http://pixelqi.com/blog1 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:44:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nice Article in Business week today on wanting better screens: a snippet below: The Do-Good Imperative Some of the most innovative ideas today are coming from efforts to address the needs of those most in need by Janet A. Ginsburg When I first read about the computer designed for the One Laptop Per Child project, ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/07/07/coveting-screens/ Please take a look at the job descriptions at We are searching for 5 positions 1) Director of Licensing 2) Regional Sales Director (Taiwan) 3) Senior Product Engineer 4) Senior Optics/Liquid Crystal Engineer 5) Director of Electronics Engineering If interested please submit a cover letter and your resume to Casey Hsu (casey@pixelqi.com) http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/06/06/pixel-qi-is-hiring/ The XO screen has been shown to be higher resolution than we thought. Michiel Klompenhouwer from Philips Research says the color resolution is effectively 984x738, even though strictly speaking straight division indicates color resolution of 692x520 (this is 1/3 of 1200x900 our black&white resolution). We have been saying for some time that the resolution ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/05/27/higher-resolution-than-we-thought-the-xo-laptop-screen/ While Nicholas Negroponte was unveiling the first images of the next generation OLPC laptop in Cambridge yesterday, I simultaneously was doing the exact same thing - with an audience of 3000 display professionals in Los Angeles. Pixel Qi is here at the most important display conference of the ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/05/21/next-generation-olpc-laptop/ So many new machines are coming out about the size of the XO laptop. I've heard that 50 distinct different laptop models will be introduced at Computex (in Taiwan) alone in early June. These machines use screens between 7-10" diagonals - and have been slapped together rather ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/05/13/back-to-reality/ I've been selected by Time Magazine for the "Time 100" - One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. I'm surprised, delighted and amazed. see here for the article. http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/05/02/time-100-wow/ What does “open” really mean when that which is “open” is used to make money with advertising? Lots of money goes to the content aggregators - these are those last in the chain. Why just them? Jaron Lanier asked me these questions while I was visiting him at his home ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/ April 16, 2008 By popular request I am now logging upcoming appearances on the Pixel Qi website. See: www.pixelqi.com/calendar for events where I will be speaking - Mary Lou http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/16/upcoming-public-appearances/ April 16, 2008 When asked about the Intel/OLPC break-up by Charlie Rose on his January 23 2008 broadcast, Ken Auletta of the New Yorker Magazine responds: "They [Intel] looks at it as a busines model, they probably think that if you sell it too cheap you can't make any money that way, ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/16/charlie-roseken-auletta-on-the-olpcintel-breakup/ April 13 2008 We will be in Europe, Asia and California over the next few weeks are beginning to recruit talent to our headquarters. Pixel Qi is in process of locating its new offices in the South of Market area of San Francisco. http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/16/traveling/