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DOT Bans All Samsung Galaxy Note7 Phones from Airplanes

by Bob Raikes

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), today announced it is issuing an emergency order to ban all Samsung Galaxy …

Tags:Samsung| Smartphones| USA

DOT Ban of Note 7 Extended

by Bob Raikes

The US Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have banned the carriage of Samsung Note 7 devices in aircraft because of the problems of the phone catching fire. Flight crew …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 41

NOS Supports AR in Portugal

by Bob Raikes

NOS of Portugal is offering TV content in a form that can be viewed in VR on Micosoft HoloLens headsets. Video can be viewed on the glasses, with content coming from a set top …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Portugal| Vol 23 - Issue 41

LG Sets Out Gitex Plans

by Bob Raikes

LG was planning to show its ‘wallpaper’ OLEDs, Dual Curved Displays, Dual sided OLEDs and 86” Ultra-stretch Display at the Gitex show. The company also said that it has a new OLED-based Hotel TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 41

JCDecaux Extends Nice Contract

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux has won an extension to its contract with the city of Nice, France for street furniture. Initially the contract will cover 194 street furniture units and may be extended to 358 and 16 …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Brightsign Wins Pets Network

by Bob Raikes

Broadsign said that it has done a deal to work with Pets Central Media to use its players with 50″ and above displays that Pets Central is installing in Vets’ receptions. The company will …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Sharp Boosts Panel Sales to UMC

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei reported that Sharp will become the main supplier of panels to UMC of Slovakia, which currently runs and makes TVs for the Sharp TV brand in Europe. Sharp is reported to be looking …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| sharp| UMC| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Sharp Explains its Developments in PCap Touch and IGZO

by Bob Raikes

Sharp has been on a journey to build its business for touch displays and chose to work with certified value added partners. Now that journey is seeing products come to market. Sharp also showed …

Tags:IGZO| sharp| SID Display Week 2016| Touch

SID’s Sri Peruvemba Summarises SID Display Week 2016

by Bob Raikes

Display Daily got to interview SID board member and head of marketing, Sri Peruvemba about the success of the week and the plans for the next year.

Tags:E Ink| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| SID Society

On the Horns of a Trilemma!

by Bob Raikes

As you can imagine, as an editor, I love words. One of the joys of English as a language is that it has a lot of words. I have on my bookshelf a two …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Vizio Hit with Class Action over Energy

by Bob Raikes

Following the recent report on TV makers manipulating energy levels of their TVs (LG & Samsung Accused of Gaming Energy Tests), a consumer in Pennsylvania has filed a class action suit against Vizio that …

Tags:Energy Star| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 41