For the 10th annual Kandy Kane Ball on Dec. 8, a semitrailer was parked outside Joe's Bar waiting to be filled with toys from the party, described by event organizers as the largest private toy drive in the city. More than 1,000 patrons, ...
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Members of the Taiwan LED Street Lighting Alliance, in view of large growth potential for indoor LED lighting demand, on December 24 announced its transformation as the Taiwan LED Lighting Alliance to boost application of LED lighting. ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook is setting up an engineering team in London that is expected to focus on its platform and mobile development, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. The team will be kept fairly small at first and will consist ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets. The new memory, which meets a standard ...
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Lextar, a LED subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), has announced its merger with Wellypower, another AUO subsidiary. Lextar noted that demand for high-power chip-on-board (COB) products has been growing, hence 2012 COB packaging product ...
Tags: LED, COB Lextar, LED lighting, AUO, LED backlight
The 12th Five-Year Plan announced by China's government indicates targets of the semiconductor lighting industry before 2015. China's government has set up two subsidy programs.One is to subsidize LED firms and products through ...
Sharp is displaying for the first time tablet displays based on its IGZO technology at the CEATEC electronics show outside of Tokyo, amid persistent rumors Apple will use the displays in its upcoming tablets. The Japanese manufacturer, ...
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Taipei, Dec. 24, 2012 (CENS)--Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. estimates its multimedia-on-demand (MOD) subscribers will increase to 1.4 million next year after cutting the planned 1.5 million down to 1.3 million for this year, according to ...
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Toshiba's plans to put on sale worldwide next year its second generation of TVs that boast the ability to display images that exceed today's high-definition sets. The TVs have four times the resolution of HD: 3840 pixels by 2160 pixels ...
Canada - A Boston Pizza franchise owner broke away from the relaxed, family-style setting and created the first modernized restaurant in the chain. To set this location apart, a design team installed nearly 60 TVs, more than 50 speakers and ...
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Qualcomm saw a double-digit increase in sales this year and is now the world's third-largest chip maker, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 ...
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The LED TV penetration rate in 2013 is expected to fall between 80-90% largely due to major TV vendor Samsung Electronics expanding its direct-type LED TVs, according to market observers. Samsung reportedly has plans to increase the ...
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Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool Windows Live Messenger in favour of Skype's messaging tool. The announcement comes just 18 months after Microsoft announced plans to acquire internet telephony ...
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Organic LED materials specialistUniversal Display Corporation (UDC) has slashed its sales guidance for 2012, blaming push-outs of OLED TV production for the shortfall. Nearly one-third of the stock value of New Jersey-based UDC was lost ...
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