JEDEC Solid State Technology Association announced that it will soon publish specifications for Universal Flash Storage (UFS), which promises data throughput of 300 megabytes per second (MB/s) as well as support command queuing features to raise random read/write speeds.
iSuppli announced that one out of every five Liquid Crystal Display televisions (LCD TV) sold in the United States during the third quarter of 2010 used Light Emitting Diode (LED) backlighting.
Nvidia announced that PC manufacturers plan to launch 200 products in the first half of 2011 that feature Nvidia GeForce Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), paired with the new generation of Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs.
Futuresource Consulting announced it forecasts that over 400 million prerecorded (BD-ROM) Blu-ray video discs will be produced in 2010, rising to over two billion by 2014.
iSuppli announced that it expects manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD) to receive a late-year boost during the Christmas holidays as shipments rally in the fourth quarter.
IMS Research announced the winners of its 2010 TV Innovation Awards.
Acetrax announced the most popular films streamed through its digital movie service.
The European Commission announced that it has fined six Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel producers a total of €648.9 million (US $862 million) for operating a price fixing cartel that harmed European buyers of television sets, computers and other products.
Intel and AMD (with the support of Dell, Lenovo, LG Display and Samsung Electronics) announced that, by 2015, they will end PC support for analog display outputs (VGA, LVDS, DVI-I) and move to all digital interfaces (DisplayPort, HDMI).
OnLive, Inc. announced it has released its free OnLive Viewer for the Apple iPad and that the company is developing a version for Android.
Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. announced that its customers have downloaded one million apps from Samsung’s HDTV-based application store.