At its Lotusphere 2011 conference IBMs overall theme is Social Business and the systems giant is putting its collective might behind helping businesses get more social. – ORLANDO,
Fla. – Move over Facebook, you might know
consumers, but IBM knows business. And Big
Blue has made a big push to define and capitalize on the market for “social
business.”
Indeed,
not only has IBM made social business the
thrust of its new strategy to help its customers and partners …
We’re not sure what our European brethren did to deserve this, but TV’s most controversial “guidos†are packing their cans of fake tan and heading abroad, with MTV announcing that Jersey Shore will shoot its fourth season in Italy. Already seeped in a public relations stink caused by the series premiere of its controversial new [...]
As a result, Univa will offer engineering support for current Oracle Grid Engine deployments and will release a new Univa version of the DRM by March. – Data center optimization tool provider Univa revealed Jan. 19 that the
principal engineers from the Sun/Oracle Grid Engine team, including Grid Engine
founder and original project owner Fritz Ferstl, have left Oracle and are
joining the company.
As a result, Univa will now offer engineering su…
No news on the oil & gas industry subsea service provider, owned by Swiber (AK3.SG), since November 18′s US$6.2 million ($7.97 million) contract win, but technical signs are picking up, says AmFraser’s Najeeb Jarhom.
With all unique features, benefits and always on the move to meet the increasing demand of the market, no doubt Custom software development delivers the state of the art satisfaction to industries around the world.
HLN Technologies (5HH.SG) +2.7% at $0.380 on above-average volume as the Singapore-based precision components maker seeks to diversify its earnings base by venturing into China’s real estate market.
The Sunni Central Waqf Board is expected to file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits. Advocate Zafaryab Jilani, who appeared for the Board in the High Court, confirmed that they were moving the Supreme Court on Tuesday. [...]
Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković says the decision not to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is a tactical one. The Nobel Committee decided to this year award Chinese dissident Lui Xiaobo – something that China angrily opposes.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2010 – AMD, Dell, Intel Corporation, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display today announced intentions to accelerate adoption of scalable and lower power digital interfaces such as DisplayPort and High-Definition Multimedia Interface® (HDMI) into the PC.
Intel and AMD expect that analog display outputs such as Video Graphics Array (VGA) and the low voltage differential signaling technology (LVDS) panel interface would no longer be supported in their product lines by 2015. HDMI has increasingly been included in new PCs for easy connection to consumer electronics devices. DisplayPort is expected to become the single PC digital display output for embedded flat panels, PC monitors and projectors.
DisplayPort and HDMI allow for slimmer laptop designs, and support higher resolutions with deeper color than VGA – a technology which is more than 20 years old. Additionally, as laptops get smaller and their embedded flat panel resolutions increase for more immersive experiences, the power advantages, bi-directional communications and design efficiency benefits of DisplayPort make it a superior choice over LVDS, the previous standard for LCD panel inputs.
Intel plans to end support of LVDS in 2013 and VGA in 2015 in its PC client processors and chipsets.
“Modern digital display interfaces like DisplayPort and HDMI enhance the consumer visual PC experience by immersing them with higher resolutions and deeper colors — all at lower power — to enhance battery life for laptops,” said Eric Mentzer, Intel’s vice president of Strategy, Planning and Operations for the Visual and Parallel Computing Group. “By moving to these new interfaces, Intel is able to focus investment on new innovations to enhance the PC experience rather than having to solve challenges of supporting legacy analog interfaces on our latest silicon process technology and products.”
AMD plans to begin phasing out legacy interfaces, starting with the removal of native LVDS output from most products in 2013. The company also plans to remove native VGA output starting in 2013, with expansion to all AMD products by 2015. This would mean DVI-I support will be eliminated in the same timeframe.
“Displays and display standards are rapidly evolving, with new features such as multi-display support, stereoscopic 3-D, higher resolutions and increased color depth quickly moving from early adopter and niche usage to mainstream application,” said Eric Demers, AMD’s chief technology officer, Graphics Division. “Legacy interfaces such as VGA, DVI and LVDS have not kept pace, and newer standards such as DisplayPort and HDMI clearly provide the best connectivity options moving forward. In our opinion, DisplayPort 1.2 is the future interface for PC monitors, along with HDMI 1.4a for TV connectivity.”
While the large installed base of existing VGA monitors and projectors will likely keep VGA on PC back panels beyond 2015, leading PC makers are in strong support of this transition. The DisplayPort connector interface provides backwards and forwards compatibility by supporting VGA and DVI output via certified adapters, while also providing new capabilities such as single connector multi-monitor support.
Moving to the latest digital standards like DisplayPort enables customers to preserve backwards compatibility with installed equipment while taking full advantage of the latest advances in display capabilities, configuration options, and features,” said Liam Quinn, chief technology officer, Dell Business Client.
“We live in a digital-rich world and display technology must keep up with the explosion of digital content,” said George He, chief technology officer, Lenovo. “By transitioning to digital display technologies like Display Port and HDMI customers can not only enjoy a better computing experience, they get more of what’s important to them in a laptop: more mobility, simplified design with fewer connectors, and longer battery life.“
Leading display panel manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display also are in strong support of this transition.
Samsung Electronics LCD Business is already supporting this transition with embedded DisplayPort notebook panels, which we have been shipping since March of this year,” said Seung-Hwan Moon, vice president of engineering, LCD Business, Samsung Electronics.
“LG Display is fully prepared for this future transition. We already have different sizes of LCD panels with eDP out in the market to fulfill various needs of customers.“ said Michael Kim, vice president of IT Product Planning Department at LG Display.
The strong value proposition of scalable and low power digital display interfaces for PC users coupled with industry innovation around these interfaces should accelerate overall adoption of the newer display technologies for PCs.
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About LG Display
LG Display Co., Ltd. [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220] is a leading manufacturer and supplier of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, OLEDs and flexible displays. The company provides TFT-LCD panels in a wide range of sizes and specifications for use in TVs, monitors, notebook PCs, mobile products and other various applications. LG Display currently operates eight fabrication facilities and five back-end assembly facilities in Korea, China and Poland. The company has a total of 44,000 employees operating worldwide. Please visit www.lgdisplay.com for more information.
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Global Logistic Properties (MC0.SG) stock not expected to move much after exchange filing during break clarifying an article in today’s Business Times.
GLP says the report implies a non-disclosure of material information relating to a non-competition arrangement between GLP and ProLogis in its Oct 11 IPO prospectus.
A group of hackers on Monday launched a suspected DDoS attack against the Swiss Post Finance bank website. The website, that serves more than a million customers, has effectively been offline since last night, said Swiss media.
Trek 2000 International (5AB.SG) surges, +6.0% at $0.440 vs flat at $0.415 midday after it says won ruling in US court that ThumbDrive trademark entitled to full registration with US Patent and Trademark Office; means Trek world’s only manufacturer that can sell flash drives under ThumbDrive brand.
Federal authorities are acting to prevent future leaks of classified documents and warning government employees not to read the messages already published on WikiLeaks. – With government pressure squeezing the
WikiLeaks site off U.S.-based Web hosting services, federal officials
are turning their attention to preventing future embarrassing
leaks. U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman issued a statement on Dec. 2 that
he will ask what quot;Web service providers will do…
Cheryl Cole will apparently move to Los Angeles as soon as the 6-million-pound Surrey mansion she shared with love-rat footballer Ashley is sold. The ‘Girls Aloud’ singer had also clinched a one-year 3-million-pound deal to be a judge on the US version of the X Factor. American dancer Derek Hough’s stepdad Aaron Nelson recalled how [...]
France is apparently following the example of Ireland and Hungary and seizing pension funds.According to eFinancialNews, the French parliament passed a law last week allowing 36 billion Euros to be seized from the French reserve pension fund to be used…
Basketball player Tony Parker’s sudden move to file his own divorce papers has made his wife Eva Longoria ‘very upset’. Parker filed his own divorce papers in Texas, just days after Longoria filed in California. According to the sources Longoria ”s side had absolutely no idea that Parker”s lawyer has filed the docs and the [...]
Apte, 57, will continue to have responsibility for Australia, India and the ASEAN countries, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit said in a memo to employees that was obtained by Bloomberg News. Citigroup spokesman Richard Tesvich confirmed the document’s contents, declining to comment further.
Shares of Singapore-listed property firms with exposure to the China market fell in morning trade on Monday after the Chinese central bank raised bank reserve requirements.
At 10:05 a.m., shares of Hong Kong Land <HKLD.SI> and City Developments <CTDM.SI> were down more than 2%, while CapitaLand <CATL.SI> and Keppel Land <KLAN.SI> fell nearly 1%.
“The move caused the China stock market to drop and this affected the property counters,” said a local trader.
China ordered lenders on Friday to lock up more of their money at the central bank for the second time in two weeks, stepping up its battle to pull excess cash out of the economy before inflation has a chance to take off.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer responded to frustrated stockholders by saying splitting Microsoft into smaller companies would curb its competitive edge. – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told investors Nov. 15 that
breaking up the company would weaken its ability to compete against the likes
of Apple and Google. Some shareholders have been suggesting Microsoft break
into smaller independent units as a way of boosting its stock price, which
remains lar…
Amazon Consulting will now help clients monetize alliances by expanding its focus on services and strategy for the building of channel partnerships. – Amazon Consulting, which specializes in matching up IT companies and
alleviating frictions to build strategic partnerships, on Nov. 11 announced
that it has acquired PartnerAlliances, a San Carlos, Calif.-based strategic
alliance development company.
Terms of the deal were not made available….
