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LG Display Press Release:

Seoul, Korea (July 11, 2013) – LG Display [NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220], a leading innovator of display technology, today announced that it will unveil the world’s slimmest Full HD LCD panel for smartphones. The state-of-the-art 5.2-inch panel is an exciting advancement for the premium mobile device market enabling sleeker Full HD smartphones featuring better “grip-ability” and a superior viewing experience.

Only 2.2mm thin with a 2.3mm bezel, LG Display’s new panel is both slimmest and narrowest among existing Full HD LCD panels designed for mobile devices. This world’s slimmest Full HD LCD panel will provide larger visible display space on smartphones, critical as mobile devices are used for multimedia viewing more than ever before. Additionally, the panel will make devices easier to grip as well as lighter in weight.

Key to realizing the world’s slimmest panel is LG Display’s Advanced One-Glass-Solution (OGS), the latest touch technology enabling an enhanced touch screen experience, developed and applied to the new panel for the first time ever. Dual Flexible Printed Circuits, superior to a single circuit, have been inserted between the panel and touch film, reducing the number of lines on the panel by more than 30 percent. Utilization of a direct bonding system has also resulted in Optical Clear Resin between the panel and touch film for greater brightness.

The new panel’s superiority in displaying resolution, brightness, and contrast ratio results in enhanced outdoor readability. By utilizing 1,080X1,920 pixels consisting of Red, Green, Blue (RGB) sub-pixels, the panel is a true Full HD display. And with a brightness of 535 nits at maximum, LG Display’s panel outperforms all current mobile Full HD LCD panels. Finally, measuring contrast in real-life surroundings with Ambient Contrast Ratio results in a reading of 3.74:1 based on 10,000 lux, confirming the perfect performance of the panel even in strong outdoor sunlight conditions. Renowned testing firm Intertek has officially certified these results.

“Today’s introduction of the world’s slimmest Full HD LCD panel represents an exciting advancement for the high-end smartphone segment, and is possible due to our world-class expertise in IPS and touch technologies,” said Dr. Byeong-Koo Kim, Vice President and Head of LG Display’s IT and Mobile Development Group. “LG Display will continue its commitment to developing products that maximize consumer value as well as opening new doors for the mobile and tablet PC industry.”

SoftBank today announced the completion of acquisition of the America’s 3rd-largest mobile carrier, Sprint Nextel Corporation.

SoftBank spent $21.6 billion to gain 78% of the new Sprint’s shares. In accordance with the transaction, Sprint has been renamed Sprint Communications, Inc., and Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank became Chairman of the Sprint Corporation.

SoftBank said that they plan to invest approximately $16 billion in new Sprint for their LTE network during the next 2 years to make them competitive with Verizon and AT&T.

Here’s a super quick and fun project you can make with your inner kid (or your real kid, if you have one): make perfectly green slime that oozes and gets gooey in all the right places. It’s Nickelodeon in a homemade toy. It’s realistic mutant plasma that makes you feel as if you’ve murdered an alien. If you have a soul inside you, you cannot hate this.

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Dad has a new baby.

(Credit: KOIN-TV Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Apps are one of technology’s greatest inventions.

They’re so easy to use that even a halfwit with shears for hands can discover tomorrow’s weather or the latest broccoli restaurant in Brooklyn. (It’s called Broccolyn. Surely you’ve been there.)

Sometimes, though, an app’s fluid simplicity can sail you into dangerous waters, such as allowing a 14-month-old little girl buy a car.

Sorella Stoute, the toddler in question, was just being a curious toddler when she played with her dad’s smartphone.

As KOIN-TV reported, she appears to already have a keen talent for using dad’s coins to buy things. Even if she doesn’t quite know what she’s actually doing.

Please imagine Paul Stoute’s delight when she bought him a 1962 Austin-Healey using his eBay app.

Sorella is very fond of surprises, so she didn’t tell dad anything. Not so much as a whisper.

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Gartner has released its preliminary findings on PC shipments for the second quarter of this year, reporting that gobal shipments fell by 10.9-percent over the same quarter last year. This represents a total of 76 million units shipped, and further shows the change in consumer behavior as users gravitate towards mobile devices.

According to the latest numbers, this is the fifth consecutive quarter that has seen a drop in PC shipments, making for a record in the industry. In addition, all the regions looked at globally saw a decrease in shipments, with the EMEA market in particular earning its second consecutive quarter of declining numbers in the double-digits.

The greatest drop was seen by Acer Group, which fell to 6,305,000 in shipments over 2012′s 9,743,663, a decrease of 35.3-percent. On the flip-side, Lenovo came in the strongest, falling only a tad at -0.6% over the same quarter last year (shipments totaling 12,677,265). The company’s market share, however, saw a jump from 14.9-percent to 16.7-percent.

The second in line was HP at 12,402,887 over 2012′s 13,028,822, a drop of 4.8-percent. Dell was third, with its market share growing by .8-percent while its year-on-year growth decrease by 3.9-percent. ASUS was the only other computer maker delineated by the list, with it coming in under Acer Group in terms of shipments at 4,590,071, a market share increase of only .2-percent and a growth decrease of 20.5-percent total.

Gartner’s Principal Analyst Mikako Kitagawa said: “We are seeing the PC market reduction directly tied to the shrinking installed base of PCs, as inexpensive tablets displace the low-end machines used primarily for consumption in mature and developed markets. In emerging markets, inexpensive tablets have become the first computing device for many people, who at best are deferring the purchase of a PC. This is also accounting for the collapse of the mini notebook market.”

SOURCE: Gartner

Gartner reports 2013 Q2 PC shipments fell 10.9% is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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