With sales of 3D TVs still sluggish, Sony hopes videogames will get more consumers to embrace the technology at home.

South Korea-based global electronics company LG Electronics hopes to be the top 3D TV brand globally by the end of next year.

Acer India announced the launch of its travel series mobile projectors, the Acer C110 and Acer K330. Both the projectors are specifically created and built for multi-purpose usage such as business presentations and multimedia digital entertainment.

This monitor doesn't require a power or VGA connection, but instead gets its power/video feed from a USB port on a laptop or desktop.

It sounds like a very cool idea on first glance; touchscreen, NFC-enabled advertising in public places. Think, however, about what people do to bus stops on a daily basis. Would you really want to interact with one without gloves on?

Samsung LED announced on September 20 that its mid-power 2323 LED package has now exceeded 6,000 hours of independent, EPA recognized 3rd party IES LM80 testing and the company is now able to provide LM80 test data upon request.

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Solar Frontier will be starting to put its Kunitomi plant to serious work as it recently closed a deal to supply over 30MW of its CIS solar modules to solar projects in India by the end of 2011.

The general market slowdown in lighting is affecting companies in all parts of the supply chain, delaying Siemens' intended initial public offering of Osram, while public companies take a hit in the stock market.

The South Korean shipbuilding and shipping group dropped out amid global economic uncertainties and concerns over investments needed to keep the chipmaker competitive, STX said in a statement.

While many experts have expressed doubts about the ability of flash memory to scale and indicated the need for an alternative non-volatile memory technology, Hynix has just gone ahead and produced a 15nm NAND flash memory cell which it plans to unveil at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).

No one knows who coined the phrase "a race against time, but that's precisely the situation many programmers and operators find themselves in.

Taiwan government will continue helping Taiwanese suppliers' efforts to get preferential treatment for panels via trade negotiations.

Both Sony and JVC announced the introduction of the first so-called "4K" projectors for the home theater market. Both systems were based on liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) imaging chips but that's where the similarities ended.

Then, this morning, I was reading some about a company called Visual Planet that can turn any surface into a touchscreen using a transparent, few-millimeter-thick nanowire film.

Cambridge based Visual Planet are working on a project, which will allow any surface to be transformed into a touchscreen. The thin multitouch film drivers can be used for massive installations, allowing for touchscreens up to 167 inches in size.

SMA Solar Technology AG, the world's biggest maker of solar inverters, slashed full-year targets only days after its chief executive called the outlook challenging, confirming fears the industry bellwether was not immune to falling demand.

Developers installed 69% more US solar power capacity in the second quarter than a year earlier, led by commercial and government projects.

After the iPhone and the iPad, Apple may be working on a full-size TV (possibly with no-glasses 3D) which could also give American customers the option of a cheaper service than the present expensive cable TV offerings.

Such technology could be useful in power-sucking data centers and handheld devices with limited batter life, such as smartphone sand tablets, obviously. It could also be used for processors that don't rely on electricity from the grid, according to Intel, scavenging power from light and motion in the environment around them.

Taiwanese PC maker Acer has launched an HD ready LED projector that it is marketing as portable because it is smaller than a magazine.

The widening adoption of capacitive touch panels in tablet PCs, mobile phones and 3D TVs is encouraging China manufacturers to boost output of the display component.

Stevie Wonder gave Steve Jobs a shout out last weekend for making touchscreen devices accessible to the blind and disabled.

As Microsoft says, Metro is "touch first." You can use it with a keyboard and mouse, but any Windows 8 PC that doesn't have a touchscreen is going to feel a tad retro.

The proposal's name refers to billionaire Warren Buffett, who has complained that wealthy Americans like himself pay less than their fair share in taxes under the current tax code.

GCT Semiconductor, a maker of mobile chips used in smartphones, wireless routers and other devices, plans to raise up to US$100 million in an initial public offering, according to documents filed on September 15.