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Weak Demand Causes Panel Price Fall in March

by Tom Allen

IHS DisplaySearch has released its panel price data for March. Downward trends were seen in almost every market segment. Weak demand meant that monitor panel prices continued to fall. Vendors still have inventories, so …

Exterion Media Secures The Hague Advertising Contract

by Tom Allen

A contract to operate street furniture in the Hague area, in the Netherlands, has been won by Exterion Media. Exterion will operate the furniture for the next five years. The contract covers 2,500 advertising …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Outdoor Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 13

TCO Opens Display Draft for Comments

by Tom Allen

TCO Development has opened a draft criteria document for stakeholder comment (http://tinyurl.com/pb7gjrd), as part of its review of the TCO Certified criteria (TCO Reviews TCO Certified Criteria). The draft document deals with TCO Certified …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TCO Development| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Barco’s Uniti Becomes Edison Finalist

by Tom Allen

Barco’s Coronis Uniti medical display (Barco Unifies Radiology Workflows) has been named as a 2015 finalist for the 2015 Edison Awards. These awards recognise innovation, creativity and ingenuity.

Display Solutions Utilises PSD Touch Technology

by Tom Allen

UK-based Display Solutions has developed a new 42″ touch display. Supporting up to 10 touch points, the DT-S42FD uses Planar Scatter Detection technology, registering touches from gloved hands. (that sounds very much like the …

Will.i.am Works on Smartwatch With Gucci

by Tom Allen

Will.i.am launched a ‘smart cuff’ last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42), and has now worked with fashion brand Gucci to develop another. The smartband, like Will.i.am’s Puls, is a standalone product that …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearables

Swiss Watch Combines Traditional Mechanisms With Mobile Platform

by Tom Allen

Geneva-based Frederique Constant has unveiled a smartwatch with Swiss mechanisms and an analogue face. The Horological Smartwatch uses the MotionX platform, developed by Fullpower. MotionX is described as ‘tightly coupled firmware, smartphone applications and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Vector Uses Memory LCD for 30-Day Battery

by Tom Allen

Vector’s smartwatch, which got significant coverage recently for the claimed 30-day battery life (Vector Claims Month-Long Battery), has been unveiled at Baselworld. The watch achieves its long life using a monochrome memory LCD display …

Tags:Memory LCD| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Cortana Arrives in Europe

by Tom Allen

The latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build has brought the Cortana voice assistant to desktops in Europe. Cortana is able to search for apps, settings and files and conduct web searches. More functionality will …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Voice Input| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Windows

Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Hardware Specs

by Tom Allen

Microsoft has revealed the specifications of devices that Windows 10 will be able to run on at the Windows Hardware Engineering in China. Windows 10 phones will scale from 3″ to 7.99″, while desktop …

High-Res STB Planned by Orange

by Tom Allen

Orange CEO Stéphane Richard has said that the company will launch an UltraHD set-top box next year. At the presentation of Orange’s ‘Essential2020’ strategic plan, Richard said, “4k is not a market one can …

Impression Pi Boasts Control Through Computer Vision

by Tom Allen

uSens has launched a Kickstarter campaign for an interactive, mobile VR headset called Impression Pi (appropriately launched on Pi Day). The company says that development on hardware is nearly completed. The Kickstarter campaign is …