via their broadband-connected TiVo boxes. TiVo users will also be able to search community photos of interest by keyword through TiVo's search interface.