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New York Times
On Wednesday, Amazon is expected to release or announce the Kindle Tablet, an Android-based 7-inch touchscreen device that will embrace, extend, and enhance Amazon's bag of highly-successful tricks.
ExtremeTech
The Australian internet TV advertising industry is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 42% from 2011 to 2016, increasing in value from A$54m to $311m according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
Rapid TV News
A survey conducted during last month's Disney D23 Expo has revealed that consumers are being won over by 3D TV technology.
Techradar
Televisions in 2011 have taken 2010's hot trends--3D, Internet apps, and LED lighting technology for LCD sets--and made them better and cheaper.
PC World
San Francisco Chronicle
Smartphone round up:touchscreens and QWERTY keyboards offer users best of both worlds (September 27)
Traditionally a bulkier alternative, smartphones with slide out QWERTY keyboards offer the convenience of a full-featured keyboard with all the benefits of a touch screen.
Calgary Herald
The company now expects net sales to decline 6% to 8% sequentially. This compares to the initial guidance of flat to down 3% sequentially.
Company release
Finacial Times
A project to install solar panels on military housing across the US, creating thousands of jobs, has been cut back sharply after SolarCity, the company behind it, failed to secure approval for a government loan guarantee before a September 30 deadline.
Finacial Times
Recent comments made by SolarWorld's Frank Asbeck claiming that the Chinese solar companies are selling their wares at dumping prices, driving others out of the market has created some ripples, with Suntech refuting the comment. And amidst the continuing growth in China, some US companies are seeing a slump, post-Solyndra meltdown.
PV Magazine
Computerworld
Gold prices continued to plunge on September 23, despite the market turmoil that often drives investors to the traditional safe haven.
CNNMoney
A FEW days ago, Popular Science's Dan Nosowitz got a chance to try out the first of New York's new interactive, touchscreen subway information screens.
Economist
Yes, as a matter of fact, that is a 70-inch iPad screen you're seeing, and while the option to expand your iPad viewing experience doesn't come from Apple, judging from the upcoming video, it works just fine.
Web Pro News
When you're ready to build that home theater you've always dreamed about, I have the perfect television centerpiece.
USA Today
IT products manufacturer BenQ is targeting education and enterprise sectors to push further the sales of projectors in the country.
Economic Times
SunEdison's 53.5MW multi-site solar PV project in New Mexico looks set for completion by the end of this year, and has been buoyed by the news that it has secured financing of over US$200 million from financier Wells Fargo.
PV-Tech
Taiwan's LED-backlight makers have been receiving increased orders from LED-lit TV makers, which forecast the market will pick up over next few quarters.
CENS
Executives of the failed solar- panel maker Solyndra LLC are refusing to answer questions at a congressional hearing today, a sign that the first serious financial scandal of the Obama administration has arrived.
Bloomberg
TI will include National's contribution to financial performance in the company's third-quarter earnings announcement on October 24. TI's Analog semiconductor business now represents more than 50% of the company's revenues.
Company release
The latest monthly readings released Thursday on manufacturing in the eurozone, the UK and China all were weaker than they had been, as was a report on the service sector in Europe.
CNNMoney
Micron Technology has introduced a new version of its RealSSD C400 series featuring self encryption for unmatched data security.
Company release
PC Magazine
Geek With Laptop
Gamers are likely to be one of the key markets driving 3D TV sales, according to research presented Thursday at the 3D Gaming Summit.
Variety
"See What You Print" (SWYP) is like a cross between an iPad and a printer. The concept - from Artefact design - shows us printers as they should be, not the hideous, hard to use devices we are forced to use today.
Wired
Optoma introduced Thursday the PK120 pico-class video projector based on Texas Instruments' new nHD digital micro-mirror device for micro DLP light engines.
Twice
The reduction in expected revenue and profitability for the third quarter is primarily the result of reduced demand from the company's largest customer, weakness in the communications infrastructure market and softening demand from the China market.
Company release
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