"...the turmoil in credit markets of the past year virtually guarantees that corporate spending on technology will fall over the next nine months or so...Technology demand, which has been growing recently at an annualised rate of 5-6%, could decline by 10%..."

At Rubicon Technology’s recent 2Q08 earnings conference call with industry analysts, the company's president and CEO discussed the future of the LED market.

PhotonStar LED has increased the efficiency of its next-generation CeilingStar5 downlighter to 70 luminaire lumens per circuit watt.

As advances in light-emitting diode technology push it into the commercial realm, component distributors are retooling their operations to help rewire buildings to take advantage of its energy-saving capabilities.

Field Emission Technologies, a Japanese R&D firm spun out of Sony in 2006, announced that it is poised to mass produce 26-inch field-emission display (FED) panels by the end of 2009. Compared with other flat-panel technologies such as LCDs and plasma displays, FEDs have long been known for their superior performance, including higher contrast ratio, lower power consumption and wider viewing angle. Charles Spindt at SRI International developed the principles for FED technology in 1968.

...the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Canon had not broken its contract with Nano-Proprietary (now called Applied Nanotech Holdings) since Canon is now the sole owner of its previous joint venture with Toshiba, SED The court also reinstated Canon's license to the SED tech, but since Canon stopped working on the tech last year, it'll probably be a while before we see any SED displays actually show up.

Seiko Epson Corp developed a 3D display that is targeted at mobile phones and can show high-resolution 3D images visible to the naked eye with no special glasses.

Litepanels has filed a lawsuit against Sony related to consumer and professional video equipment and products that infringe two of Litepanels’ patents covering LED technology.

Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has bought CoolLED's precisExcite LED fluorescence excitation system in the US, giving US microscope users access to the technology.

Sharp developed LED lighting modules for business use in factories, commercial spaces and offices, etc.

Lynk Labs, a leading developer of AC LED technology, is expanding its product offering and entering the LED device market with AC LED devices under the brand name Tesla AC LEDs.