Two days prior to Samsung's announcement, LG Display, the world's second-largest, said it would set up its own Chinese venture to build a $4 billion LCD plant in Guangzhou, where it plans to start mass production in 2012.
In a separate announcement, Japan Display said it plans to acquire a plant that manufactures small- and medium-sized LCDs from Panasonic for an undisclosed sum.
Jun recently boasted about the number of patents filed by Xiaomi around its smartphones, displaying patents awarded for the camera on its new Mi Note phablet during its announcement presentation last month.
For Yahoo — and other popular sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare — the Down Right Now site collects crowd-sourced reports and official announcements and displays a list of potential service disruptions around the Web.
Bachmann's formal announcement in Waterloo displayed a more moderate politician than the flamethrower seen in Congress: no mention of Bachmann's career of opposition to abortion, to gay marriage or on other social issues, let alone her desire to reform social safety nets.
Audi began gearing up for the Frankfurt show, its de facto homecoming, in June, with the announcement of a $14.3 million display.
All this passed through my mind in a second as I read the announcement that this particular display promised a trip to the past through the aesthetic promoted by the USSR.
Today, the earphones let you pause your music to talk on the phone, just like any bluetooth-connected headset, while an accompanying mobile app will let you configure health-related alerts – like heart rate announcements – as well as display various health metrics, like distance, time, calories, duration, and O2 saturation.
Also in 2007, Google's Gmail page displayed an announcement for Gmail Paper, allowing users to have email messages printed and shipped to them.
With numbers like that, in an expo regarded as the premier event of its kind, there's no way to appropriately highlight all of the many (many) exciting developments, announcements, and experiences on display, but here are a few that totally knocked my socks off.
The college has also developed two "channels" of programming, one for short announcements and informational displays and another for long-form programming.
