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ViewSonic Tries BETT for the First Time

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic has been developing its large interactive display business and product line and this year decided to invest in a presence with its own booth at BETT. Both ViewSonic and FlatFrog told us that …

Tags:BETT 2018| Fingerprint Recognition| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 04

BenQ Highlights Scaling Quality

by Bob Raikes

BenQ has moved from the back of the show, with a meeting room, to the front of the show over the last couple of years. The first new product that it showed us was …

Tags:BenQ| BETT 2018| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Asus Promotes Chromebooks for Education

by Bob Raikes

Asus was at the show to promote, mainly, its client devices and professional systems. The main headline at the show for the company was a new Chromebook, described to us as a new 14″ …

Tags:Asus| Chromebooks| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB Monitors| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Epson Bringing L/P Cost Closer to Lamps

by Bob Raikes

Epson had its usual presence at the show and was highlighting a theme that we heard quite a lot at the show, which is the declining gap in prices between lamp-based and laser-phosphor projectors. …

Tags:BETT 2018| Epson| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Clevertouch Doing Well Outside the UK

by Bob Raikes

The Clevertouch brand from UK distributor, Sahara Systems, has been very successful over the years in Europe and has increasingly been improving its business in a range of countries outside the UK and including …

Tags:Android| BETT 2018| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 04

BETT 2018 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

3M has been at BETT before, but not recently. At the show, it was highlighting the use of its privacy filters which are now available with higher quality. We couldn’t get technical details, but …

Tags:BETT 2018| Infrared Touch| IWBs| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Pcap (Procap)| Privacy| Vol 25 - Issue 04

CES Highlights Automotive Developments and Safety

by Bob Raikes

One thing that struck me at the annual technofest that is CES was the incredible speed of the push to autonomous and computing centric cars. I was particularly impressed with what Nvidia showed, although …

Tags:Automotive| Nvidia| Testing| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Chinese Boost OLED Plans

by Bob Raikes

The ET News in Korea summarised the latest plans of Chinese OLED makers which are being accelerated. BOE is moving its phase 2 B11 line from Q4 2019 to Q3 2018 and will order …

Tags:BOE| China| CSOT| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Qualcomm

Snapdragon 645 Boosts Foveated Rendering

by Bob Raikes

One of the features that is included in the latest Snapdragon 645, from Qualcomm, is Andreno foveation, a set of circuits for optimising gaze recognition and eye tracking. According to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch, the …

Tags:AR/VR| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Qualcomm fined €997 for Apple Exclusivity Deal

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has been fined €997 million ($1.2 billion) by the EU for a deal that the company made in 2011 that rewarded Apple for an exclusive agreement with the firm for LTE baseband modems.As …

Tags:Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

NEC InfinityBoard Now Available in EMEA

by Bob Raikes

NEC previewed its InfinityBoard at ISE last year and told us at its Showcase last spring that it would be ‘shipping soon’. Now the company has said that the displays (in 65″ and 84″) …

Tags:Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 25 - Issue 04

QDs Don’t Disappoint at CES

by Bob Raikes

Sorry for the overload this week – we (almost) finished our CES report and Matt made a thorough report on the big retail show in New York. We have a few stories from CES …

Tags:CES 2018| Corning| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 03