News tagged with computer monitor

Private supply ship flies by space station in test (Update)

The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday but did not stop, completing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 11

Brainput system takes some brain strain off multi-taskers

(Phys.org) -- A research team made up of members from Indiana University, Tufts and MIT and led by Erin Treacy Solovey, a has built a brain monitoring system that offloads some of the computer related activities ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Email 'vacations' decrease stress, increase concentration, researchers say

Being cut off from work email significantly reduces stress and allows employees to focus far better, according to a new study by UC Irvine and U.S. Army researchers.

Technology / Internet

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Taiwan company, execs guilty of fixing LCD prices

(AP) -- A Taiwan company and two of its top executives have been found guilty of working with competitors to inflate prices of liquid screen display screens used in computer monitors and televisions.

Technology / Business

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

iPad dispute signals new era in trademark troubles

(AP) -- iPotato, isock, icouch, istove, i-you-name-it. An Internet search for "i" words from A to Z will turn up just about any combination you might think up, from all over the world, only a handful of them ...

Technology / Business

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bankruptcy threat to iPad trademark challenger

(AP) -- A major creditor of Proview Electronics, which is challenging Apple Inc.'s use of the iPad trademark, has moved to have the ailing computer monitor maker liquidated, reports said Monday.

Technology / Business

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chinese court hears Apple appeal on iPad trademark

(AP) -- A Chinese court on Wednesday began hearing Apple's appeal of a ruling against its right to use the iPad trademark in China.

Technology / Business

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Company claiming iPad trademark sues Apple in US

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is facing yet another challenge to its use of the iPad trademark in China - this time in a court in California.

Technology / Business

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Shanghai court throws out case against Apple

A court in Shanghai threw out a civil case against Apple Inc on Thursday, citing a lack of evidence in a trademark dispute and ruled the US computer giant could continue iPad sales in the city.

Technology / Business

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chinese firm in iPad row threatens to sue Apple in US

A debt-laden Chinese computer firm embroiled in a copyright row with Apple over the iPad name on Friday threatened to sue the technology giant in the United States for $2 billion.

Technology / Business

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Samsung, Sharp in LCD price-fixing settlement

South Korea's Samsung, Japan's Sharp and five other Asian firms have agreed to a $553 million settlement for illegally fixing liquid crystal display prices, New York state's attorney general said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Personal electronics' next revolution: Home printers that make 3-D objects

Just imagine: Instead of sending Grandma a holiday photo of the family for her fridge, you call up the image on your computer monitor, click "print," and your printer produces a three-dimensional plastic model ready for hanging ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Morgan car lovers first to benefit from High Dynamic Range TV's arrival on domestic TV

HDR video captures a wider range of light intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to lowlight images and thanks to a partnership between Researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, ...

Technology / Engineering

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New test puts the squeeze on horseshoe crabs

If new technology under development proves out, horseshoe crabs will have to undergo fewer blood donations.

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Greener disaster alerts

New software allows wireless sensor networks to run at much lower energy, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Sensor Networks. The technology could improve efficiency for hurricane and other ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0