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Thunderbot Comes to Europe with Gaming Notebook

Thunderobot, which has been selling gaming laptops online in Asia, has established a service centre in Barcelona and will start to ...

Aixtron Delists from NASDAQ

Struggling German firm Aixtron has had several setbacks recently. Last May it reached agreement with Germany-based GCI, owned by Chinese investment ...

BC11 Annis Sets Out Issues for OLED Production

Charles Annis of IHS in a classic, Displaysearch-like high bandwidth presentations (which I love!), said that the company is getting more ...

TI Makes Pico DLP Accessible

TI has made available the DLP LightCrafter Display 2000 evaluation module (EVM) that includes a 0.2″ DLP chipset and costs just ...

BC18 LG Wants to Display What Viewers Dream

Daniel Lee is the Director of Market Intelligence for LG Display (LGD). He started by looking at market trends. “You Dream, ...

Rapid Rise for OLED Materials

AMOLED material consumption will ‘surge’ in the second half of 2015, says IHS, as LG Display increases production of its WOLED ...

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Tender Complete for New Turkish Airport

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Gebr. Heinemann and Unifree Dutyfree have won the tender to provide ‘International Airside Retail’ concessions at Istanbul’s new airport, due to open in 2018. Digitisation is likely to play a major role in …

Tags:Aviation| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Leif Erik Lindner Samsung Germany

Samsung Germany Names Business Director

by Helen Vince

Samsung Electronics in Germany has named Leif-Erik Lindner as business director for its TV and audio business in the country. Lindner, who took up his new position at the beginning of the year, has …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Virgin Trials Sony Smartwear

by Tom Allen

Virgin Atlantic has taken on Sony’s Smartwear wearable range, and is trialling its use for real-time communications. The company will use Sony’s Smart Eyeglass SED-E1 (developer edition) and the Smartwatch 3, as part of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| sony| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Augmenting Virtual Reality

by Tom Allen

Interaction with the physical world while wearing a virtual reality device is difficult, to say the least – flailing arms will inevitably catch errant pens, cups of water and people while you are happily …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Head Up Displays HUDs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 10| Wearables

IDC: Commercial Market to Drive European Tablet Growth

by Tom Allen

Western Europe’s commercial tablet market is expected to exceed 11 million units in 2019, representing a CAGR of more than 130% from 2014, says IDC. Despite the maturing market, this data shows that tablets …

Tags:business| Europe| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

DVB Establishes Terrestrial Discussion Group

by Tom Allen

The Digital Video Broadcast group has set up a new DVB-T team, which will begin discussions about the short- and mid-term future of terrestrial broadcasting. The new group is currently preparing a paper on …

Tags:DVB| DVB-T & T2| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Humax Will be First STB Partner for Freeview Play

by Tom Allen

Humax has claimed the title of first set-top box manufacturer to announce Freeview Play products. The company’s boxes will support HD content, with built-in WiFi to access catch-up services. There will also be three …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 10

NXP and Freescale Announce $40 Billion Merger

by Helen Vince

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. (NYSE: FSL) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NXP will merge with Freescale in a transaction which values the …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Semiconductor Industry

Humax Launching Freeview Play STB

by Helen Vince

Humax claims it will be the first set-top box supplier to deliver the new Freeview Play connected TV later this year. Last month Panasonic announced that it will incorporate Freeview Play in its new …

Tags:STBs| Stream TV

The Digital Transition – Not Quite There, Yet

by Aldo Cugnini

Some of our readers may be surprised to hear that the US has not yet fully converted to digital broadcast. While full-power analog television station transmissions in the US ended in 2009, the statutory …

Tags:ATSC| DTV| FCC| Spectrum Allocation| Tuners| Vol 22 - Issue 10