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Indiana State University Helping to Train Unmanned Systems Operators

Indiana State University (ISU) recently acquired two new unmanned aerial (UAS) training systems from Corsair Engineering (Orlando, FL) for training future ...

Fujitsu Announces STYLISTIC V535 Tablet integrated with PalmSecure F-Pro for Secure Mobile Authentication

Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leader in innovative technology and front-end solutions announces the release of the FUJITSU Biometric Authentication ...

Displays, Drones and VR in Canada

Multiple methods are being developed to work with virtual reality, most involving an additional wearable, or some form of external camera. ...

UBI Says that OLED is the Best Automotive Display

UBI Research of Korea is optimistic that OLED will increasingly penetrate the automotive market. In a post on OLEDnet, the company ...

Everything Used to be Better

The increasing pressure on the purchasing department significantly reduces the quality of displays. This is shown by an analysis by Wammes ...

Nanomarkets: LCoS May Overtake LCD as Common Mobile Display

Nanomarkets has published a new report on the components and subsystems markets for smartglasses (http://tinyurl.com/p9gy3kg). The firm estimates that there is ...

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USA Today Tests 4k/UHD TV

by Raverstead

The USA Today has tested a 4k/UHD TV and reported the results in its article “Cutting the Cord: Smart TVs can be the ticket to 4K”. The article summarizes the overall positive results of …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 48

BOE Looks to Local Vendors

by Raverstead

BOE is looking to Chinese vendors for growth, say Asian reports, following Samsung’s disappointing smartphone sales. Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE and Coolpad are among the vendors named. BOE is also expanding its LTPS TFT-LCD capacity …

Tags:BOE| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Kairos Makes Mechanical Watches Smart

by Raverstead

Kairos is trying to keep everyone happy by transforming old mechanical watches into ‘smartwatches’ (of sorts). The ‘Tband’ (currently being funded on Indiegogo) is a new strap with a rigid section containing the electronics …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Tag Heuer Smartwatch Rumoured for CES Unveiling

by Raverstead

An Intel-powered smartwatch from Tag Heuer may be unveiled at CES 2015. Business Insider claims that the watch will offer fitness features and be similar in appearance to an analogue device.

Tags:Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Blackberry Classic to Arrive in Mid-December

by Raverstead

Blackberry CEO John Chen let the release date of the Blackberry Classic (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41) slip during a talk in China last month. Speaking at the MIT Enterprise Forum in Hong …

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Lengthening Life Puts Brakes on Tablet Growth

by Raverstead

The worldwide tablet market will slow massively in 2014, falling to just 7.2% YoY growth – from 52.5% in 2013. IDC believes that the core reason for the slowdown is that 2014 will represent …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Samsung to Cut Smartphone Portfolio

by Raverstead

Robert Yi, head of investor relations at Samsung, has said that the company will cut the number of smartphone models it offers by 25% – 30% next year. Speaking at the company’s Investor Forum …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor

Apple Hides UltraHD Feature

by Raverstead

The developers of a Mac video upload app, Waltr, have found that the A8 processors in Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus can playback UltraHD video. Apple has not even mentioned this feature; …

Tags:4k| Apple| iPhone| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 47

LCFC Targets 15 Million Shipments

by Raverstead

LCFC Electronics of China is a Lenovo/Compal joint venture. Asian sources have said that the company expects to ship 15 million notebooks this year. Five million were shipped in Q3 and another 5 million …

Tags:Compal| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| ODMs & OEMs| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Tech Data Takes Whole MSI Portfolio

by Raverstead

Tech Data’s partnership with MSI has been expanded to cover tablets, notebooks and AIO PCs in Germany.

Tags:Distributors| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TechData| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Advances in Barrier Films and Encapsulation

by Raverstead

The 2014 Printed Electronics Conference featured an entire session on the important topic of Barrier Films and Encapsulation. Effective barrier films and encapsulation are a long-standing challenge for the production of long-lived devices including …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Barrier Layers (Films)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Printed Electronics Conference 2014 (Santa Clara)| Roll to Roll (R2R)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Tianma Takes Aim at Automotive

by Raverstead

Tianma’s stand was divided between new technologies, automotive displays and point-of-sale/medical/industrial units. We began with the automotive models. Several displays are available now. Two of these are passive monochrome LCD screens; they are called …

Tags:AMOLED| Automotive| Bistable| Electronica 2014| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tianma| Vol 21 - Issue 45