Corning Glass Works Chairman Amory Houghton Jr. deserved to be fired.
Philadelphia's Museum of Art, the Corning Glass Museum (in New York state) and London's mighty Victoria and Albert where a major Art Nouveau exhibition opens next April have all loaned Nancy pieces for its exhibitions.
He owns personally and Atalanta Sosnoff Capital owns for clients the following stocks cited in this commentary: Google, Phelps Dodge, Amerada Hess, Rio Tinto, Transocean, GlobalSantaFe, CONSOL Energy, Peabody Energy, Hovnanian Enterprises, Apple Computer, Corning Glass and Microsoft.
The old Corning was TV, scientific glass, Corning Ware and glass for light bulbs.
Corning manufactures glass substrates for LCDs and is one the major players in the LCD TV industry.
The enhanced super AMOLED display is enabled in part by using Corning Gorilla glass as the protective cover.
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Moving on to the display, we have a 10.1-inch Corning Gorilla Glass panel with a 1280 x 800 resolution.
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The booth will also showcase the benefits of Corning Gorilla Glass in larger format, multi-touch displays for education, entertainment and other applications.
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We had our strongest quarterly sales to date for Corning Gorilla Glass.
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It has come up with a new Corning Gorilla Glass 2, which is 20% thinner than Gorilla Glass 1 and has the same industry-leading damage resistance as its predecessor.
The XPS Duo 12 features thoughtful design, attractive aesthetics, and is crafted from premium materials such as machined aluminium and carbon fibre, as well as Corning Gorilla Glass for durability.
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Corning supplies glass to firms like Sharp, Verizon, LG Display, AU Optronics and Deutsche Telekom, with its products finding themselves on the shelves of big retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
The idea, as rumored by DigiTimes, involves doing away with the display's frame by printing colors directly onto the back of the display's reinforced glass substrate from Corning (a la Gorilla Glass presumably).
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Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.
After devising the glass used in the iPhone Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously convinced Corning CEO Wendell Weeks to manufacture the glass, which was born out of an effort called Project Muscle in the 1960s Corning says its thin, damage-resistant glass now covers screens on more than 975 devices from 33 companies.
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Glass company Corning Incorporated announced the launch of "Willow Glass, " a super thin, flexible new type of glass that can actually be can be wrapped around devices or products.
Corning developed flat glass now used for LCDs in the 1960s for car windshields.
In the meantime, expect to see more marketing from Corning promoting its glass.
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Jobs needed a new kind of scratch-proof, nearly unbreakable glass that Corning had invented.
Corning's Gorilla glass enables device makers to introduce durable display products with innovative designs.
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Corning's Gorilla glass has helped maximize Galaxy S's unique smartphone features by enabling a high-quality touch display.
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Corning now sees overall glass volume growth up slightly, rather than a previous forecast of up more than 10%.
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The Galaxy S is a fine example of a premium device created through the combination of Corning's specialty glass and Samsung's mobile display technologies.
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In Corning's wholly owned display business and Samsung Corning Precision, total glass volume is expected to be consistent to down low-single digit percentage sequentially, depending on the level of normal seasonal inventory correction expected from panel manufacturers.
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The company also has a joint venture with Samsung named Samsung Corning Precision which manufactures LCD glass.
Sony is launching 27 new Bravia TVs this year, some using Corning (GLW) Gorilla Glass for strength and durability.
This in turn will lead to higher shipment volume of LCD glass provided by Corning to various panel manufacturers like Samsung.
All the other scientists who had attempted this, including the glass experts at Corning, found that their concoctions were gelling too early, resulting in a useless product.
Corning is also pushing new glass products such as Willow Glass, a super-thin, flexible glass, and Lotus Glass, for use in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and next-generation LCD displays.
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