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N1 is Nokia’s Android Surprise

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The Nokia brand is known for Windows and Windows Phone products – especially since the acquisition of the smartphone unit by Microsoft. Now the Finnish company has surprised everyone by releasing a high-end Android …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor

Motorola Mobility Loses Price-fixing Appeal

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A US court has rejected an antitrust lawsuit brought by Motorola Mobility against several Asian LCD manufacturers. Many companies have pleaded guilty and been fined in the price-fixing cartel which operated between 2001 and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Motorola| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Microvision Result 14/11/14

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Microvision Inc. narrowed its third quarter net loss to $3.3 million from $3.6 million a year earlier, while turnover was little changed year on year at $968,000 compared with $964,000. The company’s net loss …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor

Microvision Receives Second Component Order

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Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43), Microvision signed a $1.5 million agreement with a Fortune Global 100 customer. The customer has now followed this with an additional $1.9 million purchase order …

Tags:Back Panel| Microdisplays| Microvision| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Lufthansa Takes Off With Surface Pro 3

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German airline Lufthansa will begin equipping its pilots with the Surface Pro 3 tablet from next year, replacing the existing cockpit laptops. More than 5,000 tablets have been ordered, as well as special docking …

Tags:Aviation| Back Panel| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Dolby High Dynamic Range Solution on Display at SMPTE Conference

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Dolby was at the SMPTE Fall conference in Hollywood demonstrating its High Dynamic Range (HDR) solution — from camera through post, distribution and to the home. HDR was a topic of great interest at …

Tags:Dolby| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| SMPTE 2014

Harmonic Explains Virtualization at SMPTE Conference

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Virtualization means different things to different people. At Harmonic, the idea is to move away from dozens of dedicated hardware boxes in a broadcast facility to a topology where the Harmonic IP and functionality …

Tags:Broadcast| Cloud Computing

SRI International Shows Visual Broadcast Test Methods at SMPTE

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SRI International offers test patterns that can look at bit depth, chroma sampling, frame rates, conversions, audio sync and much more – and provide visual feedback on compliance and errors. Driving the system is …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

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Aries Epica Launches Autostereoscopic Products

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3DTV – The Aries Epic Group (Dubai) is a consortium of independent firms with global headquarters in the Middle East and subsidiaries in India and Singapore. Under the Aries Epica brand name, the company …

Tags:3D TV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

SiliconCore Shows 1.2mm LED at Gitex

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At Gitex 2014 in Dubai, SiliconCore showed the word’s first 1.2mm pitch LED display, enabled by its new driver chip which can drive 640 LEDs. Steve Scorse tells us about it and also about …

Tags:Gitex 2014| LED| SiliconCore| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP