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Atlona Opening China Office to Serve Asia

by Tom Allen

Atlona is to open an office in Hong Kong in February, to serve the Asian market. The office will cover China, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea and the rest of Southeast Asia – excluding Japan, …

Tags:APAC| Large Display Monitor| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Canatu Secures CNB Design Win

by Tom Allen

Canatu has secured a design win for carbon nanobud technology, with a customer in North America. The customer required flexibility, thinness and zero haze or reflections. Canatu designed a bespoke on-cell touch solution that …

Tags:Back Panel| Canatu| CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| North America| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Epson and Infocus Popular in December

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in December. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. PMA’s top five list of 4,000+ lumen …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| North America| PMA Research| Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 03

LGD Will Retool LCD Lines for OLED

by Tom Allen

According to Japan’s Nikkei newspaper, LG Display will invest KRW850 billion ($718 million) in the LCD production lines at its Paju factory, in order to convert them to OLED. The retooling is scheduled for …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Sony

Sony Merges Playstation Units

by Tom Allen

Sony Computer Entertainment has been merged with Sony Network Entertainment, to form a new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. The new company will deal with all of Sony’s Playstation business – hardware, software, the …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Huawei is 2015’s Smartphone Success Story

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales reached new record levels at the end of 2015, thanks to multiple product offerings at all price points, in both mature and emerging markets. Preliminary IDC data shows that 399.5 million …

Tags:Apple| Huawei| IDC| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 03| Xiaomi

Gou Goes Direct to Sharp Lenders

by Tom Allen

‘A person familiar with the talks’ has told the Taipei Times that Foxconn chairman Terry Gou is taking his case for the acquisition of Sharp (Foxconn Ups Sharp Offer) directly to major lenders to …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Du Announces UltraHD for UAE

by Tom Allen

Du, a telecom provider in the UAE, has announced plans to launch its own UltraHD broadcast service. The company said that it has already agreed partnerships with several studios and facilities for content upgrades …

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Wanda Signs Dolby Cinema Deal

by Tom Allen

Wanda Cinema, a chain in China, has agreed a deal with Dolby which will bring Dolby Cinema to the country. Over the next five years, Wanda will install Dolby Cinema in 100 locations, the …

Tags:Back Panel| China| Christie| Cinema| Dolby| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Will Education Miss Out on ‘The Year of VR’?

by Tom Allen

In a recent article (Is Educational VR Content Ready for Prime Time?), my colleague Len Scrogan bemoaned the lack of VR content for education. Having just returned from BETT – arguably Europe’s largest technology …

Tags:BETT 2016| Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Distributors Represent KOE at Embedded World

by Tom Allen

Regional distributors Data Modul and MSC Technologies will represent KOE at Embedded World 2016, which runs from the 23rd – 25th February in Nuremburg. They will show off a range of KOE’s industrialised ‘Rugged+’ …

Tags:Back Panel| Germany| Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 03

AptoVision Celebrates BlueRiver Wins

by Tom Allen

AptoVision has announced 10 new design wins for its BlueRiver NT and NT+ chipsets. Aurora Multimedia; AvenView; Creator; C-Win Technologies; DVIGear; Go-Max Electronics; Grandbeing; IDK Corporation; iMAGsystems; and ZeeVee are all now using AptoVision’s …

Tags:Back Panel| ISE 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 03