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Panasonic Plans Plastic Touch Panel Mass-Production

by Tom Allen

At the end of September, Panasonic will begin mass-production of curved touch panels (5″ – 12″) for automotive use. The company says that the panel will be a highly sensitive capacitive-touch unit. Film sensors …

Tags:Curved Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Touch Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 32

UK TV Viewing Continues to Fall

by Tom Allen

A report from Ofcom shows that linear TV viewing continued to fall in the UK last year. There was a 1-minute rise in on-demand viewing, but a 12-minute fall in linear viewing. This led …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 32

JOLED Invests in OLED Printing

by Tom Allen

JOLED plans to create a research and development centre in spring next year, where work will be done to establish technologies for mid-size OLED mass production. Established by Sony and Panasonic, JOLED is targeting …

Tags:Japan| JOLED| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Aiptek Bundles Projector and Tablet

by Tom Allen

A tablet with an integrated DLP projector, the ProjectorPad P70, has been developed by Aiptek. It is a 7″ tablet, but using the projector the on-screen image can be mirrored and displayed at a …

Tags:Embedded Pico Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 32

$3 Billion OLED Investment by SDC

by Tom Allen

A report from Korea’s Money Today claims that Samsung Display is to invest $3 billion to expand OLED display module facilities in Vietnam. The result would be a more vertically-integrated supply chain in the …

Tags:APAC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 32

JCDecaux Replaces Clear Channel in London

by Tom Allen

JCDecaux has won ‘the world’s largest bus shelter advertising contract’, in London. Awarded by Transport for London, the contract is worth €700 million over a period of eight years. The current contract is held …

Tags:DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Smartphones Overtake Laptops in UK

by Tom Allen

Smartphones have overtaken laptops as the UK’s most popular device for accessing the internet, according to research by Ofcom. 66% of Brits now own a smartphone, using it for almost two hours every day …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Processing Raises Philips Monitor to 12-bit

by Tom Allen

Seeking to cater to professional users, Philips/MMD’s new 27″ monitor (272P4APJKEB) is a 27″ unit with 12-bit colour, an IPS panel and high resolution. ‘PerfectKolor’ is Philips’s name for factory-calibrated colour; this applies to …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Time for a Pebble Improvement

by Tom Allen

A new version of Pebble’s Time smartwatch is now available to pre-order. The Pebble Time Steel will be shipped within eight weeks. It is essentially the same as the highest-priced version of the watch, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 32

China Will Overtake Korea’s AMOLED Capacity

by Tom Allen

Sigmaintell Consulting predicts that global small- to medium-size LTPS AMOLED capacity will rise 30% YoY in 2015. Both South Korean and Chinese vendors are investing in production; Sigmaintell believes that China may overtake South …

Tags:AMOLED| China| Korea| Large Display Monitor| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 32

OLEDWorks Takes Lighting Grant

by Tom Allen

OLEDWorks has received $500,000 from New York State’s Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), to work on brighter OLED lighting panels. The company was one of 11 to receive funding.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lighting| OLEDs| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Samsung Abandons Remote Redesign

by Tom Allen

Samsung has abandoned its plan to redesign the TV remote (‘Project PX’), according to Variety. The company had wanted to replace the remote with a dedicated tablet, using technology gained following the acquisition of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Remote Controls| Samsung| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 32