Suntech, the solar panel maker, has forced out its founder Shi Zhenrong, in a dispute that highlights the painful contraction in the China solar panel sector.

The China Academy of Telecommunication Research, a think tank linked to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has said that China is too reliant on Google's mobile operating system and accused the company of using its dominance to discriminate against China-based firms.

Microsoft has recently been offering price breaks on its Windows 8 and Office software to help spur the development of small, touch-enabled laptop computers, people familiar with the situation said.

As of today, March 5, all China-made solar modules and their main components coming into the EU must register with national customs authorities.

After an earlier complaint against Nichia was rejected, Everlight has uncovered additional details to bolster its claim that fictitious results were included in a Nichia patent application.

Spencer Kelly discovers that 2014 could the year when touchscreens are launched which react in three dimensions that do not even require touch to recognise what action the device should take.

AndroidForNook offers a Nook-to-Android download option for just $9.99. It's available for all four of the aforementioned Nook models, and you can use it with your own 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB card.

An incredible 80% of men in the UK admit playing on their smartphone or Internet tablet during dinner, according to a new survey.

Products that use the flexible displays touted as a candidate screen for the rumoured Apple iWatch could still be years away.

LDK Solar announced the sale of 5,000,000 newly issued ordinary shares of LDK Solar to Fulai Investments Limited, at a purchase price of US$1.83 per share with an aggregate purchase price of US$9,150,000, thereby completing the first portion of the transaction contemplated in its share purchase agreement dated January 21, 2013 with Fulai Investments Limited.

Samsung has failed to secure a iPhone ban in Japan in its latest patent fight with Apple.

Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.

The European Union threatened to impose tariffs on solar glass from China to curb import competition for EU producers, heightening trade tensions over renewable energy.

Samsung's newest addition to the Note series uses an 8-inch display. But don't worry, it still comes with the same special S Pen stylus and apps that gave the original its name.

If you know what a liquid is (key properties include that it flows and changes shape to fit the container in which it sits), and have a memory of copper sulphate crystals at the bottom of a test-tube from school chemistry lessons, the idea of a liquid crystal may seem a bit odd. It is, however, a well-defined state of matter which sits comfortably between liquids and crystals in its underlying molecular packing.

Today, Apple's In-Cell display patent application has come to light. Yet perhaps the real story here is that Apple has clearly stated that this technology could apply to Macs and went out of their way to list the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and even a future iMac.

Last year, the touch screen market was projected to reach approximately $14 billion, according to IDTechEx.

Sharp Corp has developed technology for reprocessing the glass from used LCD panels, a discovery seen helping to lower recycling costs for consumers.

Solar could overtake oil as the world's dominant energy source by 2060 in one scenario envisioned by Royal Dutch Shell.

SanDisk has announced that the iNAND Extreme Embedded Flash Drive (EFD) supports tablet reference designs based on the Nvidia Tegra 4.

High moisture barriers have been one of the toughest nuts to crack for flexible, organic electronics.

Since 2010, there has been growth beyond expectations in the adoption of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, which has called for larger volumes of CMOS image sensor chips to be produced.

If you're buying a new TV and care more about picture quality than anything else, plasma is still definitely the best TV tech to go for. That's the view of Fabrice Estornel, the head of Panasonic's TV business in the UK.

The touch panel market is growing rapidly due to the increasing sale of smartphones and tablet PCs. The touch panel market size in 2012 was 1.3 billion units, a 39.4% growth over 2011.

Tim Cook doesn't think much of OLEDs, and he doesn't think you should, either.

A smartphone with a transparent screen always seamed like a thing of the future, but judging by recent developments, this future might not be that far.