Carmanah Technologies Corporation , as part of an ongoing commitment to equip Transport for London transit routes with solar-powered lighting and communications technology,

Four consumer electronics companies, including Sony and Sanyo Electric, have settled a complaint that they were infringing a patent on semiconductors related to LEDs and laser diodes used in products such as mobile phones, billboards, Blu-ray disc players and data storage devices.

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies's Mirasol MEMS displays, based on a movable membrane technology called interferometric modulation. The displays are reflective devices that offer two advantages over LEDs and OLEDs: they consume very little power and are readable under outdoor ambient lighting conditions.

Samsung has demonstrated an LCD with a field emission backlight (FEB) - achieving a claimed 300,000:1 contrast ratio. The key to this astonishingly high contrast - using an LCD panel, where 1,500:1 is generally the limit - is to make a backlight of a course array of pixels, and to turn off the pixels behind dark areas of the screen.

Nichia Corp has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the UK against Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd and its UK distributor Avnet EMG Ltd

DUSSELDORF, Germany replacing1 7,000 or so gas lamps with LEDs.

ZURICH, Switzerland! Brothers Gerard and Anton Philips founded the company now known as Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. in 1891. That company largely made its fortune making incandescent light bulbs before moving into vacuum tubes, semiconductors, consumer electronics and medical equipment. And now Frans Otten and Warner Philips, great grandsons of Anton Philips, are hoping that Lemnis Lighting BV, which is being incubated by their company, Tendris Holding, will create another fortune with a solid-state light bulb that uses LED.

Rivals LG and Samsung said they will cooperate on a jointly developed mobile DTV broadcast system for the North American technology standard. The two companies had been engaged in a fierce contest to have their rival mobile DTV systems accepted for the US standard next year. The cooperative relationship is also expected to give the resulting broadcasting system a stronger voice along side other mobile video broadcast systems, such as Qualcomm's MediaFLO, which is currently used to carry premium video content through supporting carriers.