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Outfront Celebrates Leonard Nimoy

by Tom Allen

Outfront Media (formerly CBS Outdoor) paid tribute to the actor Leonard Nimoy recently, converting 15 of its own digital billboards around Atlanta. The signs showed a monochrome image of Nimoy as Spock, his famous …

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| LED| Outfront Media| Outfront Media (CBS Outdoor)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Panasonic Chosen for Spanish Airport Rollout

by Tom Allen

Madrid-based Cemusa has won a contract to operate advertising in all airports in Spain. Following a proposal, it has been agreed that 171 of Panasonic’s TF-70LF50 70″ LCD displays will be installed in various …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Spain| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Non-PC Production Climbs at Inventec

by Tom Allen

Inventec aims to ship between 65 million and 70 million devices this year, the company said at its investors’ conference. The proportion of products that are not notebooks or desktop PCs will rise from …

Tags:China| India| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 13

ABI Predicts 1.1 Billion Pay-TV Subs by 2020

by Tom Allen

The worldwide pay-TV market grew 4% in 2014, to reach 923.5 million subscribers, says ABI research. However, weak exchange rates kept revenue growth lower, ending the year at $257 billion. ABI expects the market …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Worldwide

BenQ’s Stylish EW2440L Monitor Goes Gold

by Tom Allen

BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions, today introduced its newly minted gold version of the popular EW2440L monitor. Loaded with features that take mobile content to the screen, the …

Tags:BenQ| Desktop Monitors

Digital Anarchy Speeds Digital Makeup Application

by Tom Allen

Digital Anarchy is an after-effects company, with software that digitally ‘touches up’ peoples’ faces in photographs. The company also has a version for video, Beauty Box Video, with real-time skin retouching and digital makeup …

Tags:Graphics Software| Large Display Monitor| Post Production| Software| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Connected Health and Fitness Will Rise 500% to 2019

by Tom Allen

According to Juniper Research, worldwide revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2 billion by 2019 – a 525% rise from this year’s estimated $320 million. Juniper also found that smart wireless …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearable Market| Worldwide

Nanoco Warns Against Cadmium QDs

by Tom Allen

Michael Edelman, CEO of cadmium-free quantum dots producer Nanoco, has criticised the European Commission’s decision to grant a Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) exemption to cadmium-containing QDs (EC Affirms Environmental Benefit of Cadmium-Based Quantum …

Tags:Environment| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Nanoco| Quantum Dots| ROHS| Vol 22 - Issue 13

OLED-Info Publishes Transparent OLED Report

by Tom Allen

OLED-Info has published a new research report on the transparent OLED market. It details the advantages and properties of transparent OLED displays and lighting, as well as the challenges facing such products and market …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Transparent Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 13

JCDecaux Begins Green Bus Shelter Rollout in Paris

by Tom Allen

JCDecaux subsidiary Sopact has installed the first of 2,000 new bus shelters in Paris (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3); work is expected to continue until the summer. Around 100 of the shelters will …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| France| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Solar Panels| Touch Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Exceet Claims Inexpensive Gesture Recognition

by Tom Allen

Exceet Electronics GmbH claims to have developed a way to implement gesture control, without using cameras. The system is based on electronic field lines, and their modification through gestures. It can be installed in …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Advantech Claims Space Saving With Open-Frame

by Tom Allen

Advantech has introduced the IDS-3121W, a widescreen open frame monitor with five-wire resistive touch. The monitor can be installed in a cabinet with a custom face plate. A 20% space saving is claimed over …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13