The LCD maker wants to utilize its display experience to create a 3G smartphone, but analysts are skeptical of its chances to knock off Nokia or Samsung.

Electrofluidic display promises full colour e-book readers soon

Universal Display is showcasingits UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology at Finetech Japan's first ever LED/OLED Lighting Technology Exposition.

Micronic Laser Systems AB (STO:MICR), today received an order for a Prexision-8 laser pattern generator from a captive mask shop in Asia. The tool will be shipped in the second quarter of 2009.

A little-known consumer solutions designer is laying claim to the first non-Apple external LCD displays for Mini DisplayPort-equipped Macs that are designed to look like the Mac maker's new LED-based Cinema Display offerings but retail for a fraction of the cost.

An executive with Hitachi Displays was charged on Tuesday with participating in a conspiracy to fix the prices of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels, the US Justice Department said.

The partnership between Samsung Electronics and Sony is facing a serious test, with Sony drawing first blood, testing samples of LCD panels manufactured by LG Display.

Four out of five global electronic display companies have adopted environmentally-sustainable practices in their businesses, according to a recent iSuppli survey, indicating the greening of the display industry has moved beyond the talk phase and into actual practice.

Samsung Electronics, which employs VA (vertically-aligned) display technology, and LG Display, which adopts IPS (in-plane switching) display technology, are fiercely competing over share of the Chinese LCD TV market.

Flat-screen maker LG Display expects a more than 50 percent rise in shipments of LCD TV panels in China in 2009, Gyo-Young Song, sales chief in charge of south China, said on Wednesday.