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Miraxess Launches Indigogo Campaign

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Mirabook smartphone ‘shell’ that converts a smartphone to a notebook format at CES (Post CES 2017 Round-Up & Smartphone Opportunities and ‘Price Gravity’). Now Mirateam, based in France, has officially …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebook Shells| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 15

ViXS Result 13/04/2017

by Bob Raikes

Vixs of Canada reported that its revenues for its fourth fiscal quarter, which ran to the end of January, were up 47% to $7.7 million from $5.2 million last year, although down on Q3 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

CE Companies Move Away from CE

by Bob Raikes

Our front page story this week is about Toshiba and its travails. It’s not the first of the big Japanese CE companies to get into trouble, most of them have been in trouble over …

Tags:Automotive| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Samsung| toshiba| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Fujitsu & Lenovo Close to Deal on PCs

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu and Lenovo are reported to be continuing with discussions about a combination of their PC businesses, but have slowed down the process, although some believe it may still happen in April. At one …

Tags:Fujitsu| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

BCom Will Show SDR/HDR Conversion

by Bob Raikes

b<>com will show its real time SDR to HDR converter at the forthcoming NAB show, in the Futures Park (booth N2035FP). b<>com will also present a SaaS version for SDR-HDR conversion. This framework uses …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

TiVo Signs Multi-Year Intellectual Property License Deal with Roku

by Bob Raikes

TiVo Corporation, a global leader in entertainment technology and audience insights, today announced Roku, Inc., a leading TV streaming platform, signed a multi-year intellectual property (IP) license agreement. The IP license covers the TiVo …

Tags:Stream TV| Streaming Video

NEC Updates Entry Level LFDs

by Bob Raikes

NEC Europe has announced its E Series entry-level professional displays which are now into their sixth generation, with S-IPS panels at 32″, 43″ and 55″ and S-PVA at 50″ to 65″. Resolution is FullHD, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Dell 30″ OLED Appears at Lower Price

by Bob Raikes

After telling us at CES that it was not planning to go ahead with the UP3017Q 30″ UltraHD monitor, Dell has started listing it on its website at the significantly reduced price of $3,499, …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Toshiba Position Goes From Bad to Worse

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba has released accounts that were not signed off by its auditors, an unprecedented move for a major Japanese company, because the auditor was concerned about the potential liabilities in the US Westinghouse nuclear …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| toshiba| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Sony eReader Has Big Pen Display

by Bob Raikes

Sony Electronics has announced in Japan a new eReader, the DPT-RP1 that uses a 13.3″ (A4) E Ink-based EPD display with 1650 x 2200 resolution and 16 grey scales. The display has a pen-based …

Tags:eReaders| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 14

FMM Improvements Allow Higher Resolution

by Bob Raikes

At the Finetech show in Tokyo, V-Technology of Japan, a maker of shadow masks for OLED deposition, had shown a fine hybrid mask (FHM) that can support up to 738 ppi. The company told …

Tags:Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Hikvision Joins the HDBaseT Alliance

by Bob Raikes

Hikvision, the worldwide leader in innovative, award-winning video surveillance products and solutions, announced today that it has joined the HDBaseT Alliance as an Adopter member. The HDBaseT Alliance was established in 2010 by LG …

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