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Asus Aims to Triple Smartphone Shipments

by Tom Allen

Jonney Shih, chairman of Asus USA, has said that the company intends to triple its smartphone shipments this year. That would put the company’s shipments at 25 million units. Six new markets will be …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11| Worldwide

PSCo Brings New Tech to Assessment Centre

by Tom Allen

Between 16th and 27th March, PSCo is inviting its partners to visit the PSCo Assessment Centre in Reading, where it is showing its newest display technology. As well as a new DigitalMedia control system, …

Tags:Back Panel| High Brightness Displays| Large Display Monitor| large displays| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| UK (United Kingdom)| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Ziggo and Cable Rule in The Netherlands

by Tom Allen

There were 20,000 new subscribers to pay-TV services in the Netherlands in Q4’14, according to Telecompaper. Most of these came from IPTV delivered by DSL or fibre. There was a 0.6% increase in overall …

Tags:Cable| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Pay TV| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 11

OLED TVs Rise 1,600%

by Tom Allen

DisplaySearch reports that OLED TV revenue was up 500% YoY in 2014. In a media briefing in Korea, the firm said that the size of the market reached about KRW300 billion ($267.4 million). 77,000 …

Tags:IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 22 - Issue 11| Worldwide

LG Display Plans OLED Alliance

by Tom Allen

The Korea Times claims that LG Display intends to establish an OLED TV alliance, in an effort to boost its OLED panel business. CEO Han Sang-beom is quoted as saying, “We are in talks …

Tags:China| Japan| Korea| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Optoma Re-Uses Chassis in Business and Education

by Tom Allen

Four new DLP-based projectors have been introduced by Optoma, for the business (W350, X350) and education (W351, X351) markets. They are differentiated by their resolution, brightness and throw ratios, but other features and specifications …

Tags:Business Projectors| DLP Projectors| Education| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Tobii Moves Objects, Blocks Sounds and Enables Eye Contact

by Tom Allen

Tobii has written a new post (http://tinyurl.com/puh8q2a) about four different ways in which eye-tracking can be used by developers. All of these have been used by Tobii at some point. Multi-dimensional movement is a …

Tags:Game Controllers| Game Playing| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tobii| Vol 22 - Issue 11

LG Takes 10 Awards at MWC

by Tom Allen

GSM Arena named LG’s G3 as the Best Smartphone of the Year at MWC 2015. Additionally, the company scooped nine separate awards for the G Watch Urbane and Urbane LTE; Android Authority, Android Central, …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Weak 2014 Boosts Chinese New Year TV Comparison

by Tom Allen

TV sales ‘recovered’ during the Chinese New Year period, according to DisplaySearch’s Bing Zhang in a new blog post (http://tinyurl.com/pj8xam2). Unlike 2014, the three-week period in 2015 showed no signs of weakness. DisplaySearch’s initial …

Tags:China| IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 11

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 13

by Tom Allen

It is a common maxim that ‘porn drives technology’, and Pornhub and Durex are seeking to prove the fact, once again. Durex has moved into the digital space with a new mystery gadget that …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearables

NEC Shares Solution Showcase Dates

by Tom Allen

The seventh annual NEC Display Solutions showcase will take place on the 20th and 21st May this year, at the Vinopolis in London. There will be zones dedicated to applications including retail, DOOH, education, …

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Signage| Education| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Retail| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Intel Bundles Iris Graphics for Gamers

by Tom Allen

Intel will introduce its first Core i7 CPU (Broadwell architecture) with an LGA socket and in-built Iris Pro graphics this year. Pete Baker, VP of software and services, said that the new hardware would …

Tags:Chips| Gamer| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11