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Varlink Takes Rugged Panasonic Products

Varlink is now distributing Panasonic’s Toughbook, Toughpad and EPoS products in the UK.

SlimPort Enables Windows Continuum on Acer Liquid Jade Primo Smartphone and Display Dock

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that Liquid Jade Primo, Acer’s Windows 10-powered smartphone, features the SlimPort®ANX7816 and ANX7418 USB-C transmitters and ...

Mexico Gives Away Almost 3 Million Digital TVs

Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute has distributed around 2.8 million digital TVs to poor families in the country, as the nation prepares ...

Wavien Proposes Liquid Suspension of Laser Phosphor for High Power Applications

For high lumen projectors using laser phosphor, the phosphor material will typically run too hot and burn if exposed to too ...

CES Awards

The CTA announced the Best of Innovation Honorees for CES 2017. Chengdu XGimi Technology Co., Ltd won for the Xgimi Z4 ...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyptic TV – Will TV live past China?

Will TV live past China? by Dr Jon Peddie Philo T. Farnsworth invented Electronic TV in the US and demonstrated it ...

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Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in February 2015, says SIA

by Tom Allen

Both the Semiconductor Industry Association and Gartner have released their most recent semiconductor sales estimates – for February 2015 from the SIA, and the year 2014 from Gartner. Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $27.8 billion …

Tags:Gartner| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Semiconductors| Vol 22 - Issue 15

HTC’s March Sales Up 117% MoM

by Helen Vince

HTC says that thanks to strong demand for the new HTC One M9 smartphone, sales in March climbed 117% sequentially and 23.4% year on year to NT$20 billion ($642.8 million). In Q1 HTC posted …

Tags:Financial Data| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15

China’s MIIT Reveals Huawei Flagship

by Tom Allen

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has shared the specifications of Huawei’s upcoming Ascend P8 smartphone. The handset will have a 5.2″ display (1920 x 1080) and run on an octa-core Kirin 930 …

Tags:China| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Inventec Eyes APAC Expansion

by Tom Allen

Inventec chairman Richard Lee has said that the company is considering establishing factories in Japan and Singapore this year. The depreciation of the yen against the dollar has led to requests for local assembly …

Tags:APAC| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Kenya – Finally – Achieves ASO

by Tom Allen

Kenya has had its share of debates on the ASO issue, with consumer associations arguing against the move, and even postponements from a High Court (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50 & Vol 20 …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 22 - Issue 15

New Options for JPEG 2000 Compression for Video-Over-IP Emerge

by Chris Chinnock

JPEG 2000 compression is used in the Digital Cinema world to encode movies for distribution to the theater. It is also used in broadcast for contribution signals. It is an image based compression scheme …

Tags:Barco| JPEG2000| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Touch Popular in Detachable Notebooks

by Tom Allen

Q4 is traditionally a strong period for notebook sales, and shipments of notebook touch panels in Q4’14 rose 9.4% YoY, to 5.6 million units. In area terms, shipments rose 7% QoQ and 15.6% YoY. …

Tags:Convertible PCs| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Controllers| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Epson Has a Projector For Every School

by Tom Allen

Epson’s new 3LCD projectors, part of the EB series, are small, portable models with a range of resolutions. Consisting of seven models (EB-S27, EB-X27, EB-W29, EB-98H, EB-945H, EB-955WH and EB-965H), each projector is able …

Tags:3LCD| Education| Epson| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Giant 3D Displays from TriLite

by Matthew Brennesholtz

TriLite Technologies (Vienna, Austria) is a 2011 start-up that proposes, among other things, large scale glasses-free 3D digital signage. And I mean large scale: one of their promotional pictures shows a 3D digital signage …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Digital Signage| Vol 22 - Issue 15