Solid business results outside Japan, including robust sales of optical transmission systems in North America, outsourcing services in the UK, and hard disk drives in overseas markets, helped to offset sales declines in servers and PCs in Japan.

The latest Strategy Analytics report predicts that LED-based backlighting will account for almost 25 percent of the total LCD TV market in 2010.

Sony Corp. will build a pilot fabrication line to develop large-size organic electroluminescent panels by March next year, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on May 2nd.

Operating losses, however, were narrower in this year's first quarter than last, the company reported Tuesday. Wilsonville-headquartered InFocus lost $9.2 million on operations, on revenue of $112 million, compared with an operating loss of $23.5 mil