May 21, 2004
EE Times: Plastic, not glass, to spawn new breed of thin, flexible displays.
Display R&D efforts at Royal Philips Electronics are "no longer on glass-based displays," which are breakable and expensive to manufacture, said Peter Wierenga, a senior vice president with Philips Research. Instead, the company is pursuing "plastic-based and cheap manufacturing technology..."
InfoWorld: Microsoft eyeing merger of two secure e-mail specs.
E-mail experts from the Redmond, Washington, software company will spend the weekend meeting with SPF author Meng Weng Wong of Pobox.com and looking for ways to merge the closely related Caller ID and SPF standards, according to Wong.
eWEEK: ICANN's Bid to Double Budget Raises Ire.
The Internet's domain-name oversight body is proposing to double its budget and raise fees for the companies that register Web addresses—a move that is unleashing criticism about who will pay for the heftier spending.
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