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Featured Articles » Best Buy Customer Survey Hints at Features of New Apple Television » New Transparent Screen App Lets Android Users Text and Walk at the Same Time » Samsung Techwin Releases New Surveillance Camera » Google HUD Shades Reminiscent of The Terminator's Infamous Gargoyles   Sponsored By: Next Gen Mobility Magazine   Top Stories » Konami Casino Management System Teams up with Joingo to Provide Player Mobile App » Samsung Galaxy Nexus Teardown Reveals Low-Cost LTE Baseband Chip » Motorola Showing Openness and Transparency in Tablet Data Issue » Majority of Kindle Fire Owners 'Very Satisfied' with Device   From The Expert Corner February 06, 2012 Apple's iTV: Delay for a Q2 Launch By Daniel Brecht Contributing Writer For years now, Apple (News - Alert) has been planning on producing its own full-fledged high-definition television set. All signs point to a potential 2012 release; in fact, shipment was to take place soon, but according to inside sources, there will be a delay for a quarter 2 (Q2) launch. The company has recently partnered with Sharp (News - Alert) to make the TFT-LCD panels for Apple’s upcoming iOS-dedicated HDTV, the so-called “iTV,” to allow users to sync with other Apple devices and with iCloud. Apple has already started preparing materials for the HDTV in the first quarter. Yet Apple's rumored iOS-dedicated HDTV will not launch in the second quarter but possibly in the third quarter of 2012. Speculation points to Sharp as the reason for the delay. Sources say that Sharp is not ready to begin shipping the indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) panels back to Apple for its upcoming iTV production line. As a result, the IGZO panels that are needed for the production of iTV sets have caused the delay for a Q2 launch... Read More      Featured Videos Here's the Thing: 5 Games to Get You Going in 2012    Featured Resources » Going Mobile: Mobile Customer Service Moves to the Forefront of Multi-Channel Interaction » Mobile And Social Technologies Come Late To Wealth Management » Empowering the Mobile Enterprise   Featured Channels » Mobile Unified Communications » Mobile Video » Gadgets   gadgets.tmcnet.com is Your Source for the Latest gadgets News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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