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Japan PC, TV shipments continue to decline in October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that the ‘stay-at-home’ economy has slowed down in Japan with PC shipments in the country down 39.9% to 468K units in October and TVs down by 13% TO 369k …

Tags:Japan| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| TVs (TV Sets)

Black Friday Frog Kissing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There are a lot of press releases describing deals in the US on Black Friday. What We Think First, I want to wish all my US readers a very happy and …

Tags:Black Friday

OQMented Adds Funds

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a strategic deal between Dispelix and OQmented back in June (Dispelix and OQmented Form Strategic Partnership) and a couple of weeks ago, we reported that Dispelix had got …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Laser Projectors| Waveguide Display

Research: Italians families have 5 screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advance Television reported data from a survey by Auditel-Censis in Italy of over 20K homes that highlighted that in Italy there are around 14.5 million homes (46.6%) with SmartTVs, although only …

Tags:Italy| TV Viewing

Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UK government has introduced new legislation, the The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill which has three new rules. easy-to-guess default passwords preloaded on devices are banned. All products now …

Tags:Legislation| Security| Smart Home & Home Networks| Smart TV| UK (United Kingdom)

Volvo Cars Tech Fund has Invested $2M in Optics Start-Up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Volvo Cars has invested in a technology company called Spectralics (not to be confused with, as it was in the original report I saw Spectralis, which does something different!). Spectralics is …

Tags:Automotive| Financial Data| Head Up Displays HUDs| Optics

Huawei Announces 12.6” 2-in-1 OLED Tablet

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei has a new OLED-based tablet/2-in-1, the MateBook E that has the same display as the earlier MateBook Pro. Whereas the Pro version uses a Kirin 9000E, the MateBook E has …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Huawei| Notebooks| OLEDs| tablets| Windows

Panel Semi – Rising Star in Mini/Micro Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We spotted a couple of interesting videos posted on Youtube by PanelSemi, the miniLED specialist, that show some curved displays. One is in an overhead application and is designed to help …

Tags:Flexible Displays| MiniLED| Taiwan

Links Week Ending 26th November 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. LG 2022 OLED TVs: 42″ C2, 83″ …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| Germany| LG Electronics (LGE)| Microdisplays| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Panasonic| Recruitment & Appointments| Semiconductor Market| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums| STBs| Thin Clients| Vodafone| Wi-Fi

HP & Dell Release their Quarterly Results – Dell on the Up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP Inc and Dell both reported their most recent quarterly data. For HP, the quarter to the end of October was the fourth quarter in its fiscal year, while for Dell, …

Tags:Dell| Financial Data| HP Inc| Lenovo| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)