The word "ppi" is not standard in written English
It is often used in technical contexts, particularly in printing and display resolutions, meaning "pixels per inch."
Example: "The printer has a resolution of 300 ppi, which ensures high-quality images."
Alternatives: "pixels per inch" or "resolution in pixels."
In an era when tablet designs are refreshed at least every six months, users today should expect nothing less than a quad-core processor, one gigabyte of RAM, and a screen resolution offering a good deal more than a paltry 163 pixels per inch (ppi).
Being relatively small, the screen had a resolution of a then-unheard-of 200 pixels per inch (ppi).
Barnes and Noble's ground-breaking Nook HD delivers 243 ppi.
The seven-inch displays on Android tablets like Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD both provide 216 ppi.
And Apple's own Retina display is capable of 264 ppi on a full-sized iPad and a stunning 326 ppi when crammed into an iPhone 5.
Plastic Logic, which entered into a co-operation agreement with E Ink in December, has already produced backplanes with a resolution of 100 pixels per inch (ppi), the same as a laptop LCD.
Profits at Lloyds Banking Group more than halved in the first six months of the year as its bill for the payment protection insurance (PPI) scandal increased by £600m and it paid out penalties for rigging interest rates.
Bad debt provisions fell 58% to £758m.The bank is incurring £200m in costs a month for PPI and of the £10.4bn provision, some £2.1bn is to cover the cost of administrating claims.
The UK arm of Santander also took a new £65m provision for PPI after receiving claims from 300 claims management companies.
He signalled growth in the future in areas such as its Black Horse finance business, which is being helped by car sales, which it has been suggested have been fuelled by PPI claims.
"I have seen dozens of Greek Cypriots on the register of PPI [Polly Peck] because they saw how successful it was from their neighbours.
