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Sharp
develops high-resolution LCD for mobiles
Tokyo: Sharp Corp, the world's largest maker of
liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions, said on Monday
it had developed a high-resolution LCD screen for mobile
phones that allows users to view full-sized Web pages.
Osaka-based
Sharp said its LCD panel had a screen measuring 2.6 inches
(6.55 cms) diagonally and VGA (video graphics array) quality
of 307,220 pixels, quadruple the resolution of existing
cellphone screens with 76,800 pixels.
As
a result, it will be possible to view screens with the
same clarity as a personal computer monitor on a mobile
phone, allowing users to look at spreadsheets, Web sites
or text documents.
Until
now, mobile phone Web pages have been simplified to meet
the limits of QVGA (quarter VGA) screens, but Sharp expects
the new technology to expand the uses of mobile phones.
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IBM,
EMC to share info on storage systems
New York: Computer hardware makers International
Business Machines and EMC said on Monday that they would
share information to make it easier to use EMC data storage
systems with IBM's large mainframe computers.
The
companies, which are fierce competitors in the data storage
system market, said that they will each provide information
about the programming that enables the computer and the
data storage hardware to work together.
The
Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based EMC will also license some
mainframe and storage technology from IBM, which is headquartered
in Armonk, New York.
The
move comes as data storage system makers are trying to
establish technology standards that will make it easier
for customers to manage data that is stored on systems
made by different companies.
The
agreement stops short of an exchange of application programming
interfaces, or APIs, which enable different applications
such as databases to communicate with each other. Some
companies have agreed to share that information, which
makes it easier to write software that can manage these
applications.
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