Opera Software has announced its cooperation with Hisense, the fifth largest LED TV provider in the world. Opera will deliver its Opera Device Software Development Kit (SDK) for Linux-based devices to the company's TV model 55XT770/50K360/K300 series, and Hisense will use Opera's leading HTML5 engine to bring an enhanced TV-viewing experience to their customers.

The new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite double-underscores all of the reasons why the Kindle is a great book reader . . . and all of the reasons why so many people prefer a Kindle to an iPad or even a small tablet like the Google Nexus 7 or Amazon's own Kindle Fire HD.

Sharp has unveiled plans to apply for delisting of its common stock on the Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo bourses in Japan.

The humble stylus may be getting a radical makeover, with powerful touch and other sensors built into the tablet and smartphone accessory, according to a Microsoft patent recently approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Over in India there's an extremely cheap Android tablet being deployed by the government to families, schools and more.

Many companies including Nokia and Research in Motion have been struggling to compete with Apple and manufacturers of devices running Google's Android software. That shows in some of the earnings reports released so far for the latest quarter.

Google started selling its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan, deepening the competition with Sony, the Japanese hardware maker whose tablets also run on the world's number one search engine's operating system.

AU Optronics (AUO), one of Taiwan's leading flat panel makers, is expected to incur NT$1.28 (US$0.04) in losses per share for the third quarter, as the company will have to make provisions to cover a financial penalty in a price-fixing case, according to Daiwa Securities.

Struggling Sharp plans to slash a total of 10,966 employees in Japan and overseas, while selling its assets to generate JPY213.1 billion by the end of March next year, according to the company's restructuring plan obtained by Kyodo News on Tuesday.

Benefiting from the increasing demand from China's October 1 holiday, certain LED manufacturers have been receiving more backlight orders.

Taiwan's HTC recently launched two smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows 8 software, but the new models might not be greatly appealing to consumers, Japanese brokerage Nomura Holdings said recently.

Apple is scaling back its purchase of tablet LCD displays from Samsung's display wing, in what looks like another clear sign that Cupertino wants to reduce its dependence on the Korean giant in the wake of their recent acrimonious patent battles.

Wal-Mart Stores will no longer sell Amazon's Kindle eReaders and tablets, severing its relationship with a major competitor and placing a bet that consumers are more interested in Apple's iPad and other gadgets.

On one side, there's 4K: four times the resolution of your current TV. LG, Sony, JVC, and others have all announced or shown upcoming 4K displays.

Global TV shipments declined the second straight quarter, falling 8% on year in the second quarter of 2012, according to DisplaySearch.

Shares of AU Optronics (AUO), one of Taiwan's leading flat panel makers, staged a rebound Friday morning after a court in the U.S. handed down a smaller-than-expected fine to the company for price fixing, dealers said.

AU Optronics (AUO) Taiwan's second largest maker of liquid crystal display screens used in electronic devices, was ordered to pay US$500 million by a federal judge for colluding with rivals to fix prices on the screens.

It's no secret that I don't like Windows 8 on new or old desktops. I really thought it might have a shot on tablets though. But at these prices!? Windows RT and 8 on tablets is as dead as a mackerel.

Asus' first batch of Windows 8 tablets won't come cheap, at least according to a leaked product roadmap full of pricing details.

Driven by the popularity of tablets, personal computers grabbed a new high in customer satisfaction in the September report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

Were last year's ThinQ appliances from LG just not quite... sophisticated enough for you? Well, noble reader, screw that monocle a little tighter into your eye and get a load of this year's crop, which LG has dubbed Smart ThinQ.

Sharp's sales of display panels for tablets are less than the company expected, according to a senior executive at the Japanese company trying to negotiate a tie-up with Foxconn Technology Group.

The head of Japan-based Sharp vowed on Friday to restore profitability at the "reborn" electronics giant, just days after it announced sweeping pay cuts to repair a bleeding balance sheet.

Large panel shipments continued to grow in August, in part driven by strong demand for large-sized liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions, Taipei-based display research consultancy WitsView said Friday.

With Taiwan's panel industry into the peak season, AUO, a Taiwanese panel maker, saw revenues in August increase 10.7% month on month (to NT$35.103 billion (US$1.17 billion), with Chimei Innolux, another major panel manufacturer on the island, reaching NT$44.404 billion (US$1.48 billion) in revenues, up 11.6% on month to a new high this year, and HannStar Display revenues up 12.92% MoM to NT$3.529 billion (US$117.63 million).

US authorities are seeking a U$1 billion fine for AU Optronics, a Taiwanese company convicted earlier this year of conspiring to fix prices, in what would be the largest ever penalty levied against a company for antitrust offences.

Sharp said talks to make Hon Hai Precision Industry its biggest shareholder are stalled, with no progress made in the past week as the Taiwanese company seeks a management role in return for its capital.

Sharp may lose more money than it forecast this year, analysts predict, increasing pressure on the struggling Japanese electronics maker to raise funds and complete a stake sale to Foxconn Technology Group.

In a corner of the booth of Japan's Sharp are several prototype displays based on a new type of LCD (liquid crystal display) called IGZO.

Niels Van Duinen, global marketing director at Philips Lighting led off the Street & Area Lighting Conference on September 10 with a forward look at LED lighting and how smart-city projects will ultimately connect lighting on Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

Philips Electronics has said it will shed another 2,200 jobs as it looks to cut additional costs from the business.

Media reports say that the government is considering opening Taiwan's doors to Mainland Chinese investors in the service industry, public infrastructure, and real estate.

Wider opening to investment from China will help boost Taiwan's economy by combining its technological strength with China's market strength, according to Vice Economics Minister Francis Liang.

Amazon's tablet related announcements last week were similar to a bell ringing for round two of a prize fight. The opponent is clearly Apple, but Amazon is coming at the category leader in an unconventional manner.