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• LG Display develops flexible e-newspaper screen

  LG Display has developed a flexible electronic-paper screen that's almost as large as a tabloid newspaper, it said Thursday.

• 'Minority Report' interface shown at CES

  In a small meeting room at the edge of the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show, a startup company is demonstrating a motion-sensing interface technology that could offer a radical new way for interacting with games, PCs and televisions.

• Nokia sues LCD makers for price fixing

  Nokia is suing display manufacturers Samsung, LG, Philips, Toshiba and others for price-fixing. As a result of the price fixing Nokia has paid too much for displays, and now the company wants some of its money back, it said on Tuesday.

• Intel targets homes with new processor for TVs

  Intel's chips already go into many laptops, but it is now making a play for television sets and cable boxes through a new processor it released on Thursday.

• Intel shows laptop with four screens

  Intel is showing off a prototype laptop this week that has four screens, increasing the display area so that multiple applications can be viewed simultaneously.

• Screens still growing on mini-notebooks and netbooks

  Netbook sales keep growing, as do the sizes of their displays.

• Flexible displays: Ready to wear?

  If new research bears fruit, the next stop for flexible display technology might be the side of a commuter bus or the front of a T-shirt.

• Sharp to increase LCD panel production on higher demand

  The economy might still be in a fragile condition but it seems consumers can't get enough of flat-panel televisions. Sharp plans to increase production of LCD panels by tens of thousands of screens per month after seeing increased demand from TV makers, it said Thursday.

• 3D LCD TVs that don't require glasses coming soon

  Within the next few years, companies from Taiwan may begin selling LCD TVs with 3D (three-dimensional) viewing technology that does not require the special glasses normally used in movie theaters to show 3D films.

• Nanotouch technology shrinks touchscreen displays

  Touchscreens can only get so small before fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a project from Microsoft Research and the Hasso Plattner Institut in Germany called Nanotouch allows a touchscreen device to be controlled from its backside, preventing fingers from occluding the screen.

• LG Display on verge of launching 15-inch OLED

  LG Display is on the verge of beginning commercial production of a 15-inch OLED (organic light emitting diode) panel that's suitable for use in televisions and laptop computers, the company said Wednesday.

• Cisco plans networked screens at Yankee Stadium

  The new Yankee Stadium in New York will have networked high-definition screens from Cisco Systems that can show live game play and later switch to giving exit directions and traffic information.