IDG News Service - Japan's Sharp, struggling with deep losses and searching for a financial savior, has cut short an early retirement program after being flooded with volunteers. The company said Tuesday that it ended the program after a ...
Computerworld Hong Kong - Two hotels in Hong Kong are leveraging mobile apps to give guests a new experience during their stay. Both Hotel ICON in Tsim Sha Tsui East and L'hotel A(c)lan in Kwun Tong have integrated apps for guests' use ...
Microsoft plans to release Windows Embedded Standard 8 next March,as the company aims to bring Windows 8 features to a whole host of devices outside the PC,including ATMs,information kiosks,advertising displays and even industrial machines. ...
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IDG News Service-Intel is in final negotiations to invest up to$500 million in struggling Sharp of Japan,the Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday. Japan's largest news agency said the companies were discussing an investment of between 30 ...
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Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products,and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings,will leave the company at the end of the year. The Tokyo-based electronics giant said Tim Schaaff,who it poached ...
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Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based maker of LED epitaxial wafers and chips as well as LED backlight units (BLUs) and lighting products, on November 5 reported consolidated revenues of NT$855 million (US$29.2 million) for October, ...
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Japan's Sharp,a major supplier of LCD displays to Apple and other manufacturers,has warned that it may not survive if it can't turn around its business,an admission that caught few off guard. The Osaka-based manufacture said there ...
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Taiwan-based LED firm Lextar Electronics, a subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO) has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012. The firm reported consolidated revenue of NT$2.894 billion (US$99 million), up 10.9% from the ...
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The LED backlighting industry is expected to see production value of US$2.69 billion in 2013, about the same as this year, reported market research firm LEDinside yesterday. LED, or light-emitting diode, has become a popular technology, ...
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Chemical company Merck KGaA and Seiko Epson Corp. have signed a collaboration and license agreement regarding inks used in the production of OLED displays. According to the agreement, Merck will obtain liquids used in inkjets that dissolves ...
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Two AU Optronics (AUO) subsidiaries, Lextar and Wellypower, are set to merge. According to David Su, chairman of Lextar, the only overlapping technology between the two firms is packaging. Wellypower currently has CCFL and SMD LED products ...
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Taipei, Oct.29, 2012 (CENS)--Market consulting firm TrendForce predicts tablet PCs and smartphone will replace laptops, monitors and LCD TVs to drive growth in the LED backlight market worldwide next year. The company's studies estimate ...
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — October 9, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE ...
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Taipei, Oct. 24, 2012 (CENS)--LED maker Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. vows to snatch 50% of the non-Apple tablet PC backlight market next year. The company predicts to outperform other Taiwanese backlight manufacturers in revenue this ...
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Taiwan LED maker Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. has targeted to snatch 50% of the non-Apple tablet PC backlight market in 2013. Unity Opto attributes its advantage outperforming other Taiwanese backlight manufacturers in revenue this ...
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