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Kiss Connectivity’ Speeds File Sharing

A US startup called Keyssa has developed its own solution to transfer data wirelessly. The solution is based around a new ...

Smartphone Market to Depend on Component Supply

Sources in Asia are pointing to shortages of key components of displays as well as memory and optical sensors as being ...

HTC Bases New Tablet on Nexus 9

Upleaks claims that HTC is working on a new tablet based on its Nexus 9 (Google’s New Nexus Devices Feature Android ...

Vodafone Launches 4k in Germany

ADSL customers of Vodafone Deutschland are now being offered a new UltraHD STB that can be used to access the company’s ...

Philips Boosts LED Projection With ColorSpark (DS7)

Peter Vankan is R&D Director for Philips Lighting which also has responsibility for projection light sources as well as general lighting. ...

Mediatek Expects to Hit Forecast High End

Mediatek has stuck to its current forecast of a 10% YoY revenue increase this year. Speaking at a media briefing, COO ...

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Vestel Will Feed UltraHD TVs Through Own STB

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IFA, as a consumer electronics show, has always been an odd place for Vestel to exhibit, as the only products on display are OEM items, which may not even come to market. The company …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vestel| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

EU Approves BSkyB Deal

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The European Union’s antitrust authority has approved BSkyB’s acquisition of Sky Italia and 57% of Sky Deutschland, saying that the transaction would not hinder competition in the European pay-TV arena. The new entity would …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Sky| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

DisplayPort 1.3 Adds 5k(!) Support

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DisplayPort v1.3 has just been released by the Video Electronic Standards Association (VESA), supporting up to 32.4Gbps. The speed of v1.3 (each of the four lanes runs at 8.1Gbps) represents a 50% increase from …

Tags:DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| VESA| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Amscreen…Relocates Aral Network…

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Amscreen’s Aral network in Germany, which uses more than 1,000 displays, has been switched off. The small (10 displays) Esso network in the Rhine-Main area is also due to be shut down. A small …

Tags:Amscreen| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Fingerprint Sensor Popularity on the Rise

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Sources in the supply chain claim that orders for fingerprint recognition solutions for smartphones and smartwatches are rising. As well as Apple and Samsung, Chinese makers are beginning to integrate the technology into their …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Tesco Cancels Hudl Smartphone

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Tesco’s Hudl tablet was wildly popular last year, but the company has cancelled plans for a 4G smartphone under the same brand. Since the phone, apparently capable of challenging the Galaxy S5, was first …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Tesco| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

TV Everywhere Not Delayed by Authentication

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A study by US-based The Diffusion Group (TDG) has shown that authentication is not limiting the takeup of TV Everywhere services. Only 7% of users view the authentication process negatively and fewer than 1% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Security| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Q2 Marks End to Workstations’ Sideways Movement

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Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has referred to the workstation market’s Q2’14 as a ‘breakout quarter’ (while admitting that characterising a mature market as ‘breakout’ “verges upon [an] oxymoron”). Q2 saw record levels of unit …

Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

Nvidia’s GPUs DOWNSCALE for Sharper Image

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The Maxwell architecture introduced by Nvidia as the eventual successor to Kepler (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 8) now has two new GPUs: the GTX 970 and 980. Maxwell is more efficient than Kepler, …

Tags:Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Barco Looks to Star Quality to Sell Escape Systems

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Barco is working with musical artists Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga to promote its panoramic, three-screen cinema concept, Barco Escape (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37). Their performance at the Grand Palace in Brussels, …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

AMD Has “Teradici Without Chips”

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AMD was showing how its professional graphics boards can support UltraHD and the firm was demonstrating the FirePro W9100 GPU card running dual Dell 3840 x 2160 displays, although up to three can be …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

ViXS Bullish on UltraHD and HEVC

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Vixs was in a positive mood at IBC, as it had been at CES, as it has currently the “only fully working UltraHD HEVC chip in production”. The XCode 6400 chip is in five …

Tags:Events| IBC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21