The reason you are even seeing large LCD screens now is because they are getting cheaper, and that's because they are improving the manufacturing process.
For example, they build the panels on larger sheets (bigger than 1m now if i'm not mistaken,) which helps reduce the costs. The larger capacity helps make bigger screens and it also helps make smaller at lower costs. But that's not all, new generation manufacturing processes use less steps (last I heard was the development of a four-mask process instead of a five-mask), and other more complex improvements are developed all the time, like in all microelectronics-related fiels, pushing the prices down.
But, contacts in Outlook can't be used by other applications (...) By putting a "contacts" file type into the OS itself, rather than forcing applications developers to come up with their own contacts methodology.
What if ALL applications, not just Outlook, could use that new file type? What if we could associate that file type to social software services like Friendster, Tribe, Yahoo's personals, or Google's Orkut? Would that radically change how you would keep track of your contacts? Would that make contacts radically more useful?
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The reason you are even seeing large LCD screens now is because they are getting cheaper, and that's because they are improving the manufacturing process.
For example, they build the panels on larger sheets (bigger than 1m now if i'm not mistaken,) which helps reduce the costs. The larger capacity helps make bigger screens and it also helps make smaller at lower costs. But that's not all, new generation manufacturing processes use less steps (last I heard was the development of a four-mask process instead of a five-mask), and other more complex improvements are developed all the time, like in all microelectronics-related fiels, pushing the prices down.
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