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After an earlier complaint against Nichia was rejected, Everlight has uncovered additional details to bolster its claim that fictitious results were included in a Nichia patent application.
LEDs Magazine
Spencer Kelly discovers that 2014 could the year when touchscreens are launched which react in three dimensions that do not even require touch to recognise what action the device should take.
BBC News
AndroidForNook offers a Nook-to-Android download option for just $9.99. It's available for all four of the aforementioned Nook models, and you can use it with your own 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB card.
CNET
An incredible 80% of men in the UK admit playing on their smartphone or Internet tablet during dinner, according to a new survey.
Daily Mail
Products that use the flexible displays touted as a candidate screen for the rumoured Apple iWatch could still be years away.
ZDNet
Samsung's newest addition to the Note series uses an 8-inch display. But don't worry, it still comes with the same special S Pen stylus and apps that gave the original its name.
ZDNet
If you know what a liquid is (key properties include that it flows and changes shape to fit the container in which it sits), and have a memory of copper sulphate crystals at the bottom of a test-tube from school chemistry lessons, the idea of a liquid crystal may seem a bit odd. It is, however, a well-defined state of matter which sits comfortably between liquids and crystals in its underlying molecular packing.
The Guardian
Today, Apple's In-Cell display patent application has come to light. Yet perhaps the real story here is that Apple has clearly stated that this technology could apply to Macs and went out of their way to list the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and even a future iMac.
Patently Apple
Last year, the touch screen market was projected to reach approximately $14 billion, according to IDTechEx.
Digital Journal
Sharp Corp has developed technology for reprocessing the glass from used LCD panels, a discovery seen helping to lower recycling costs for consumers.
Waste Management World
High moisture barriers have been one of the toughest nuts to crack for flexible, organic electronics.
Display Central
Since 2010, there has been growth beyond expectations in the adoption of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, which has called for larger volumes of CMOS image sensor chips to be produced.
ElectroIQ
If you're buying a new TV and care more about picture quality than anything else, plasma is still definitely the best TV tech to go for. That's the view of Fabrice Estornel, the head of Panasonic's TV business in the UK.
Tech Radar
The touch panel market is growing rapidly due to the increasing sale of smartphones and tablet PCs. The touch panel market size in 2012 was 1.3 billion units, a 39.4% growth over 2011.
Solid State Technology
Tim Cook doesn't think much of OLEDs, and he doesn't think you should, either.
ExtremeTech
A smartphone with a transparent screen always seamed like a thing of the future, but judging by recent developments, this future might not be that far.
Gizbot
The potential for designing Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) with graphical user interfaces (GUI) and SCADA terminals in factories has evolved significantly in the past few years.
Electronic News
The California Energy Commission has worked with research originating at the California Lighting Technology Center to publish an LED lamp quality specification that SSL manufacturers will have to follow for products to qualify for utility incentives.
LEDs Magazine
We've been waiting a long time for the Asus Transformer Book -- my ZDNet colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes was writing about it last June -- but it looks like the Windows 8 convertible notebook is almost here. It's finally shown up for pre-order at MacMall for a cool US$1,479.99.
ZDNet
The YotaPhone, a dual-screen smartphone from Russia, is moving closer to its debut, first in Russia and later in other markets possibly including the US.
The Wall Street Journal
There are two products Apple is rumored to be working on at the moment - a smartwatch and a TV.
Business Insider
Soon after launching iTunes Store in India, Apple has rolled out the Apple TV media streaming box in the country.
Times of India
According to Nielsen, smartphone and tablet owners are spending 9% and 20% more on going to the movie theater and on home entertainment than those who shun the technology.
Bizjournals.com
Canonical introduces the Ubuntu tablet interface, which will compete with Android, iOS, and Windows with its own take on multitasking and advanced security features. The launch is the next step in Canonical's quest to unify phones, tablets, PCs, and TVs.
PC World
Touch-screen suppliers are focusing their production on smartphones and tablets instead of on notebook computers, leading to a shortage of touch screens for notebooks
Fierce Mobile IT
Engineers trying to mimic the peacocks' color mechanism for screens have locked in structural color, which is made with texture rather than chemicals.
Futurity
With the introduction of the first smartphones in 2012 with in-cell touch displays, a battle is emerging between the traditional supply chain of ITO-based touch sensors that are externally combined with the display, and the display vendors themselves integrating the touch sensor layers inside their display stackup.
electronic design
Tokyo's Nikkei national media conglomerate covering business, finance and industry news is reporting this morning that Apple is amongst a number of tech companies that are interested in a new kind of optical film that could create images with better picture quality than OLED film.
Patently Apple
Korean news reported that Samsung and LG Display, through the encouragement of the Korean government, are starting to talk with other about settling various intellectual property disputes over AMOLED, and possibly on ways that they can work together on AMOLED technology and market development.
Displaybank
Mitsubishi Electric has come up with a free-form screen car display system which is capable of projecting images on different kinds of screens.
Uber gizmo
LG Display, which is currently the only manufacturer of OLED panels, said it plans to boost production with a cash injection of US$657 million.
ZDNet
Taiwan-based AU Optronics (AUO) said Monday it has fully settled its price-fixing lawsuit with AT&T, and has accounted for the settlement in its 2012 fourth quarter financial statement.
Focus Taiwan news channel
Corning's strategy calls for growth primarily through global innovation across a balanced product portfolio.
Company release
One in five China-based LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future.
Reuters
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