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Touch Screens Take Off

By David Richards| 12 Nov 2008

Hardware, Monitors & Screens


	Touch screens for notebooks, home automation and commercial applications is booming with analysts predicting that the launch of Windows 7 by Microsoft and new software from Apple that allows for easier touch screen management will grow the demand for touchscreen technology even further. According to DigiTimes and despite a gloomy display industry outlook, Taiwan’s touch panel makers have reported strong results for October chiefly driven by shipments of high-end handset applications, according to company and industry sources. Both Young Fast Optoelectronics and J Touch have announced record revenues for October. Sources with J Touch said its high-end frameless Touch Len line accounted for more than 70% of its sales in October, while the sales proportion of conventional resistive type panels dropped to 10%. The strong touch panel segment, driven by shipments to Apple’s iPhone, compensated for weak LCD panel sales said Display Search.

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David Richards has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A former Fleet Street journalist, he wrote the Award Winning Series on the Federated Ships Painters + Dockers Union for the Bulletin that led to a Royal Commission. He is also a Logie Winner for Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism with a story called The Werribee Affair. In 1997, he built the largest Australian technology media company and prior to that the third largest PR company that became the foundation company for Ogilvy PR. Today he writes about technology and the impact on both business and consumers.