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HTC Partners with Shenzhen Government for VR

by Bob Raikes

HTC has signed a deal with the Shenzen Municipal Government to set up an RMB 10 billion ($1.45 billion) fund for the development of VR and the formation of a China VR Research Institute. …

Tags:China| HTC| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Optoma Claims Brightest Fixed Lens Laser Projector

by Bob Raikes

Optoma in the US announced the ZU510T-W, a 1920 x 1200 projector based on a laser phosphor light source with 5,500 (centre) and 5,300 Ansi lumens of output and using a single 0.67″ DC3 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Optoma| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Internet Advertising Top in 2015

by Bob Raikes

The European Audiovisual Observatory released its data on the development of advertising revenues in Europe (including Russia and Turkey). It found that in 2015, internet advertising went past TV to become the top segment …

Tags:Advertising| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Amazon Prime Going Global

by Bob Raikes

Amazon is following Netflix by going global with its Prime TV business and has said the new “The Grand Tour” auto show will be released to 200 countries in December.

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Nichia Wins Injunction Against Everlight in Germany

by Bob Raikes

Nichia has been granted injunctions by the Düsseldorf District Court against Everlight over claims that the company’s white LED products infringe Nichia’s YAG patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929). Analyst Comment The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 46

JDI Working on Dual Display Phones

by Bob Raikes

The Nikkei reports that JDI has developed a dual screen concept that allows two LCDs to be used to open and close like a book and is said to be working with Chinese brands …

Tags:Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Phones| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 46

LG OLED TVs Cheap in Black Friday Build-up

by Bob Raikes

Although readers of our pdf version may not be viewing the news until Black Friday is well and truly here, we thought it worthwhile to report that LG’s OLED55B6P UltraHD OLED TV is selling …

Tags:Black Friday| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Ericsson Mobility Report Sees High Growth

by Bob Raikes

Ericsson has released its annual report on mobile data and communications and said that it believes that the US will be an important market for 5G mobile connectivity, with 25% of all subscriptions being …

Tags:Ericsson| Market Data| Mobile Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Mixed Reality Comes to Shakespeare

by Bob Raikes

The BBC has reported on a project at the historic Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK that uses mixed reality. Along with live actors, a production of “The Tempest” includes an …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Gartner Says Chinese Only Winners in Q3

by Bob Raikes

Gartner highlighted with its Q3 global smartphone sales data that Huawei, Oppo and BBK, all from China, between them took 21% of the global market in the period. They were the only smartphone vendors …

Tags:Gartner| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Visionect & BePooler

by Bob Raikes

BePooler of Switzerland has set up a system for reserving free parking systems for commuters that use the company’s Park and Ride scheme, which helps those that want to share cars on their commute. …

Tags:DOOH| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Visionect| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Smartsign Now Supports Tizen

by Bob Raikes

SmartSign software of Sweden has joined Signagelive in supporting the latest Samsung Tizen smart signage platform. The company said that it had been working with Samsung on the technology development. Analyst Comment These are …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 46