SGP Chooses Extenso
by Raverstead
SGP Technologies has chosen Extenso Telecom to distribute its Blackphone Android smartphone in France.
Tags:France| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 49
5G Will Offer Speed and Capacity
by Raverstead
Rahim Tafazoli, the head of the UK’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, has said that capacity, not speed, will define 5G networks. The technology will be user-centric, offering low latency …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor
Huawei Hits Out at Windows Phone – Again
by Raverstead
Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34), Huawei said that it had not made any profit on its Windows Phone venture. Now Joe Kelly, head of international media affairs, has gone a …
Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Windows
Overlapping Functionality Lowers Wearable Shipments
by Raverstead
Shipments of wearable electronic devices for fitness will dip slightly next year, as the functionality of smartwatches, smart wristbands and other wearable fitness monitors overlaps. Gartner expects shipments to reach 68.1 million units, down …
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Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 49
by Raverstead
The Iconia Talk S is Acer’s first 4G tablet. With support for voice calling and two SIM slots, it is intended to fully replace a smartphone. A quad-core Snapdragon processor runs Android on the …
Tags:Acer| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 49
Heraeus’ Clevios F DH Designed for Temperature-Sensitivity
by Raverstead
Heraeus has partnered with DaeHa Mantech of Korea to develop dry heat and UV antistatic and conductive materials. The new materials will be marketed under the name of Clevios F DH (based on PEDOT:PSS). …
Tags:Film materials| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47
Sales Rise at John Lewis
by Raverstead
Sales in the week ending 6th December were up 10.8% YoY at John Lewis in the UK, to £160 million ($250.8 million). Week-on-week sales were down 10.6%, following the store’s biggest-ever trading week.
Tags:John Lewis Partnership| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail Data| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 49
Intel Looking to Design the Future
by Raverstead
Brian David Johnson of Intel was the next speaker (Intel is a Diamond Sponsor for the Fujitsu Forum event). Johnson is a futurist and principal engineer and his topic is “How to design the …
Tags:Fujitsu Forum 2014| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 46
3D Print Your Own Computer
by Raverstead
3D printing has been getting more and more advanced, but we didn’t think we’d reach this level quite yet. The world’s first 3D-printed laptop, the Pi-Top has been successfully funded on crowdsourcing sight IndieGoGo. …
Tags:3D Printers| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 45
And Finally… Real driving game
by Raverstead
And finally… Baen’s self-named project on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/maez99k) sounds a little bit like the Hindenburg – a lot of potential, but there are likely to be flames before it’s over… Baen is a hardware …
Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| | Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor
Barco Works With Authorities on Videowall Investigation
by Raverstead
There is an enquiry ongoing in China regarding the import of large videowalls between 1997 and 2009 – before such products were assembled in the country. Barco has announced that it is co-operating with …
Tags:| China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Video Walls| Vol 21 - Issue 48
Canon Targets 2015 for Medical Colour Display
by Raverstead
Canon is displaying a prototype medical monitor at RSNA 2014 (30th November – 4th December). The unit is a high resolution colour display for mammography images. The 30″, 10MP (4096 x 2560) display uses …
Tags:4K DCI| Canon| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| RSNA 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 47
