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According to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the joint venture's 20.8-inch prototype uses a metal membrane to help deliver light from polymers in the substrate through the glass surface at twice the efficiency of current displays.

ViewSonic first LED-based 22-inch LCD monitor (Jan 28)

ViewSonic's VLED221wm is the world's first sub-US$1000 LCD monitor with LED backlight technology.

K-NFB Reading Technology announces cellphone that reads to the blind (Jan 27)

Lighting industry survey confirms LED lighting market growth (Jan 28)

DVI on the decline as HDMI and DisplayPort grow, In-Stat reports (Jan 28)

NEC Display Solutions launches new five 17- and 19-inch desktop LCDs (Jan 28)

China in power shortage warning (Jan 23)

Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy (Jan 28)

Chinese freeze strands thousands (Jan 28)

JVC and Funai Elec to team up in LCD TVs (Jan 28)

Corning announces fourth-quarter results (Jan 28)

LCD sales jump in 2008 (Jan 21)

Sharp, the LCD TV sales leader in Japan (Jan 27)

Samsung ranked 1st in the large size LCD panel market (Jan 28)

India market: Toshiba launches 57-inch LCD TV (Jan 28)

Plasma panel market rebounds in Q3 (Jan 24)

PDP makers eye market boom (Jan 28)

Apple applies to light up laptop touchpads, iPod clickwheels (Jan 25)

Solargiga, SFK pull Hong Kong IPOs on market slump, people say (Jan 28)

IBM, AMD, could set more formal chip ties, with merger possible, sources say (Jan 23)

Japan to block some Nanya DRAM chips after Fujitsu complaint (Jan 24)

SMIC and IBM sign licensing agreement (Jan 26)

BBC Worldwide signs global network deal with MySpaceTV (Jan 24)

COMMENT: Is it worth paying extra for a Philips TV? (Jan 28)

HP introduces mobile thin client (Jan 24)

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