In an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen, the crucial element is the liquid crystal itself – a liquid or semi-liquid material whose molecules behave like crystals when subjected to the influence of an electrical field. Due to their structure, some types of liquid crystal can polarize light – a property used either to allow or restrict the passage of light.

Go here to read the rest:
LCD Screens & LCD Monitors

Reuters – General Motors Co, battling for survival for much of the past year, has cut loose designers to sketch out a vision of the ultimate youth car of the future — a virtual one-wheeled wonder that would match wits with its driver.

Read more from the original source:
GM sees the driving future: it’s a video game
(Reuters)

AP – Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point is to give it a position of strength if fewer people sign up for its cable TV services and watch more video online.

Go here to read the rest:
Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content
(AP)

AP – Cisco Systems Inc. says it is waiving its condition that 90 percent of shareholders of Norwegian videoconferencing equipment firm Tandberg ASA back its $3.4 billion takeover offer and will close the deal as soon as possible.

Read the original post:
Cisco to proceed with $3.4 billion Tandberg deal
(AP)

PC World – The US$10 webcam that Anna Giesman bought her daughter at Office Depot over the Thanksgiving weekend sounds like one of those deals that’s too good to be true. And for her, it was.

Read the original here:
Thanksgiving Webcam Promo Leads to Malware
(PC World)