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BlackBerry Slims Workforce Again

by Tom Allen

Blackberry will cut 200 jobs, in Ontario and Florida, to cut costs, it has said. The smartphone maker is seeking a return to profitability, putting more of its focus on its enterprise software business. …

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Barco Celebrates Fifth Year of HDX

by Tom Allen

ISE 2016 was a special year for Barco of Belgium, as it marked five years of the HDX projector line – the company’s most popular projector series. There was certainly a celebratory mood in …

Soluble Materials Still Outclassed by Evaporable

by Tom Allen

The Lighting Japan 2016 conference was held in mid-January, where Sumitomo and Merck revealed the specifications of their soluble OLED materials. Compared to Universal Display’s evaporable materials, efficacy and lifetime are lower for the …

Toshiba Updates Forecasts, Deepens Loss

by Tom Allen

The accounting controversy that rocked Toshiba last year (Toshiba CEO Resigns Over Accounting Scandal) is still plaguing the firm, which has forecast its largest-ever loss for this fiscal year (ending in March): ¥710 billion …

Innolux Predicts Area Declines

by Tom Allen

Innolux’s president, Wang Jyh-chau, has said that the company expects its LCD panel shipments and ASPs to fall QoQ in Q1’16. Because of this, continued operating losses are forecast for the corresponding business operations. …

CRT TVs Can be Dangerous

by Tom Allen

To promote National TV Safety Day in the USA, which was held on the 6th February, the CTA and Safe Kids Worldwide released a worrying statistic: a child in the US dies every three …

Copper Raises OLED Efficiency to 100%

by Tom Allen

Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Cynora, and the University of St Andrews have made contributions to the advancement of OLED power efficiency, using copper. Specifically, the researchers measured the underlying quantum …

And Finally… Vol 23 No 05

by Tom Allen

Everything is moving to high resolution – even your foamy beverages. The Ripple Maker, from Israeli start-up, CC, can ‘3D print’ images and text onto the foam on a cup of coffee. As our …

SMPTE Announces New Team for 2016

by Tom Allen

SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio Services. Bob Edge …

Sony Focuses on the Details

by Tom Allen

Recently, we were invited to Sony’s UK headquarters in Surrey to view the company’s newest products – including its new TVs, recently announced at CES (Sony Hopes to Challenge OLED). Although the products were, …

BrightSign Looks at Social Media and HDR

by Tom Allen

BrightSign had no new media players, but nonetheless had lots to show and talk about. We caught CEO Jeff Hastings, who had obviously been kept very busy – his voice was extremely croaky by …

Samsung Revives Safety Truck

by Tom Allen

Eight months ago, in June 2015, Samsung tested a truck equipped with displays on the rear, which would show the road ahead of the vehicle through a camera feed (Overtaking Problem Solved by Samsung?). …

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