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They also discovered that the iPhone 4S includes a Skyworks 77464-20 chip and Avago ACPM-7181 power amplifier.
Macobserver
Toshiba America Electronic Components has announced the second-generation of its Visconti series of image recognition processors for automotive applications.
Company release
The completion of the acquisition also marks the official introduction of Skype as a new business division within Microsoft.
Company release
The Toronto Public Library is reporting that digital downloads from its site will hit 500,000 this year, double the number from 2010 and more than 10 times what they were in 2007.
Toronto Star
How would you feel if the only way to read the works of Shakespeare was on a Kindle?
Fox News
Mark Cambridge, CEO of touch sensor developer Zytronic, talks about how the UK-based manufacturer is benefiting from the proliferation of touch technology into a growing number of industrial and retail applications.
Electronics Weekly
TV 2 became Norway's first broadcaster to air live 3D last night when it delivered the Norway v Cyprus football match from the national football stadium in Oslo in 3D.
Digital TV Europe
Samsung's app store opened for business in February of last year, and currently enjoys an average of 50,000 downloads per day.
Chip Chick
AAI has developed a giant touchscreen tablet that could allow commanders to give orders to troops on the ground the same way you pick the angle at which you want to launch your bomb bird.
Geekosystem
WHSmith to take on Amazon with touchscreen eBook reader and access to 2.2million titles (October 13)
WHSmith is to sell a range of eReaders as it battles to counter the shift away from real books. The chain has signed a deal to stock two eReaders made by Canadian tech firm Kobo, with a starting price of 瞿89.
Daily Mail
Most solar power component makers are coping with lower margins these days because of an industry downturn -- but solar inverter makers are suffering less.
Reuters
The big number is 50. When companies can produce solar photovoltaic modules for less than 50瞽 per watt, solar energy will be able to compete directly with coal.
Business Week
Economist
Business Week
Linear, which makes semiconductors for industrial equipment and luxury cars, ranked above Microsoft and Apple - two companies with market valuations that are 30 to 50 times larger.
Bloomberg
The 2011 shipments of flat panel TVs in India are expected to grow from 5.5M units in 2011 to 20.8M units in 2015, a CAGR of 39%, according to DisplaySearch.
ECNmag.com
With volume production of the eighth-and-half-generation line by BOE in Beijing in June, China FPD industry entered the new phase of advanced generation. It is estimated that the annual output of LCD panel will reach 150 million pieces in 2014.
China Economic Net
Since Android OEMs entered the scene, mobile displays have undergone a major transformation. Makers like HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola have adopted the 4.3-inch display size as a standard, and some have released even larger devices.
PhoneDog
The Samsung 650TS 65" LCD touchscreen display is an interactive whiteboard with a high-definition LCD touchscreen enabling users to present their ideas through a seamless touch interface technology.
AME Info
A Stanford team of three has created a character-recognition program that would turn pages of Braille into readable text on an Android tablet.
Wired
Intel is disbanding its Digital Home Group, which builds SoC Atom variants for smart TVs and other similar consumer electronics devices. Boxee Box and Google TV are both based on Intel's CE4100 Atom SoC.
Hot Hardware
Consumers who picked up a Panasonic Viera TV last year can now upgrade their IPTV software to match 2011 models.
Channel News Australia
Bargains on smaller HDTVs will be plentiful this year as retailers try to make up for this year's lackluster sales so far.
TechNewsDaily
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecasts for Asia over worries about eurozone debt and new fears for the US economy.
BBC News
Industrial Technology Research Institute(ITRI) introduces HyTAC(TM), the world's first environmentally friendly polarizer protective film for LCD displays used in consumer electronics.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Compound Semiconductor
Semiconductor Today
According to the latest quarterly report from Mercom Capital Group, M&A activity in the third quarter could signal the start of a period of consolidation within the PV industry. Mercom Capital reported that there was US$563 million spent in 20 M&A transactions in the quarter with details disclosed for only eight of these downstream market deals.
PV-Tech
Moser Baer Clean Energy Limited commissioned Asia's largest solar farm in Banaskantha district of Gujarat.
The Economic Times
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