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Last we heard of Velocity Micro it was coughing up licensing fees to Microsoft for its Android range, so it makes sense that the company should have a few new products to make the most of that spend.
SlashGear
Sony's two recently unveiled tablets, the Tablet S and Tablet P, are rumoured to become the first real competitors to Apple's iPad and iPad 2.
Computer World Australia
PIOL, a joint venture between Panasonic Electric Works and Idemitsu Kosan Company in Japan, began shipping OLED lighting panels to local and overseas lighting module and fixture manufacturers this month.
LEDs Magazine
Semiconductor Today
Sony is using CEDIA Expo 2011 here this week to unveil several new high-end ES-series products that are said to achieve new performance excellence levels for the custom and A/V specialty markets.
Twice
At this year's IFA International conference in Berlin, ROB RAIKES of the European Digital Market research company - Meko, asks the question,'Where all the OLEDs have gone?'
Gadget
Profit margins on LCD Televisions have been falling steadily over the last few years, and the 3D TV craze has largely failed to boost them up again. So what's a manufacturer to do? Sharp thinks "Go Bigger".
Vizworld
Digital security provider NagraID Arrow Secure Card (NASC) plans to introduce credit and debit cards equipped with a LCD display to show a one-time password (OTP) for secure online transactions.
Times of India
As smartphones get larger and buttons disappear, one technology constantly finds itself in the limelight: display technology.
PhoneDog
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
When Maurio Medley, an eighth-grade math teacher at Ocoee Middle School in central Florida, wants to teach his students how to find the volume of a cylinder, he doesn't turn to a textbook or chalkboard. Instead, he turns on a 3-D-enabled projector to rotate a virtual Euclidian solid.
Wall Street Journal
An LG executive said Tuesday that the firm's rival Samsung Electronics is moving away from the active 3-D display technology and develop its own "passive" technology for its TVs.
Korea Herald
South Korea's LG Electronics said it has tied up with Dutch giant Philips and Japan's Sharp to ramp up production of applications for Internet-powered televisions.
The Peninsula
South Korea's exports of information technology (IT) products reached 13.06 billion U.S. dollars in August due to strong demand for the locally-made smartphones and TVs, a government report showed Wednesday.
Xinhuanet
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Among Sony's releases at IFA is one that could put a dent in Kindle's dominance of the eReader space - the 6-inch Sony Reader Wi-Fi.
gizmag
The rumours are unstoppable: Amazon is going to unveil a tablet in the next few weeks, and if the hands-on description of an internal prototype by MG Siegler over at Techcrunch are even vaguely correct, then it's going to be a 7in device with a colour touchscreen running a forked version of Android, at a price around $250. (UK price still unknown).
Guardian
The HP TouchPad saw massive consumer frenzy as soon as the device's price was lowered to $99. HP itself was shocked by the want that was generated during the fire sale.
International Bussiness Times
Despite being the only TechCrunch writer in Seattle, I don't get out to Microsoft nearly as much as one might expect. The fact is it's on the other side of a big lake and getting there usually involves a lot of traffic.
TechCrunch
Following strong performance in the nine months since its appointment as a Samsung distributor to the CI trade, AWE embarks on a new phase of growth with the introduction of Samsung new ELITE and D8000 Smart TV's plus the launch of its dedicated Samsung Smart View Media Player (Galaxy S Wi Fi 5.0) Touch Panel promotion.
Hidden Wires
The state-owned Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) is seeking a stake in a plant planned by Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group in the Latin American country, said Brazil's science and technology minister Friday.
Focus Taiwan news channel
Amazon.com's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Android tablet has been one of the worst kept secrets for months since CEO Jeff Bezos alluded to it.
eWeek
With three of Japan's leading LCD makers set to merge into the world's largest display entity, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) may want to think twice about further antagonizing South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC) with patent-related lawsuits.
EBN
Television, the world's most popular entertainment and information medium before the advent of the Internet, is not about to give up its hallowed place in the hearts and homes of its global audience, including Filipinos.
INQUIRER.net
Today at the IFA trade show in Berlin, LG announced the European availability of the LW980S, its highest-end 2011 LCD TV. We expect a similar announcement of a U.S. version soon, perhaps at the CEDIA trade show in Indianapolis next week.
CNET
What if you could ask the author of a book a question while you were reading the book? That's the kind of world Amazon wants to offer with its new @author feature, which the online bookstore launched on Wednesday with a group of writers who include Susan Orlean and self-help guru Tim Ferriss.
Business Week
Barnes & Noble forecast that its e-reader business would double in size to $1.8bn over the next year, even as it reported another quarterly loss as its Nook device competes with Amazon's Kindle in a capital-intensive battle for market share.
Financial Times (USE The Financial Times)
Price and design are the two biggest factors driving the e-reader market; and in the past, Sony severely dragged its feet on the former. But today the company has rectified the situation with the introduction of the newest Sony Reader Wi-Fi PRS-T1.
PC World
Wall Street Journal
Samsung Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., today announced its newest lines of LED/LCD thin- and zero-client PC-over-IP Cloud Station monitors, which provide an alternative to desktop PCs, enabling highly secure access to any PCoIP-enabled remote host.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Sony is returning to its innovative roots with the introduction of a head-mounted display that simulates a 62.5-foot screen.
CNET
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of computing, consumer electronics and communications solutions, today announced its two latest LCD large format graphics and professional monitors -- the VG2732m-LED and VP2765-LED.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Sony Electronics, trying to advance its music players into the modern age of digital devices, showed a prototype today of a new Walkman based on Google's Android operating system--and CNET got the first public look.
CNET
The days of using light bulbs as a political football may be drawing to a swift and un-melodramatic close, now that the company Lighting Science Group has announced the development of a new 60-watt equivalent LED lightbulb that will retail for under US$15.00.
Cleantechnica
Osram AG (Munich, Germany), the lighting subsidiary of Siemens AG, is celebrating the opening of a pilot-line manufacturing plant for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).
LEDs Magazine
International Bussiness Times
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