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Samsung Electronics expects a recovery in the TV market in the second half of this year, helped by an improving U.S. economy and the launch of new high-end sets.
Reuters
As Apple prepares to unveil both a new high-end iPhone and a cheaper version for the first time next week, it is already working on something bigger.
The Wall Street Journal
Sony has announced the first LED-based LCD TV with a curved screen.
CNETAsia
Xiaomi Corp., the smartphone maker that outsells Apple Inc. (AAPL) in China, has beat it on another front. The Chinese company will soon offer a TV that connects to the Web and runs on the Android operating system.
Bloomberg
There's less than a week left until Apple's big event on Sept. 10. Everyone is expecting Apple to launch a new line (or lines) of iPhones, but on Tuesday, rumors began to fly about another potential announcement this month: a new Apple TV.
Huffington Post
Qualcomm will release a Qualcomm branded smartwatch designed to serve as a second display to your smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Company release
In the days before the official start of the Berlin-based technology conference known as IFA 2013, Panasonic is aiming to stir up some excitement with word of a 20-inch 4K tablet.
SlashGear
Sky now claims that it's the first UK TV network to have conducted a live 4K broadcast.
engadget
Technology for producing TV-size OLED screens hasn't yet matured, and it's also difficult for electronics makers to make a lot of capital investment in that area, given low expected returns in the thin-margin TV market.
The Wall Street Journal
Apple and Samsung may be planning watches, but Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor said that big-name brands may not dominate the wearable computing market the way they have the phone business.
All Things Digital
Samsung is laying ground for big, competitive moves this fall with two new devices that could amp up its rivalry with Apple.
Washington Post
The TV maker joins Sony and Samsung in slashing the prices of its 4K Ultra-High Definition TVs by four figures. They're still very expensive, however.
CNET
While showing production values of less than 3nm wavelength uniformity, the 1.0nm result came straight from development. The record 1.0 nm result demonstrates the capability to achieve "1 bin" GaN-on-Si LED wafers with Azzuro's technology.
Company release
After a century of unimaginable technological change, the incandescent lightbulb is much the same. It may be the most backward technology in use on a large scale, and yet it endures, even inflames.
CNBC
Just how many pixels can you cram into a smartphone display? LG is apparently determined to find out as it announced on Wednesday that it's developed a new 5.5-inch display that has a whopping 538 pixels per inch, which sets a record for pixel density on smartphones.
BGR
It can be hard to stand out in a crowd, but a bright, animated wearable LED panel should help you get noticed. The Fos on Kickstarter is a fabric panel with Velcro strips. It weighs less than a golf ball and can be attached to clothing, backpacks, or just about anything else you can think to stick it on.
CNET
You can finally get a 4K TV from a major brand for US$4K.
CNET
Earlier this year, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics were racing against each other to bring curved OLED TVs to market. Now they're rushing to slash prices for the spanking-new TVs-which were selling at $13,000 each-to encourage buyers.
Wall Street Journal
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is the most exciting display technology since plasma, but there are a few things it needs to overcome before hitting the mainstream.
CNET
What makes an OLED TV better than an LED or LCD TV? How is OLED superior? Are there any disadvantages to OLED? We've got answers to those questions and more, in plain language, below.
Digital Trends
Originally developed for avionics and military displays, Direct-Dry-Film (DDF) optical bonding is now moving into industrial and consumer applications such as touch screens, TVs, smartphones, tablets, digital signage, and medical imaging.
SID
BOE Technology Group announced that it has placed significant orders for advanced Gen 8.5 and Gen 5.5 display production equipment from Applied Materials for use in multiple facilities.
ElectroIQ
TIME can really drag when you're waiting for a bus or train. Soon you might be able to use that dead time to contribute to a crowdsourced project.
New scientist
Industry experts are racing to produce the next big conductive coating.
GigaOM
The industrial HMI is continuing to evolve with the addition of multi-touch capabilities that are now standard on smartphones and tablets. With multi-touch functionality, HMI operation is simplified and enhanced, but the biggest question is how quickly these more sophisticated interfaces may be adopted by machinery builders and users.
Design news
Capacitive touchscreens in consumer electronics took off with the introduction of Apple's iPhone in 2007.
EETimes Asia
According to Harman, the next generation of sat-nav software will be more user-friendly and use a head-up display (HUD).
Just Auto
The CPSC is recalling two models, a 12-watt and 12.5-watt Endura LED. Here's how to know if your bulb is the right one:
Greentech media
Several major trends have been driving technological innovation in the display industry since its early days. These trends include image quality, screen size, portability and form factor.
Evertiq
Good news for gamers (and rubber duckies). A Kinect-based setup out of Japan transforms water into an interactive surface for playing games, watching movies, and maybe more.
CNET
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. Semiconductor Group has announced a major initiative to expand sales efforts in Europe for its industrial TFT-LCD modules.
Evertiq
Occasionally an existing technology is improved to push components into new usage areas. Sharp has done that with the monochrome LCD display, pushing it into microwatt power consumption territory while approaching e-ink display contrast levels. Coupled with pixel memory, they are call memory LCDs.
Engineering News
Tabletop computers have not exactly taken the world by storm, as some predicted they would. While a few have appeared in shops, bars, and hotels, it's not hard to understand why devices that until recently cost more than $8,000 have failed to gain wider adoption.
MIT Technology Review
A startup called Ubi Interactive is now selling $150 software that can turn any wall, desk or screen into a 45-inch touchscreen. Just hook up a Microsoft Kinect sensor and a screen or projector, and the display will instantly gain touch-screen capabilities.
CNN
Whirlpool of the US has agreed on a US$552 million proposal to take control of a Chinese maker of fridges and washing machines as it tries to gain a better foothold in the fast-growing consumer markets of Asia.
The Financial Times
Universal Display sees more growth potential as more OLED products, including curved TVs, hit the market.
Wall Street Journal
Toshiba's new chief executive said he won't pull the plug on the company's unprofitable television and personal-computer operations, shunning the "easy option" of exiting cutthroat competition for a chance to reclaim its former prominence in the businesses.
Wall Street Journal
When Amazon unveiled the unique display panel of its Paperwhite Kindle e-reader, it revealed two impressive facts: The first is that Amazon's internal hardware engineering team is more sophisticated than Amazon's line of decent but not so revolutionary tablets and e-readers would suggest.
Quartz
High-level executives of ChiMei Lighting Technology Corp. (憟?????) are reported to have quit en masse, leaving behind US$1.87 million in debt and worrying employees and a banking syndicate about what will come next.
China Post (USE The China Post)
A group of banks yesterday said LED chip manufacturer Chi Mei Lighting Technology Corp (憟?????) must repay up to NT$6 billion (US$200 million) in loans, but the company's major shareholders have responded that they do not have any obligation to cover the troubled firm's debts.
Taipei Times
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