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Arrow Takes Partner Award

by Tom Allen

EMC Corporation has named Arrow Electronics as its North America Distributor Partner of the Year for 2014. This is the second year in a row that Arrow has received the recognition.

Competitors Need Apple Watch to Succeed – IHS

by Tom Allen

IHS expects the smartwatch market to grow from 3.6 million units in 2014 to 101 million in 2020. The overall success of the smartwatch market will be driven by the Apple Watch, said IHS …

SID Investors’ Conference Highlights Emerging Technologies

by Tom Allen

SID is partnering with IHS and Cowen and Company for its 11th Annual Investors’ Conference, The event will take place during Display Week (31st May – 5th June, San Jose). The conference will last …

Horizon Cannot Save Liberty From Losses

by Tom Allen

Liberty Global lost 169,000 video subscribers in Q1, due to the under-performance of the Ziggo service. However, Horizon performed well. Liberty’s ‘next-generation’ video platforms added a total of 274,000 subscribers, including a record 171,000 …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Vol 22 - Issue 20

TCL TVs in Double-Digit Fall

by Tom Allen

TCL has said that its smart TV sales volume in April was 50.6% higher than a year before, at 494,000 sets. Overall LCD TV sales, however, fell 12.6%, to under 1.4 million sets. Sales …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| TCL| Vol 22 - Issue 20| Worldwide

BOE Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony

by Tom Allen

BOE has begun construction on its G6 LTPS LCD/AMOLED fab in Chengdu, China. The total investment is estimated at $3.54 billion and production is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2017. Small-sized …

OOH Awards Winners Announced

by Tom Allen

The 2014 Out of Home Awards marked the first year that the event hosted a ‘Digital Media’ category. The winners have now been announced, with Hutchison 3G Austria taking the overall second place award …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Funai Aims at Low-Cost UltraHD

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nikkei says that Funai will launch a line of new low-cost UltraHD TVs in North America in the autumn. The TVs will be sold in Walmart under the Emerson brand, and will cost …

Tags:Funai| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Iiyama Brings Procap to Public Space

by Tom Allen

The T2435MSC-B2 is a new Iiyama Prolite monitor: a large multi-touch model with procap technology. The 24″ display supports up to 10 touch points. An edge-to-edge design is used, with the front glass flush …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Barco Used to Break Projection World Record

by Tom Allen

Creative Technology has used the Hoover Dam as the USA’s largest-ever projection screen. To mark the launch of Freightliner’s new truck, CT Group was contacted for the project by OSK Communications. The dam’s surface …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projection| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 20

Academy Upgrades With Digital Displays

by Tom Allen

A new 5m² projection room has been installed in the Hastings Academy in the UK. The 270° space uses three projectors, with content driven by a Onelan Net-Top-Box 6000 media player and Datapath multi-screen …

Rumour Points to OLED for Nexus 7

by Tom Allen

A story from Gizmo China claims that Huawei is building Google’s next Nexus phone. According to the rumour, the Nexus 7 (probably) will feature a 5.7″ OLED display from Samsung, with 2560 x 1440 …

Tags:Android| Google| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 20