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Amazon's Kindle Fire Is Built To Blaze Through Amazon Purchases

Amazon's Kindle Fire has its hardware and software shaved down to a bare minimum and woven together in a delicate mesh. But even Fire's weakness strengthens Amazon. READ»

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Pixel Qi's Screens Are Now Ready To Change How You Use Computers

After years bubbling under the success radar, Pixel Qi has revealed a large high-resolution screen that works indoors and outdoors with equal ease. If it succeeds, it could change how and where you use computers.READ»

New Gadget Mantra: The Screen's The Thing

We're used to fairly similar LCD screens on pretty much all our mobile gadgets and TVs. That's all about to change.READ»

Foldable Device Screens, Coming Soon To Your Pocket

A breakthrough in foldable OLED screen tech means a display can be folded in half like a sheet of paper without creasing. It's no exaggeration to say this could change every mobile device's design.READ»

The Amazon Kindle's New, Old Threat: Barnes & Noble's Nook Is Coming on Strong

An upgraded Nook Color is due in April. With no competing device from Amazon, can the Nook steal the Kindle's throne?READ»

Digital Signage Expo

All the world's a display -- or it soon will be, if companies like Intel have their way. A sponsor at this Las Vegas expo, Intel is the computing power behind concepts like a vending machine covered in a giant LCD touch screen. When ...READ»

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Europe Fines LCD Makers $800 Million for Price Fix Cartel

The European Commission has landed six LCD panel makers with a collective fine of over $800 million for a price-fixing cartel that operated between 2001 and 2006. Samsung, for ratting out its fellow fixers, had its fine nixed.READ»

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7-Inch Tablets: How Pixel Qi's Screen Will Go Mainstream

We've been hearing about Pixel Qi's half-E-ink, half-LCD tech for ages, but with new info on its development it looks like it's about to burst onto the mainstream. Seven-inch tablet PCs may earn Pixel Qi some deserved limelight.READ»

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Samsung Ditches Its E-paper Tech Efforts, but Retains E-publishing Plans

Need any evidence that the dedicated e-reader is destined to become a mere niche-appeal device? Here you go: Tech giant Samsung is ditching its clever, and long-heritage e-paper business. READ»

Qualcomm to Spend $2 Billion on E-ink-Busting Mirasol Display Plant

Qualcomm is about to invest some $2 billion in small change in a new plant for Mirasol displays--the half-LCD/half-e-ink screen tech that can play video in sunlight. It's all thanks to a "major client." Are we talking Amazon here?READ»

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Why Nobody Will Buy a Color E-Ink E-book Reader

E-Ink's CEO said that the company will be releasing both color and touchscreen e-ink displays for e-book readers within a year. It's too bad nobody will want one.READ»

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Nemoptic's E-Paper Plays Video, Teases the Future of E-Readers

E-paper isn't just for e-readers like the Kindle, or at least it won't be if a new tech from a firm called Nemoptic comes to fruition. The kind of e-paper display used in the Kindle, from market-leader E-Ink (electrophoretic e-paper), ...READ»

Display Wars: Pixel QI Improves its Tech, E-ink Teases its Future E-Reader Screens

Apple's IPS LCD display tech may be the bees knees of current tablet screens, but there're rivals out there, such as the Kindle's e-ink system. There's also Pixel Qi, which is a daylight-viewable LCD alternative -- and it's just got ...READ»

Samsung Predicts 50% Boost in Smartphone Sales, With OLEDs Aplenty

Samsung's peered into its cellphone crystal ball and found that the future is one where smartphones, maybe with OLED screens, supersede dumbphones. So ditch that old Nokia 8310 now!READ»

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Will Faster, Better E-Ink Save the E-Reader?

Without e-ink's technology, e-readers as an entire genre of portable gizmos wouldn't really exist: The paper and ink-like display is their main selling point. Yet e-ink's far from perfect, which is why you'll want to see next-gen ...READ»

Smart Windows: Good for Seeing Through, Generating Electricity Too

Photovoltaic solar power may be the bees knees in green power cleverness, but you still have to work out how to mount the panels on your building. That's going to be much easier now a Dutch company has combined them with ...READ»

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Pixel Qi Skips Shows You How to Bolt a Power-Saving Screen Into Your Laptop, Sidesteps Manufacturer

Pixel Qi's screen tech is impressive in many ways, and neatly solves the e-ink versus LCD question at one stroke. It's curiously not available on many devices, however. Until now, that is: Pixel Qi is releasing a DIY mod kit for ...READ»

What Apple and Amazon Job Ads Reveal About the iPad-Kindle Battle Ahead

Both Amazon and Apple have new advertisements for job openings at their companies that, if you read into the details just a little, give away many a detail on the upcoming Kindle versus iPad conflict. It's going to be very ...READ»

Will E-Ink Go the Way of Plasma? iPad Bets Yes

There's news from PVI, the makers of the Kindle's e-ink screen, that they've got new versions coming this year that'll update fast enough for "animation," have touchscreens and color. The question is, is it too little to late? The ...READ»

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Move Over, Plasma, LED, and OLED: LPD Is in Town

It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all the acronyms for high-definition TV technology--plasma, LED, LCD, DLP, OLED, and now...LPD? A Silicon Valley-based startup called Prysm has developed a Laser Phosphor Display ...READ»