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HP Focuses on Business for Mobility

by Tom Allen

HP has unveiled eight new mobile devices for enterprise and education use, running Windows or Android. The company has not shared full specifications for some of these units yet, however. We saw several of …

Tags:HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 04

UK Minister Calls for Single Economy

by Tom Allen

Vince Cable, the UK’s secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, has called for the creation of a single digital economy in Europe. In a speech in Lisbon, Cable said that such a market …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Consumers Will Get Hands (and Eyes) on Oculus This Year

by Tom Allen

Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe is said to have told attendees of CES 2015 that the Oculus Rift headset will be launched by the autumn of this year. Cyberland claims that production has already …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Wearables

Utrecht city council building

Signage Enhances New Council Building

by Tom Allen

A total of €200 million was recently invested into a new city administration building in Utrecht, The Netherlands – part of which went towards digital signage. Brightsign, Hulskamp Audio Visual and VHS worked together to …

Tags:Brightsign| Digital Signage| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Epson Expands Line of PowerLite Pro G-Series Projectors for Large Venues

by Tom Allen

Epson US has released eight new Powerlite Pro-G projectors for large venues. Enhancing the feature-set of the Pro-G series, all of the new models have HDBaseT connectivity, as well as support for Extron XTP …

Tags:Epson| Large Display Monitor| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Vol 22 - Issue 04

IDC chart Top 5 EMEA PC Vendors Shipments

Western European PC Shipments Save EMEA Region

by Tom Allen

25.5 million PCs were shipped in the EMEA region in Q4’14, according to IDC: a 2% YoY increase. The market remained positive for the third consecutive quarter, thanks to strong consumer demand. Over the …

Tags:Acer| Asus| Convertible PCs| Dell| HP Inc| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 04

IDC Expects Easing in APAC PC Contraction

by Tom Allen

The APAC PC market (excluding Japan) was down 6.3% YoY in 2014, to 101 million units. While still a fall, the decline was still an improvement on the 10.3% contraction experienced in 2013. The …

Tags:APAC| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Garmin GNX 130 LCD display

New Large-Format Monochrome Ultra-Glow LCD Marine Instrument Displays from Garmin

by Tom Allen

Garmin’s new marine monitors are said to show the brightest, most visible digits on the market. Both the 7″ GNX 120 and 10″ GNX 130 are ultra-glow anti-fog (optically-bonded) displays, using an inverted LCD display …

Tags:Garmin| Industrial Monitors| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Hannspree Micro PC HDMI stick

Hannspree Licenses Windows for Micro PC Stick

by Tom Allen

Just one day after Inlighten announced its Argo Windows-based ‘PC’ HDMI stick, Hannspree has followed with a similar product called the Micro PC. Hannspree’s device runs a fully-licensed version of Windows 8.1 on a …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Rumours Fly Before MWC

by Tom Allen

MWC is widely expected to serve as the launch platform for a number of tier one manufacturers’ flagship products this year, given their absence from the CES tradeshow.  Rumours about Sony‘s Xperia Z4 have …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Samsung| Smartphones| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Amazon Streams UltraHD in Germany

by Tom Allen

Amazon Instant Video can now be used to stream UltraHD content in Germany, although currently there is only English language content. The app is currently supported by Ultra HD TV sets from Samsung, LG and …

Tags:4k| Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Video| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 04

LG 14Z950 notebook PC

LG Curves AIO and Claims World’s Lightest 14″ Notebook

by Tom Allen

LG has introduced several new products for the Korean market, which will also be launched in South America in Q2. The 29″ 29V950 represents a move into the curved 21:9 space for LG’s AIO PCs. The …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 04