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DISH now on Amazon Fire TV

by Bob Raikes

The Dish Anywhere app has been updated to allow the support of Amazon Fire TV products. Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are the first media players to offer Dish Anywhere and this …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Surface Studio comes to UK

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s Surface Studio all-in-one – designed for creatives – is due to be available in the UK on the 15th June. The unit will have a starting price of £2,999, with higher specification models …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Panasonic Detachable Toughbook Has Highly Specified Display

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has added to its Toughbook range by adding the “33” detachable notebook which has a 12″ 2160 x 1440 (3:2) chosen to give more vertical height for reading 8.5″ x 11 (US Letter) …

Tags:High Brightness Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Panasonic| Pen Input| Rugged Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Pixelworks to Acquire ViXS Systems

by Bob Raikes

Pixelworks is to acquire Vixs in a deal that values the company at $20.2 million, a premium of nearly 50% to the stock price at the time of the announcement. The deal is expected …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Pixelworks| ViXS| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Loewe Adds Third OLED TV Design

by Bob Raikes

Loewe of Germany has added another OLED TV to its line up, the bild 5 OLED and is said to have been inspired by the designs of the 1960s. It can be wall, floor …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Nanoco and Kyulux to Collaborate on OLED/QLED Displays

by Bob Raikes

Nanoco and Kyulux said that they would work together to develop displays that can exploit Kyulux’s hyperflourescent emitters and Nanoco’s heavy metal free quantum dots Analyst Comment I have mentioned before that it seemed …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanoco| OLED Materials| OLEDs| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Apple

Samsung & Apple Sign Contract for 2018

by Bob Raikes

The Korea Herald is reporting that Apple has signed a contract with Samsung Display for the supply of flexible OLEDs for the iPhone that will be launched in 2018, the iPhone 9. That would …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 20

NCR Brings Selfserv 80 ATMs to Europe

by Bob Raikes

NCR has brought the SelfServ 80 range of ATMs to Europe. The new series is already available in the US. A feature of the products is that the series adds connection to smart devices …

Tags:ATMs| Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Philips LFDs & Hotel TVs to Tour Germany

by Bob Raikes

MMD is taking its Professional Display LFDs and Hospitality TVs on tour in Germany in June. The cities are Munich (29th), Frankfurt (22nd), Cologne (27th) and Hamburg (29th). The full day events include training …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Hospitality TVs| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Philips| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Android Increases its Dominance in Q1

by Bob Raikes

Gartner has put out its numbers for Q1 and went through what the top brands are doing, but we have covered this with IDC & IHS (IHS Markit Sees First Positive Year-Over-Year Smartphone Shipment …

Tags:Gartner| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Sharp Buys eLux

by Bob Raikes

Foxconn will acquire US-based MicroLED company, eLux, for around $28 million through shareholdings by Sharp (31.82%), Cybernet (45.45%), Innolux (13.64%) and AOT (9.09%) – all of which are owned by Foxconn. The company was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 20