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News.blog: Sharp to kick off LCD price war
News The sheets of glass from this plant measure 2.16m by 2.46m. The smaller glass sheets processed in sixth and seventh generation plants (Sony and Samsung have a seventh generation plant) can only produce two and three 52-inch panels, respectively...
18 October 2006, 10:13
Sharp's hyper hi-def experimental LCD
News The plant processes eighth-generation glass sheets, which measure 2.16 by 2.46m. The smaller glass sheets processed in sixth- and seventh-generation plants can only produce two and three 52-inch panels, respectively, out of a single piece of glass.
5 October 2006, 10:46
Sharp unveils 108-inch LCD TV
News The smaller glass sheets processed in sixth- and seventh-generation plants can only produce two and three 52-inch panels, respectively, out of a single piece of glass. The factory processes eighth-generation glass sheets, which measure around 2.1m...
8 January 2007, 9:05
LCD TVs to overtake CRTs in 2009
News In these factories, large sheets of glass are spun at high speeds while liquid crystal is poured on them, much like spin-art in a tightly controlled environment. Prices are coming down because the sheets of glass (from which LCD panels are...
6 June 2006, 8:34
New tech takes the blur out of LCD TVs
News The sheets of motherglass processed in this factory measure roughly 1.8 by 2.1m. An eight-generation plant, which will turn bigger sheets of glass into TV screens, is currently under construction. This effectively doubles the number of images per...
21 November 2006, 10:51
Scented mobile phone hits Japan
News The DoCoMo mobile 'smelly phone' is the SO703i from Sony Ericsson, which uses scented sheets that produce an aroma when the device is opened. The operator said the scent sheets are designed to relax users during a phone call, according to Reuters.
18 January 2007, 9:20
Price cuts on the way for plasma?
News Shipments of plasma panels -- sheets of glass placed inside plasma televisions -- rose only 3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2006 over the same period the year before, and actually declined 4 per cent from the third quarter of 2006, according...
31 January 2007, 9:27
Microsoft dreams up low-cost mini-tablet PC
News On Monday in Seattle Microsoft plans to show off (almost) the dream portable computer--a tiny tablet computer as thin as 10 sheets of paper with a camera, a battery that lasts all day and a price of about $800.
27 April 2005, 11:56
Next Windows Explorer to fail Acid test
News In its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Web Standards Project's Acid2 test, which examines a browser's support for W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommendations including CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets), HTML4 and...
2 August 2005, 10:28
OLEDs could be looking at bright future
News OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) can be fashioned into thin sheets of polymer that emit bright light when an electrical current is applied. OLEDs, which have only recently found their way from the lab to the Consumer Electronics Show floor...
16 February 2007, 9:26
Inkjet printer hits speeds of 1,000ppm
News Instead of a moving print head, it uses a print 'screen' the size of a piece of paper or larger, covered with tiny nozzles that can print sheets "almost instantly", said Einat, of the university's department of electrical and electronics engineering.
25 September 2006, 10:18
GM drives Hummer-branded laptop
News Priced at $2,988 (£1,670), the laptops come with enough padding to survive six separate drops from a height of 75cm onto two 3/4-inch sheets of plywood placed on top of concrete. General Motors is expected to announce a new laptop next week that's...
31 August 2005, 9:23
Photos: The end of the classic film camera?
News The Cadet uses 100x130mm (4x5-inch) sheets of film, while Adams primarily used a camera that shot 200x254mm (8x10-inch) sheets, or four times the surface area. This Mamiya Super Deluxe range finder camera was released in November 1964 and had a...
26 May 2006, 10:09
Putting hi-def video on your phone
News Users will also be able to more easily zoom into relevant portions of documents or rotate files such as spread sheets and Acrobat documents more easily. Apple will release one of the most highly touted phones in history this week.
26 June 2007, 9:17
Microsoft outlines plans for IE 8
News Specifically, he said Microsoft will invest more in layout and adhering to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 specifications. Microsoft will continue to prioritise security and ease-of-use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to...
4 May 2007, 9:40


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