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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Face-off with a hotel TV
Comment There it sits, all big and black - an old cathode ray tube enclosure weighing in at some 15kg or so. Compiled in my San Bruno, California, hotel room. Dispatched the next day from San Francisco Airport via a commercial... [23 Feb 2009]
Start-ups cash in on 'exploding' battery recalls
News Valence Technologies, which makes lithium ion batteries for cars, changed the chemistry in the cathode, while rival Altair Nanotechnologies has changed the chemistry in the anode. The cathode and the... [20 Dec 2006]
Sony slashes seven per cent of its global workforce
News The company has shelved its production of cathode ray tube, or CRT, television sets and will now focus on selling LCD and rear-projection TVs. Sony is planning a companywide restructuring that will result in the loss of... [22 Sep 2005]
Jobs annoyed at criticism of not-so-green Apple
News He went on to note that while the iPod has a small amount of lead, much more of the harmful compound is in cathode-ray tube monitors, which Apple has abandoned for all but its eMac computers. CEO Steve Jobs defended the... [22 Apr 2005]
Desk lamp iMac no longer "flat out cool"
News Only a few months after introducing the flat-panel iMac, Apple added the eMac, a lower-cost all-in-one built around a 17-inch CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor. It may have been "flat-out cool" - as Time proclaimed on its... [05 Jul 2004]
Sony struggling as profits tumble
News The electronics business saw revenue increase 0.4 per cent, to $13.8bn, as the LCD and DVD product categories grew significantly, taking over for older categories, such as cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions, which shrank. [29 Jan 2004]
Hard-up PC makers start playing games
News The machine, which includes a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, 512MB of 400MHz DDR memory, a 160GB Serial ATA hard drive, a DVD burner and a 19-inch CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor, will sell for $2,099. Game on. That's the message... [19 Aug 2003]
Flat-panel monitors take market lead
News Flat-panel monitors for desktop computers are expected to surpass traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors in revenue this year, a sea change for the display industry. Revenue from cathode ray tubes... [13 Mar 2003]
Steve Jobs hands over a rotten Apple for teacher
News The all-white eMac is an updated take on the original iMac, built around a 17-inch monitor as compared to the 15-inch cathode-ray tube monitor tube that is at the heart of the first iMac. Apple has admitted to a glitch... [02 Oct 2002]
Dell agrees $5bn Philips contract
News The agreement includes the supply of cathode-ray tubes, flat-panel monitors and storage devices. Dutch electronics giant Philips has signed a five-year $5bn deal to supply computer components to Dell. [27 Mar 2002]
PCs: the environmental cost
News Workers have also been using riverside acid baths to extract gold and silver, and breaking lead-laden cathode ray tubes and burning plastics. Obsolete computers from the west are causing an ecological disaster in... [25 Feb 2002]
The Gadget Showdown: 'Cocaine, Mrs Phillips?'
Comment On the other hand, it is quite nice to be able to sit back and stare out of the window, just letting ideas flow out over the page, rather than staring at a cathode ray screen. "OK Mrs Phillips, take dictation. [10 Apr 2001]
US state bans monitor landfilling
News A US state has moved to ban the landfill disposal of cathode ray tubes (CRT) used in televisions and PC monitors. From July, Massachusetts, the first state to take such a step, will force firms to either give their... [06 Jan 1999]
