http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/21/att.sues.au.optronics.more/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/htcpure-att.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AT&T has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday against Samsung, LG Display, AU Optronics and other LCD makers for allegedly colluding on fixing the price of display panels in the US. According to a Wednesday Bloomberg report, AT&T claimed Samsung and six others have formed an illegal international cartel meant to "restrict competition in the United States in the market for... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/21/att.sues.au.optronics.more/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/01/nokia.now.a.member.of.wireless.power.consortium/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nokiawirelesscons.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Wireless Power Consortium on Thursday announced that cellphone maker Nokia has become one of its members. This is expected to result in quicker development and the more widespread use of the Qi wireless charging standard the Consortium is working on. With the addition of Nokia, the company has backed the open standards that would be shared among many makers of cell phones and other portable el... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/01/nokia.now.a.member.of.wireless.power.consortium/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/dell.lg.lenovo.suffer.criticisms/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/greenguide.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Activist group Greenpeace has released a new edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks major high-tech corporations in terms of their alleged environmental friendliness. Among the companies favored by Greenpeace's press efforts is Apple, which the group notes recently disclosed its carbon emissions. Apple has risen in rankings from 11th to 9th, aided not by the disclosure but by b... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/dell.lg.lenovo.suffer.criticisms/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/philips.intros.subtitle.shifting.blu.ray.players/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/PhilipsBDP9500intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />At the IFA 2009 show on Thursday, Philips has introduced four new Blu-ray players, including the flagship BDP9500. It has a number of video processing technologies Philips collectively calls Qdeo, which reduce noise, enhance color, and improve contrast, fine detail and depth. It also allows users to manually move where their subtitles appear on screen, and is DiVX Ultra and BD-Live compatible.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/philips.intros.subtitle.shifting.blu.ray.players/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/third.gen.aurea.gets.active.frame.net.tv/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/philipsaureaintro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Philips on Thursday introduced the third generation of its Aurea LED edge-lit LCD HDTV, which sports a 40-inch panel with 1920x1080 resolution and a unique transparent Active Frame with Ambilight Spectra that includes 250 LEDs to light it up. The frame can match the color of the images on the screen itself.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/third.gen.aurea.gets.active.frame.net.tv/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/philips.v808.android.phone/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/philipsv808.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dutch electronics firm Philips is launching into Android phones of its own in the near future, PCOnline has confirmed today. The Chinese site says the V808 will have the familiar 480x320 touchscreen common to many Android phones and should also have a 3.2-megapixel camera with video capture. If true, the phone would focus more heavily on GPS than usual and come with newer GPS software as well as... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/philips.v808.android.phone/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/17/philips.xenium.x830.photos/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/PhilipsXeniumX830intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Specs and photos for an upcoming handset from Philips, the Xenium X830, have surfaced on Friday, revealing a handsome, if entry-level device. It will support quad-band GSM voice networks and GPRS and EDGE data connections, but the phone's headline-grabbing feature is its battery's 1.5 months of standby time and 10 hours of talk time. A 3-inch, 320x240 color touchscreen acts as the interface, and t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/17/philips.xenium.x830.photos/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/17/millenniata.disc.archiving/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/Millenniata.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A Springville, IL tech company is hoping to make data loss on backed up DVDs a thing of the past, with its invention, dubbed the Millenial Disk. On September 1st, Millenniata promises to release an archival optical disc that is nearly identical to a run-of-the-mill DVD that is capable of holding corrupt-free data for 1,000 years, when stored at room temperature compared to modern DVDs being reliab... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/17/millenniata.disc.archiving/ Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/13/lcd.makers.price.fixing/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0811/lgdisplay.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The European Union's antitrust regulators have charged Philips Electronics, LG Display and a number of smaller, unnamed LCD makers with corroborating on fixing the price of LCD monitors, Philips announced on Monday. According to a Monday report, the EU antitrust regulators began their investigation in 2006, along with their US counterparts, and has now concluded that the involved firms knowingly k... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/13/lcd.makers.price.fixing/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/philips.prices.219.hdtv/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/philipscinema219intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Philips has priced its 56-inch, 21:9 aspect ratio Cinema 21:9 HDTV it first introduced just after CES in January. While release dates are still unknown, the TV will cost the equivalent of about $7,400 in Europe. The unique aspect ratio results in a complete absence of horizontal black bars without distorting the image found in movies that are shot in the widescreen format.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/philips.prices.219.hdtv/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:30:00 GMT