The WiCast kit will include an HD video transmitter and receiver in one little compact box, seen in the photo above. Users connect the PC to the TV, Blu-Ray players, games consoles or any device with an HDMI port via HDMI, while the USB port is used to keep things powered.

The Amimon’s wireless home digital interface and AMN2120/2220 chipset will be used in the WiCast kit. The price isn’t clear and it will available later this month.

That is the biggest single donation to the United Way in several years. Samsung Electronics said it made the donation to celebrate plans to invest about $3.6 billion expanding one of its fabrication buildings, bringing its total spent in Austin to more than $9 billion since 1996. Samsung Austin has promised to increase employment to more than 1,600 by 2011, and has applied for about $3.75 million in state incentives.

The program initiative works to ensure Austin’s youngest and most vulnerable children are ready to learn and succeed by the time they enter kindergarten. The program funds efforts to improve child care centers that serve low-income children and work to teach parents ways to support educational enrichment.

In recent years the limits of physics and finance faced by chip makers had loomed so large that experts feared a slowdown in the pace of miniaturization that would act like a brake on the ability to pack ever more power into ever smaller devices like laptops, smartphones and digital cameras.

In one of the two new developments, Rice researchers are reporting in Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that they have succeeded in building reliable small digital switches – an essential part of computer memory – that could shrink to a significantly smaller scale than is possible using conventional methods. More important, the advance is based on silicon oxide, one of the basic building blocks of today’s chip industry, thus easing a move toward commercialization. The scientists said that PrivaTran, a Texas startup company, has made experimental chips using the technique that can store and retrieve information.

HP researchers are set to announce that it will enter into a commercial partnership with a major semiconductor company to produce a related technology that also has the potential of pushing computer data storage to astronomical densities in the next decade.

HP and the Rice researchers are making what are called memristors, or memory resistors, switches that retain information without a source of power.

The 3D solutions offered by Panasonic will include the entire infrastructure required to create content in 3D as well as the technology to display in 3D. The 3D technology will include Panasonic integrated twin lens 3D camera for recording, along with 3D LCD video monitors that will assist in editing and mixing audios all 3D compatible. Other 3D solutions include a 3D camcorder for home use, 3D Plasma Display, 3D projection system and Blu-ray authoring (3D) system.

With live demonstration and presentations of Panasonic’s 3D technology products at Yash Raj Films Studios to have the film fraternity, Panasonic’s Dimensions aims at to reach at students of leading film & television institutes all over India.

The 15.6-inch Lifebook AH530 GFX is designed for users working with demanding graphics, pictures and video applications. The new model features on-board ATI Mobility Radeon HD550v graphics with a dedicated 1GB video memory and users may can choose between a Blu-ray drive or a DVD-drive.

The 15.6-inch high definition LCD display is in a widescreen format with a glossy finish and the AH530 also provides a HDMI output for viewing content on an external display. JVC also said that the keyboard has been designed to resist spills and features a full numeric keypad.

The AH530 GFX will be available in glossy black and ink blue, it is available for pre-order now across the EMEA region, with the first shipments planned for end of August.

The Magic Wand remote will be offered with certain LG TV models in the Infinia line of LED LCD TVs. The remote will allow the user to browse the internet applications, TV menus, embedded games and other screens of the TVs using hand controls and an onscreen cursor. The system is relatively accurate, compensates for Wii-like jittering and uses RF wireless to eliminate any need for a direct line of sight.

The remote will have six degree-of-freedom movement and a range of 30 feet from the set. Hillcrest has also announced that it has reached a global patent deal with Sony that will provide it with the same in-air pointing technology. The companies did not disclose a timetable for when they would ship the Magic Wand technology.

According to an earlier report, the Craft will cost $299.99 off-contract and sport a touchscreen display, full HTML browser, Bluetooth 2.1 and a Qualcomm CPU. It won’t be a smartphone and will instead use a simple custom OS with TouchWiz layered on top.

MetroPCS is expected to begin the rollout of its LTE network in Dallas/Fort Worth and Las Vegas first, with a complete rollout completing sometime in 2011.

Global mobile operators are tapping fourth-generation mobile services, which can transmit data as much as 10 times faster than the current third-generation services.

Fujitsu said that the agreement also incorporates SAP system maintenance as a service; and Push Mail services and IT devices.

The company said that the Patja service for Walki incorporates the availability, maintenance and management services in the Walki’s desktop and server environment, as well as telecommunications connections.

The service covers all Walki offices that besides two sites in Finland are located in Sweden, Norway, Germany, UK, France, Poland and China.

The federal lawsuit filed Monday accuses Sony Corp. of violating three patents owned by Chimei Innolux Corp. in the manufacturing of products including televisions, notebook computers and Cyber-shot digital cameras.

Chimei filed a similar federal lawsuit in Arkansas last month accusing Sony of violating three different patents.

The complaint was filed a month after Chimei filed a similar lawsuit against Sony in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.

Chimei is seeking unspecified compensatory damages, which it wants tripled because of what it considers Sony’s “willful” misconduct, and other remedies.

While recently addressing the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies conference, HP CTO Phil McKinney told the audience about a “triple-wide” HD display that the company is working on — one that can show an entire basketball court at the same time. McKinney described the view as comparable to having the “Jack Nicholson seat,” the front row mid-court spot that the actor has long had at Los Angeles Lakers games.

The tech giant is also working on gesture- or voice-based control for such a screen. To get the panoramic effect the screen requires, the source video would need to be stitched together from the footage of multiple cameras shooting slightly different areas of the same space. McKinney says HP is working with the NBA on the concept, though there’s no further word on when this would be available, at what size, and with what technical requirements. But I’m sure they’d be plenty of eager viewers if a demonstration ever gets scheduled. (Read more on VentureBeat)