Tom Allen – Page 281 – Display Daily

Philadelphia Regulates Signage

by Tom Allen

The city of Philadelphia has introduced new signage regulations, limiting the amount of advertising in the city. For every new digital billboard erected, two static billboards must be removed.

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Merck Makes €30 Million OLED Investment

by Tom Allen

Merck has begun construction on a new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The 2,000m² facility, which will be the target of a €30 million investment, will start production of materials for displays …

Wiko’s Dramatically Cuts Resolution

by Tom Allen

Wiko’s Rainbow smartphones are offered in white, black, green red or blue.French manufacturer Wiko has followed its Rainbow smartphone with a ‘concentrated version’ called the Rainbow Lite. It is an entry-level model (the tag …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Nokia Plans Smartphone Return

by Tom Allen

Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, has said that he wants to resurrect the brand’s name on smartphones. Speaking to Germany’s Manager Magazin, Sureev said that Microsoft will lose control of the brand name in …

Business Tablet Use Continues Quick Climb

by Tom Allen

Business tablet adoption is accelerating in the UK, France and Germany, says IDC. Penetration is expected to exceed 15% of the total client base by 2018 – compared to just 6% in the second …

First Fall for MEA Tablets

by Tom Allen

After several years of successive gains, the MEA tablet market recorded its first-ever YoY decline in Q1’15, says IDC. Shipments fell 5.8%, to just over 3.8 million units. IDC said that the lower performance …

Tags:IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Italy Likely to Miss 2020 Deadline

by Tom Allen

Italy’s communications regulator, Agcom, has said that the country is unlikely to meet the 2020 deadline for turning the 700MHz spectrum over to the telecoms sector. Agcom’s Vincenzo Lobianco said that a switch to …

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Apple Has Been Testing UltraHD For Years

by Tom Allen

Leaked emails from Sony show that Apple has been licensing the company’s UltraHD content for testing purposes since 2013. Although not earth-shattering, it does show that Apple is interested in the format – which …

V-Nova Shows Flexibility in Paris

by Tom Allen

V-Nova has demonstrated the practicality of its Perseus signal compression technology in the Airbus Group pavilion at the Paris Air Show 2015. V-Nova wanted to show how Perseus was not limited to broadcasting, but …

Dolby Vision Laser Projection Shines Bright in the Netherlands

by Tom Allen

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) and JT Bioscopen today announced that JT Hilversum will be JT Bioscopen’s second Dolby Cinema™ location in the Netherlands. Dolby Cinema, featuring Dolby Vision™ and Dolby Atmos®, is a premium …

Tags:Cinema| Dolby Vision| Netherlands

Huawei Confuses With ’10-Inch’ Screen – Not Display

by Tom Allen

The name of Huawei’s new tablet, the T1 10″, is slightly misleading, as it isn’t actually a 10″ (or even 10.1″) model at all – the display is 9.6″. According to Techradar, which asked …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Fairphone Brings Desktop Modularity to Your Pocket

by Tom Allen

Dutch company Fairphone is a phone maker with a difference. The company’s self-named smartphone uses ethically-sourced materials and is designed to have a long lifespan: it is modular, but in a different vein to …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Netherlands| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26