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UDC Signs OLED Agreement with Osram

by Tom Allen

Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Osram have signed a collaboration and evaluation agreement, which will see Osram begin sampling UDC’s phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) materials for use in lighting. The news comes just one month …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Osram| UDC| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Blippar Claims Project ‘Bigger Than the Internet’

by Tom Allen

Augmented reality app maker Blippar has raised $54 million in Series D funding, to help it build a ‘visual browser’ to help in augmented reality (AR) applications. CEO and co-founder Ambarish Mitra told Business …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 08

OLED Emits RGB From Same Materials

by Tom Allen

A research group at the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) (Kyushu University, Japan) has developed an OLED technology that can emit red, green and blue light using the same organic material. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 23 - Issue 08

iPhone 5SE Renamed – Before Launch

by Tom Allen

According to reports, Apple’s new iPhone will ditch its numbering system entirely. Rather than the previously-rumoured ‘iPhone 5SE’ (Apple Goes Back One Gen With New iPhone), it will instead be referred to simply as …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 08

TVs Fall as UltraHD Continues to Grow

by Tom Allen

A weakening in global TV set demand, coupled with continued LCD capacity expansion, caused TV panel oversupply in the second half of last year. IHS says that the shift to oversupply has led to …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| TV Set Market| Vol 23 - Issue 08| Worldwide

FlexEnable Curves an LCD Around the Wrist

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable is a UK-based company that was spun off from Plastic Logic last year (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), and had space on the Graphene Flagship stand – a collection of companies working …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Graphene| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Gionee Looks to AMOLED and Autofocus

by Tom Allen

China’s Gionee had placed banners along the entrance walkways of the show, promoting its newest phone, so we had to go to the stand and check it out! Like several other Chinese vendors at …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2016| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Tech Companies Must “Crack the Code” on Wearables

by Tom Allen

In a survey of ‘wearable intenders’ (those planning to purchase a wearable within six months), IDC found these people to be ‘tech savvy, high social and extremely style conscious’. They will lead the next …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 08| Wearable Market

DisplayPort 1.4 Supports Error Correction For DSC

by Tom Allen

VESA has published DisplayPort v1.4 – the first major update since v1.3, which was approved in September 2014. It is the first version of DisplayPort to use VESA’s Display Stream Compression (DSC) technology. It …

Tags:Display Stream (DSC)| DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| VESA| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Eizo Ensures Lossless Streaming

by Tom Allen

Eizo has designed a lossless encoding and streaming tool for mission-critical applications. The Re/Vue Pro supports stream resolutions up to DCI-4k, and is designed for the air traffic control (ATC) market. Two interfaces are …

Tags:Air Traffic Control (ATC)| DisplayPort| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| Vol 23 - Issue 08

ViewSonic Eliminates Tearing

by Tom Allen

Having shown off its new gaming and multimedia displays at CES (Digital Experience Has Lots to See), ViewSonic has presented them to the market, sharing prices and specs. Both the XG (gaming) and VX57-MHD …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| IPS| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| ViewSonic| Vol 23 - Issue 08

HP

3,000 Employees to Leave HP Inc

by Tom Allen

HP Inc. is accelerating its restructuring programme, and now expects about 3,000 employees to leave by the end of its current fiscal year – not over three years, as had previously been announced (HP …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 08