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SES TV Channels Grow by 11.3% in 2015, Outperforming the Industry

SES S.A. announced the transmission of a record number of TV channels on board its satellite fleet as of 31 December ...

New DOOH Coming to Zermatt

DOOH screens are common in the mountainous parts of Switzerland and Austria, and are used for communication, wayfinding and advertising. APG ...

ZTE and Turksat Jointly Release HD Hybrid STB

ZTE Corp and Turksat, the biggest cable service operator in Turkey, announced that they have jointly released a new HD Hybrid ...

Global UltraHD/4k Market to Reach $30.4 Billion by 2020

New data from Transparency Market Research estimates that the worldwide UltraHD 4k panel market will reach $30.4 billion by 2020, representing ...

Airport Gatwick uses Beacons and Augmented Reality

London’s Gatwick Airport has installed 2,000 beacons to provide an indoor navigation system as part of a major investment update. The ...

Epeat Hosting Sustainable Mobile Phone Webinar

Sustainable electronics firm Epeat will be running a webinar on Tuesday 7th November at 11am PST. According to the press release, ...

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Rumor: Microsoft Adds VR cardboard viewer

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to news on a Russian website, Microsoft will give away a virtual reality viewer named Microsoft VR Kit at a Moscow hackathon in October of this year. The VR Kit is similar to …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

Wall Street Looks at Virtual Reality as the Next Big Thing?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Besides the number of big names jumping into the augmented and virtual reality markets, market success has been very limited. Virtual reality has been more of a future thing than a business success today. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Housley Takes on CEO Role at InFocus

by Tom Allen

InFocus has appointed Mark Housley, a member of the board since 2009, as the company’s new CEO. Housley will continue to hold his board seat while serving concurrently as CEO. He has previously served …

Tags:InFocus| Large Display Monitor| People| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Crowdfunding Aims at ‘No Compromise’ PC Phone

by Tom Allen

A Swedish entrepreneur, Jonathon Gustafsson, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a ‘no compromises’ smartphone to the market. The ‘Symetium’ looks like a traditional smartphone. However, it’s real intent is “[to] remove the …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 39

KIDS Looking for Display Experts

by Bob Raikes

The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS) is compiling a “Display Expert Database” as part of its Expert Mapping Project (EMP). To register contact Ms Jung-ran Shin at [email protected] (the url the group sent didn’t …

Tags:Back Panel| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 39

DuPont Displays’ Target: A $1000 OLED-TV by 2020

by Ken Werner

It is widely agreed that if OLED is to be truly cost-competitive with LCD for television applications, the OLED materials must be printed instead of being deposited by vacuum thermal evaporation as they are …

Tags:DuPont| OLED Materials| Solution Processing| Vol 22 - Issue 39

VW Scandal Revived in Samsung Sets

by Tom Allen

In a timely call-back to the Volkswagen emissions scandal, independent lab testers have accused Samsung of implementing a similar system on its TVs in Europe. The unpublished tests were performed by an EU-funded group …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 39

FNAC Makes Offer for Darty

by Bob Raikes

Fnac, the French electronics and music retailer, has made a bid for UK-listed rival Darty. The French company made a bid of £1.01 per share – valuing the company at £533 million ($807.7 million). …

Tags:Europe| Fnac| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Refreshed Watch Urbane Ends Smartphone Need

by Tom Allen

At the same time as it introduced the V10 smartphone (LG Goes Dual-Screen, Dual-Camera for Content Creation), LG showed a preview of the second generation of its Watch Urbane (Wearables and Smartphones Are The …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 39| Wearables

MultiQ Acquires Mermaid

by Tom Allen

MultiQ has acquired Mermaid, the Danish digital signage company. The new company, still called MultiQ, will apparently be the largest digital signage supplier in northern Europe. Its headquarters will be in Lund, Sweden. Financial …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| MultiQ| Vol 22 - Issue 39

LG Unveils V10, A Smartphone Designed With Creativity in Mind

by Isaac Oburu

LG Electronics (LG) today took the wraps off its newest smartphone fuaturing multimedia capabilities never before seen in a mobile device. The first of its V Series phones, the LG V10 was designed to …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Smartphones