Under Wilcox E Ink initiated or rekindled discussions with many other companies, including Amazon.
Yoffie, a professor at Harvard Business School and a former E Ink board member.
In April 2004 E Ink's technology was approved for mass production of Sony's electronic books.
Vizplex, in slurry form, is made in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a company called E Ink.
The tablet will reportedly include an LCD display from E Ink Holdings, according to DigiTimes.
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But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display.
"It's going to get harder and easier for E Ink at the same time, " says David B.
Two outfits, SiPix Imaging and Bridgestone, are working on electrophoretic displays that are similar to E Ink's.
The paper-like E Ink display features crisp, clear text that's great for reading anywhere, even in bright sunlight.
Now that it has nailed the e-book business, E Ink is diversifying again.
Imagine a micro e-reader app which uses the E Ink display instead of the main panel to conserve battery.
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While researchers worked to perfect the ink, E Ink started creating large programmable in-store billboards, which were blue and white.
Wilcox believes E Ink is out of the woods, and he is starting to tout its technology beyond the lab.
The technology generated a lot of excitement early on, in part because E Ink's founders had a tendency to overpromise.
It got money from Toppan, the Japanese printing company, which signed on with E Ink to help develop color displays.
In 1997, Jacobson and his partners joined with Russ Wilcox, an entrepreneur from Harvard Business School, to form E Ink.
Sony was interested in using E Ink screens in an electronic reader.
"There are about 30 million flexible e-ink displays in the field today - the oldest working ones are from 2006, " says Sri Peruvemba of E-Ink.
But the devices, which mimic paper using what's known as an E Ink screen, still require a measure of compromise from their converts.
In the past 15 years, E Ink has made substantial investments in inventing, designing, manufacturing and marketing ePaper displays to create new markets.
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With this purchase, E Ink will have the widest offerings of ePaper technologies, a larger set of products and a stronger patent portfolio.
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"In the recent past, we enabled an entire eReader market with our electronic paper, " said Felix Ho, Vice Chairman of E Ink Holdings.
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In January 2004 Iuliano told E Ink's board of directors that the company would run out of money before it could fix the glitches.
This new version is equipped with an E Ink Pearl display, capacitive touch and built-in Wi-Fi to download books wherever you want in seconds.
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Wilcox laid off half of the company's senior-level employees and promoted middle managers with a strong grasp of E Ink's technology and the manufacturing process.
This purchase shows E Ink's strong commitment to electronic paper displays.
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The downside: The screens on most E Ink readers on the market refresh in 1, 000 milliseconds, compared with an lcd, which typically refreshes at 8 milliseconds.
One thing all of these readers have in common: E Ink displays -- way better for reading out in the summertime sun than their LCD counterparts.
There are few things in this world quite as frustrating as a web browser on an E Ink device, and the PRS-T2 does little to change that.
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