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The first LED bulbs that are about the same size and brightness as regular 100-watt bulbs are reaching stores.
CBS News
In a presentation beamed to Panasonic offices around the world last week, Kazuhiro Tsuga, the company's president, stunned middle managers with the blunt message that their bonuses would be cut more than a third.
New York Times
If you were thinking of picking up a cellular-enabled tablet, you might consider dropping by an AT&T store (online or in person).
NBC News
Lenovo expects the growing market for 7-inch tablets to compete with large-screen smartphones, not PCs.
CNET
Business Week
It won't be long now until Google launches its Nexus 10. The company plans to offer the 16GB tablet on November 13 for US$399 in its Google Play store.
eWeek
Shares of small-cap OLED manufacturer Universal Display Corporation lost around 43% of their value on Wednesday.
NASDAQ.com
Sharp recently warned investors that it was on the verge of collapse after doubling its full-year net loss forecast to $5.6 billion, citing a "worse than expected drop" in LCD TV sales in Japan and China.
Hot Hardware
With Thanksgiving now just about two weeks away, it's no surprise that we're starting to see more Black Friday deals leaked.
Consumer Reports.org
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire (BSOS) substrates to meet increased demand from strategic partner Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,US.
Semiconductor Today
Microsoft was touting touch today at its Build conference. And that means for plain old laptops too.
CNET
The iPad mini has finally arrived-Apple's much anticipated response to the incredibly successful 7-inch tablets pioneered by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and more recently by Google with its Nexus 7.
Gizmodo
Monitors will grow by about half an inch in 2013, but there's be no sales bulge for resellers according to Taiwanese market-watcher WitsView.
Register (USE The Register)
Scientists from the Fraunhofer Center for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden (COMEDD) have developed glasses that allow the wearer to flip pages on a digital document using nothing but their eyes.
gizmag
Samsung has eclipsed former electronics giants like Sony thanks to the strong growth in its mobile phone sales, but the Korean company hasn't emerged as a leader in the quickly growing tablet market.
ZDNet
Samsung is set to take it right up to Apple with the Korean Company set to reveal a brand new slick TV interface and a new range of OLED TVs at the 2013 CES event in Las Vegas in January.
Smarthouse
4K is largely an increase in resolution, which is only one spect of picture quality, and not the most important.
CNETAsia
A joint venture between Sumitomo and Kazakhstan's state-owned Kazatomprom uranium mining group officially opened a rare earth metal plant Friday in the former Soviet republic.
The Japan Times
Apple's fourth generation iPad may have been a bit-player alongside the iPad mini at the launch event last week, but the 9.7-inch tablet still gets its time under the screwdriver.
SlashGear
Thought that flexible displays were a long way off before they could start showing up on smartphones?
Andorid Authority
ITRI has announced its cutting edge roll-to-roll (R2R) process on 100um flexible glass substrates at FPD International.
LaserFocus World
Electronics Weekly
Chimei Innolux (CMI), a leading flat panel manufacturer, yesterday reported gross profit margin of 3.3% for the third quarter, turning positive for the first time in two years.
China Post (USE The China Post)
Young Fast Optical, a manufacturer of small- to medium-sized touch panel sensor products, returned to the black in the third quarter on the back of rising shipments of medium-sized products, a company official said yesterday.
Taipei Times
Amtran Technology, which supplies flat-panel TVs for Vizio and other TV brands, said on Friday its net profits soared 83% to NT$1.31 billion (US$48.5 million) in the first nine months from NT$660 million a year ago.
Taipei Times
Chimei Innolux (CMI) said it expects conditions in the flat-panel display market to improve next year because of smartphone and tablet sales, after the company posted another loss because of sluggish demand and a supply glut.
NASDAQ.com
The IT & Mobile Communications division, comprising Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, IT Solutions and Digital Imaging, ended the third quarter with operating profits of KRW5.63 trillion on KRW29.92 trillion in revenue. Operating profits for the division saw 132 percent year-on-year growth.
Company release
The Sony Vaio Duo 11 has a fine set of specs for an ultrabook and an excellent full-HD touch screen on which to take advantage of the Windows 8-style interface.
CNET
AUO, a major maker of TFT-LC) panels in Taiwan, continues to ship AMOLED panels to brand vendors including HTC Cand Asus Computer. Along with massive shipments of iPad mini panels and growing pull-in deliveries for TV panels, AUO is shipping more different-sized panels as the high season in the fourth quarter approaches.
CENS
CNET TV TeamApple has finally officially unveiled its iPad Mini and it is, indeed, extremely light.
CNET
The Conference "solar meets glass - 3rd Industry Summit for Markets, Costs and Technology" held on 22 and 23 October as part of glasstec/solarpeq drew to a successful close with more than 130 participants.
Glasstec
Apple revamped its mobile PC lineup on Tuesday, announcing additions to its iPad and MacBook Pro lines. As DisplaySearch had anticipated, the company introduced the iPad Mini, a refreshed iPad (the iPad with Retina Display), and a 13.3" MacBook Pro notebook.
DisplaySearch
According to WitsView, the research division of market intelligence provider TrendForce, the dominance of G/G structure is beginning to fall, driven by the new generation products' lighter and thinner design.
EE Times India
Apple will hold a launch event in the US later today (October 23), where the technology giant is expected to unveil its much-rumoured iPad Mini tablet.
Digitial Spy
The next generation of so-called "4K" high-definition display technology for the home - giant-screen TVs with more than eight million pixels of resolution, four times the resolution of today's high-definition televisions - will be called "Ultra High-Definition" or "Ultra HD," connoting its superiority over conventional HDTV, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
The Windows ship is leaking in a dozen places, pierced beneath the waterline by very pointy iPads.
IT Pro Portal
India's tablet PC market is expected to grow at 40%to 7.3 million units in 2015-16 from 0.95 million in 2011-12, driven by government purchase and increasing affordability and desirability as lifestyle devices for the youth, hardware industry body MAIT today said.
NDTV Profit
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