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Vehicular Technology at CES

Automotive technology is becoming a steadily larger and more important component of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Ford is leading ...

LED Backlights Arrive on Full Multisync Medical Range

With the introduction of the Multisync MD212G3, NEC Display Solutions’ entire series of Multisync medical monitors is now LED-backlit. The 21.3″ ...

Which Way for displays, OLED or MicroLED?

We caught up with quite a lot of the ‘hard news’ this week, although there seemed to be plenty going on! ...

Falling July Panel Shipments Indicate Slowing Demand

37.7 million m² of large (9.1″+) TFT panel were shipped in Q2, NPD DisplaySearch said recently (Display Monitor Vol 21 No ...

Will YouTube leave Russia?

Russia is introducing legislation covering online video services. A 20% foreign ownership cap is being placed on OTT services and organisers ...

Everyone is Talking About the Perfect Display (in the iPhone, that is)

Two weeks ago, I raised the question of whether Apple showed enough with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus to ...

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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

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Samsung Germany Names AV Marketing Head

by Helen Vince

Samsung Electronics in Germany has appointed Mike Henkelmann as the new head of marketing for AV. Henkelmann has worked for Samsung for more than 10 years and in his new position will be responsible …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 13

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

Jabil Result 20/03/2015

by Helen Vince

Jabil Circuit Inc. has reported its preliminary second quarter results, posting a net profit of $52 million on turnover of $4.3 billion, which compares with a net loss of $38.7 million on turnover of …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13

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SolidEnergy Developing a High Energy Capacity Li-ion Battery

by Arthur Berman

SolidEnergy Systems Corp. (Waltham, MA), a start-up that spun out of MIT in 2012, is using innovative materials to develop an “anode-less” lithium-ion battery technology that allows for the storage of considerably more energy …

Tags:Batteries| Vol 22 - Issue 13

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 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Windows

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 …

Tags:4k| France| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 13

HP on Track to Split Businesses in November

by Helen Vince

HP says it is on track to split the company into two separate entities in November. The company announced last November its intention to form two new businesses, HP Enterprise which will focus on …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 22 - Issue 13

TV-Film Chooses Ikegami HDK-970A Cameras for OB Truck Ü6

by Vanessa Browning

TV-Film, a Vienna-based company specialising in providing mobile television production services, outside broadcast vehicles and related equipment, has purchased Ikegami HDK-970A and HDK-97A cameras for its Ü6 OB truck. The sale was negotiated by …

Tags:Cameras| Outside Broadcast