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E Ink Holdings, like more or less every other company out there, has had to look at its financial evolution.
Apparently, the company somehow suffered losses during the first quarter of the year (Q1 of 2012), after two years of constant profit.
More precisely, it was the first quarter when finances went down after... |
27 April 2012
09:30 GMT |
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E-readers could always do with some better screen lights, especially if said lights don't kill the battery power too fast, and Flex Lighting might have just what e-paper needs.
The secret in the company's method of casting light upon e-paper screens is that it is not a backlighting technology, but a front... |
14 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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That e-readers are doing well in terms of sales is no mystery, but for those who want to know just what numbers they enable, E Ink published its financial results for September. Besides tablets, e-readers are among the most successful products of the past couple of years, or longer, since such items have been aroun... |
19 October 2011
07:09 GMT |
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ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) represents one of the most important companies in Taiwan which deals with high-tech research and the development of new ideas. In Orlando, the company's representatives will receive two 2011 R&D 100 Awards for inventing two outstanding devices which, once used on a... |
14 October 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Even though e-readers have started using other sorts of display technologies, E Ink's e-paper is still clearly dominant, and the positive evolution of sales and revenues in the first half of 2011 makes this very clear.
Anyone who pays any level of attention to the e-book reader market will have at least once... |
19 September 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Sony is one of the main suppliers of e-book readers in the world, much like Amazon and B&N, and it has been developing a new such device, one that has finally been spotted online.E-book readers are something that many a consumer has bought as a present or for one's self.Though there seem to be many people with ... |
29 August 2011
06:13 GMT |
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E-readers must truly be growing in sales all the time if E Ink has again set a higher bar for the expected e-paper screen sales, at least according to the most recent rumors focused on such things.Tablet may be taking up a lot of the news space recently, but this does not mean all other things are fading into obscur... |
8 August 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Large computing devices rely on a combination of motherboard, CPU and auxiliary components to function, but smaller devices need more integrated solutions, like Freescale's i.MX, which just got better.Among other things, Freescale deals in application processors for e-readers, embedded devices and various consu... |
11 July 2011
09:25 GMT |
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The market for e-readers and any other devices that utilize e-paper displays definitely gave E Ink, the world's prime supplier of such things, something that qualifies as a more than substantial financial boost.Even though tablets are, at the moment, the talk of the IT industry, they aren't the only device... |
8 July 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Now that the e-reader market has mostly stabilized as a segment that will go on existing for years to come, E ink, the primary maker of displays for such items, seems to have gotten an idea of how many screens it will be able to ship.E-readers have come to the point where the main, or only, way for them to stand apa... |
27 June 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Even though it said it wasn't going to deliver any new e-reader screen this year, E Ink's booth at SID Display Week was, nonetheless, packed full of concepts and prototypes that some OEMs are said to be already considering.
This past week definitely saw the appearance of quite a few ambitious inventions... |
20 May 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Sony may be going through a really tough time with all the security breaches, but it looks like it hasn't allowed that to affect its other business outlets much, with its exhibition during the SID Display Week having been actually solid.E Ink may have said that it has no plans to release any new e-paper display... |
20 May 2011
06:01 GMT |
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At the ongoing SID Display Week trade conference, quite a few different displays have been released, many of them with 300ppi or so, and it looks like E Ink and Epson figured e-paper should be in there somewhere, not just LCDs.E Ink may have decided to not deliver any new e-paper screen this year, but it looks as th... |
17 May 2011
08:37 GMT |
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When thinking of means to add brightness to a display or another, backlighting is one of, if not the first thing that crosses developers mind, but it looks like Qualcomm chose something else for its Mirasol product.
E-readers, nowadays, do use E Ink displays, but Qualcomm has a certain screen that offers more ben... |
12 May 2011
06:58 GMT |
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E Ink may have scored a sort of record during the last quarter of 2011, but it looks like not every month so far returned positive financial results, although the situation is still one that favors the company.The one thing about finances is that they change with the times and can vary from splendid to dismal, somet... |
9 May 2011
10:14 GMT |
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In their search for means of making electronics even more compact, or part of one's very attire, it seems that one well known and one less known IT entity have each provided demonstrative videos of some interesting concepts. The thing about some display technologies is that they are flexible, thin and power-ef... |
6 May 2011
05:55 GMT |
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End-users may know of E Ink and its large role in the continued existence of e-book readers, along with other devices that employ electronic paper displays, but it seems that those wishing for a new display will have to make do without.Even though there are such things as color e-readers (the possibility of seeing t... |
3 May 2011
05:21 GMT |
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It appears that, with e-reader sales being what they are, the fourth quarter of 2010 was most rewarding in terms of revenues for a certain company that specializes in a certain sort of displays.E Ink can be said to be among the companies that saw their business rise significantly in profitability even during the eco... |
16 February 2011
09:22 GMT |
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It appears that E-Ink is doing just as fine as ever as far as finances are concerned, as its revenues seem to have continued to grow even over the course of the past month, especially on an on-year basis.Last year, even though some market segments did worse than others, the overall situation showed a vast improvemen... |
9 February 2011
05:59 GMT |
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While some e-readers already have color, they use an LCD to achieve it, but E Ink has been working on a new e-paper solution capable of color, one which Hanvon might just be the first to make use of.For those that do not know, E Ink is one of, if not the greatest supplier of electrophoretic displays and was formerly... |
20 December 2010
06:47 GMT |
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With all the sales of e-readers, which mostly still stick to e-paper as their display of choice, one would expect makers of those types of screens to be getting high revenues, and this does seem to hold true for E Ink.As end-users know, the market segment of e-readers has been rapidly growing ever since it seriously... |
15 December 2010
10:35 GMT |
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It seems that E Ink has been going through very favorable times lately, what with all the sales of e-paper screens, and it seems that the growing popularity of said devices will more than reflect upon its financial figures.As consumers no doubt know, quite a few e-book readers have been showcased and/or released ove... |
29 November 2010
04:14 GMT |
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It seems that technological wonders never cease, one of the most recent ones being a sort of method that a certain group of researchers claim to be able to turn paper into a monitor that can later be thrown into the trash.Even with all the advancements in virtual data storage and management, paper is still very much... |
23 November 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Even though e-paper screens from e-ink have the e-reader market more or less completely under control, other technologies have been surfacing form time to time, and Gamma Dynamics has been working with the University of Cincinnati on one of its own.E-paper has, so far, dominated the e-reader market because it has a ... |
8 October 2010
08:09 GMT |
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Coming to offer existing devices some competition, the new e-reader made by Kobo has finally reared its head and taken its first steps into the world, along with its wireless connectivity capabilities and access to the Kobo store.As end-users may know, e-readers grew very quickly as a market, as a testament to the e... |
29 September 2010
07:02 GMT |
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E-readers are growing in sales by the day, as is evident from how the Amazon Kindle and its rivals have been selling by the thousands, and Sony seeks to gain an edge in the competition by revealing a flexible e-paper.E-paper can be said to almost hold a monopoly over e-readers, even despite some companies' atte... |
16 September 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Even though some companies may decide e-paper is not worth their time and resources, LG apparently has the other idea, as it is not only going to keep manufacturing them, but also intends to unleash two fairly innovative ones, namely a 9.7-inch color screen and a 19-inch flexible one.E-paper is the type of display u... |
27 August 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Though it has been manufacturing e-paper screens for a while, it appears that, if reports are to be believed, Samsung has decided to completely back out of the e-paper manufacturing business, focusing, instead, on the making of liquid crystal displays (LCDs).E-paper, while it is restricted to grayscale 'color&#... |
25 August 2010
11:24 GMT |
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Though e-reader, so far, have grey scale displays developed by E Ink, with a few exceptions, the company is aware of the strong desire for color and actual touch input, so it went ahead and provided two new touchscreens and even its color e-paper products, based on the Pearl display, that have already been purchased ... |
13 August 2010
06:54 GMT |
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With the e-reader market on the rise, Amazon, B&N and others saw themselves in need of reducing their e-readers' prices, and this led to a heightened competition on the market, to the point where E Ink reportedly believes that, during the second half of 2010, the amount of shipments will actually double, if not... |
11 August 2010
09:56 GMT |
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E-readers may have looked like a promising market a few months ago, but the emergence of slates and the continued lack of color on e-paper screens seem to have reduced, at least in part, the hype of this segment. On the other hand, since slates cater to a different set of needs, it is unlikely that they are any real ... |
8 May 2010
04:12 GMT |
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When looking at the rapid rise of an emerging market, it is always interesting to see just how much of an impact it has on all the other segments it comes in contact with. In fact, a very successful device, while it may not necessarily have a great effect on its maker's position, may cause a shift in the perfor... |
17 April 2010
04:12 GMT |
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While last year was the year when netbook sales skyrocketed, this year is, among other things, expected to be the time when e-readers truly take off. Quite a number of different e-readers have already been announced or previewed, as have been new technologies for improving such devices. Among such developments is th... |
16 February 2010
03:30 GMT |
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The e-reader market segment has definitely been seeing a slew of new members recently and it seems that there are more to come. The Skiff, as well as devices from Lenovo, ASUS and Samsung have already been released and/or revealed to be part of the companies' plans for 2010. Joining the eager crowd is a company ... |
19 January 2010
03:40 GMT |
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It seems that the e-reader market is just about ready to surge, with a variety of devices having made their way into the world during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show and afterwards. Amazon's Kindle is looking ready to face some competition and companies are still considering new e-paper devices.... |
19 January 2010
03:04 GMT |
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Up until less than a month ago, the e-reader market was only represented by three or four devices, with Amazon Kindle giving all the others a serious run for their money. Now, however, after the multiple models released at the 2010 International CES, it seems that the Kindle's supremacy might be in jeopardy. Not... |
18 January 2010
08:16 GMT |
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The high demand for e-readers culminated not too long ago with Amazon's Kindle e-reader topping monthly sales records, even though only the first half of December had passed. Taking note of this, and of the fact that demand is high enough for Barnes and Noble to be unable to honor orders on time, LG decided to s... |
28 December 2009
10:43 GMT |
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Since fewer and fewer people actually do have the time to read a paperback book, there's an increased level of interest in eBook readers, those ultra-portable devices that allow you to read not one, but thousands of books, wherever you might happen to be at the moment. For this reason, everyone's trying to ... |
5 November 2008
02:09 GMT |
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It's already pretty clear that in the no-so-far-away future, electronic paper (e-paper) will be replacing the classical one, so every development in this particular area is of great interest. That's also the case with the latest announcement from display solutions manufacturer NEC, which has just introduced... |
28 October 2008
09:22 GMT |
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They say amazing things usually come in the simplest, most basic forms and after taking a look at Sequoia Studio's E-note, you’ll probably realize that nothing comes closer to the truth. In a world more and more preoccupied with going green and saving as much from our resources as possible, every piece of ... |
28 October 2008
05:28 GMT |
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For the time being, there are only three ways in which one can view the photos taken with the help of one’s mobile phone: either directly on the display of the handheld, by downloading the digital pictures onto a computer (or perhaps a digital photo frame), or by attaching the phone straight to a TV set or a pr... |
15 October 2008
07:21 GMT |
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Paper is becoming a very valuable commodity these days, simply because there are fewer and fewer forests to cut down in order to obtain cellulose, the basic material in the paper manufacturing industry. The only foreseeable solution to this issue is the introduction of e-book readers and the release of all future boo... |
18 April 2008
13:56 GMT |
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Ultra-thin, flexible displays will probably represent the paper of the future, but there's still a lot of work to be done before they'll really turn mainstream. However, it seems that the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) from Taiwan may have made an important step forward in the right directi... |
17 December 2007
00:00 GMT |
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