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• PC monitor adoption grows to highest record in 10 years

  Dual monitor adoption in the workplace, working from home, and gaming contribute to high growth in PC monitor shipments.

• Sony high-res OLED screen attaches to any eyewear

  If you're not a fan of Google Glass-style displays yet, Sony hopes you might give its new detachable OLED a chance.

• 3 power-sipping monitors lower energy bills

  While businesses have always been careful about how much they spent on electricity, today's displays are making it a lot easier to keep bills lower -- and the environment safer.

• New DisplayPort 1.3 standard supports 5K monitors

  Monitors and TVs supporting 4K resolution are just arriving, but the new DisplayPort 1.3 is already looking forward to 5K resolution.

• LG to unveil curved ultrawide monitor at IFA

  LG Electronics is planning to show three monitors at IFA in Berlin, including a curved ultrawide model and a new 4K display.

• Sharp's high-def IGZO LCD can be made in any shape

  If Sharp's latest display is any indication, car dashboards could soon have LCDs that fit into all kinds of nooks and crannies.

• A giant, tethered tablet: Acer shows its Android Display

  Acer's DA220HQL looks like a giant Android tablet, with its 1920 x 1080 pixel, 21.5-inch touch screen -- but you wouldn't want to carry it around.

• EU fines CRT makers €1.47 billion for price-fixing

  Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of €1.47 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006.

• Sharp to launch world's thinnest 4K monitor for about US$5,500

  Sharp will start selling the industry's thinnest 4K monitor, a 32-inch LCD screen that is just 3.5mm thick, in February.

• South Korea fines flat-panel LCD display makers

  South Korea's competition watchdog has fined 10 LCD makers a total of 195 billion won ($176 million) for allegedly holding secret meetings to keep the prices for flat screen displays artificially high.

• Window shopping goes high tech with gesture recognition

  German researchers have given a new meaning to window shopping. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute showed a prototype that lets shoppers learn more about what's in a store display window when the store is closed.

• Lenovo's new portable monitor powered by USB

  Lenovo this week announced a 14-inch mobile monitor that works by plugging it into a laptop's USB port.

• EU to scrap monitor, printer, set-top box tariffs in June

  World trade authorities have ordered the European Union to scrap tariffs on three types of consumer electronics from Taiwan, Japan and the United States no later than June, ending a 3-year-old trade dispute.

• Apple wins patent on 3D projector that needs no glasses

  Apple has been awarded a U.S. patent for a display system that would allow multiple viewers to see a high-quality 3D image projected on a screen without the need for special glasses, regardless of where they are sitting.

• Three indicted for fixing prices of color display tubes

  A grand jury in San Francisco has indicted three former executives from two manufacturers of color display tubes (CDTs) for charges related to an alleged global conspiracy to fix prices of the tubes used in computer monitors and other products.