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Lang Fosters Collaborative Working

by Tom Allen

In the middle of the (very European) long lunch break, Lang offered tours of its new buildings. The company has been on the Lindlar industrial estate since 1998, and in the beginning the founder’s …

Tags:Events| Germany| Lang| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Barco is Ready for Lamp-Free Projection

by Tom Allen

Barco is one of Lang’s partners, supplying projectors, LFDs and infrastructure products. Alexis Skatchkoff and Abbe Westerlundh are engineers at the firm and were talking about the company’s new developments. Barco was not the …

Samsung Reveals First Profit Growth in Two Years

by Tom Allen

Samsung Electronics reported a significant increase of 29% in Q3 2015 profits, to KR₩ 5.5 trillion ($4.7 billion), up from KR₩ 4.22 trillion YoY, although down from KR₩ 7.5 trillion QoQ. Turnover saw a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Lang in the Mist

by Tom Allen

Lang AG is a distributor, rental & staging partner and educator in the areas of large-format displays and projectors. Operating across Europe, the company celebrated the opening of a new building – the Lang …

Ambilight No Longer Limited to Display Surfaces

by Tom Allen

MMD’s newest Philips monitor, the 275C5QHGSW, features the thin-bezel Moda design and Ambiglow Plus Base. Like Ambilight, the Plus Base version creates a halo of light synchronised with displayed content – but it is …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 22 - Issue 43

JIN Relocates Fitness Tracker to the Head

by Tom Allen

JIN, a Japanese company, has shown off a wearable health tracker with a difference – it is a pair of glasses. Like wrist-worn trackers, the Jins Meme glasses have an accelerometer and gyroscope. JIN …

Tags:Eyewear| Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Wearables

Samsung Testing 820 Chip for Next Flagship

by Tom Allen

Samsung is testing and improving the Snapdragon 820 chip, in preparation for using the device in the Galaxy S7 smartphone. According to Business Korea, Samsung will release two versions of the phone: one with …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductors| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Samsung’s ‘Tablet’ is so Large it Needs a Handle

by Tom Allen

The Galaxy View is Samsung’s latest large tablet offering, first seen in a teaser during the company’s IFA press conference – and it is truly massive. Can an 18.4″ device even be described as …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Astronomers Build 364,000″ Image of Milky Way

by Tom Allen

A team of astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have built the world’s largest-ever image of the Milky Way galaxy – so big, in fact, that it would take 5,200 70″ UltraHD TVs to display …

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Photography| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Comcast Will Produce UHD HDR STB

by Tom Allen

Comcast has said that it is preparing an HDR-capable UltraHD STB for launch next year. The Xi6 will be ‘more advanced’ than this year’s Xi4, which was Comcast’s first UltraHD STB.

BT TV Enjoys Best-Ever Quarter

by Tom Allen

106,000 new TV customers joined BT in Q3, taking its net total to 1.3 million. This quarter saw the launch of BT’s UltraHD package and a new UltraHD STB.

Tags:BT| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Smartphones Approach Record High, Despite Challenges

by Tom Allen

355.2 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 this year, according to IDC: 6.8% up from the 332.6 million shipped a year ago. Although the result represented the second-highest quarter of shipments on record, …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Worldwide