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Avnet Buys Premier Farnell

Premier Farnell’s shareholders have voted to approve the acquisition of the company by Avnet for £691 million ($850 million). It is ...

HD+ Records 11.3 Percent Growth in Subscribers in 2015

SES S.A. announced today that its German HD platform HD+ recorded an 11.3 percent increase in subscribers in 2015. HD+ had ...

Flickr to Support Gear VR

Flickr has said that it will support the Samsung Gear VR by producing an app for the Gear VR that makes ...

The Perception of Motorcycle HUDs May be About to Change

New motorcycle Head-up Display (HUD) technology has just been introduced at CES that may indeed begin to change the perception of ...

Nvidia Continues AIB Domination, Says Jon Peddie

Graphics add-in boards (aka graphics cards), suffered a seasonally-expected fall in Q4’14, says Jon Peddie Research. Shipments were down 0.68% QoQ ...

TCL Result 12/03/2015

TCL Corporation has released its full year results, posting a net profit of $518 million, 60% higher than the previous year, ...

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Qualcomm Hopes to Grow Content Availability With Dongle

by Super User

Qualcomm is developing an HDMI dongle to wirelessly transfer video from a mobile device to a TV. Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, has seen a prototype of the unit. He …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Samsung’s Wireless Tech is WiGig

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Recently (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41), we noted that Samsung’s ‘development’ of a 60GHz wireless technology was surprising, given that the company has been involved with the WiGig standard for several years. Samsung’s …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21| WiGIG

Lenovo Considers Supply Chain Shift

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Lenovo has begun to place orders for new tablet products with Chinese vendors, including BOE and O-Film, say supply chain sources in Asia. However, the sources also said that Lenovo is considering increasing orders …

Tags:China| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

E Fun Promises First Sub-$200 Windows Hybrid

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E Fun’s new convertible, the Nextbook 10.1, is said to be the first 10.1″ Windows hybrid device being sold for under $200. The tablet, which features a detachable keyboard, will be available in the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Highlights from the SMPTE Fall Conference and HPA Symposium

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Display Daily was at the recent SMPTE Fall Conference and the pre-show Symposium put on by HPA (Hollywood Post Alliance). The event was held in the Loews Hollywood Hotel and in the famous El …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Post Production| SMPTE 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Spire and Asus Extend Partnership

by Super User

Spire’s partnership with Asus has expanded to include the company’s gaming and networking products, in the UK.

Tags:Asus| Distributors| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

LG to End PDP Production This Month

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We heard earlier this year that LG Electronics was committed to ending plasma TV production this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 Nos 35 & 39). Now, the company has provided a time-frame. In a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| PDP| Production Capacity| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Ludwig Pohl Inducted into German Research Hall of Fame

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Merck KGaA is a leading developer and supplier of LCD materials, without whom, the development of the LCD industry would have been very different. One of the drivers behind the LC development was Ludwig …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

STMicroelectronics Result 30/10/2014

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STMicroelectronics swung to a net profit in the third quarter of the year of $72 million from a net loss a year earlier of $142 million. Turnover for Q3 of this year was $1.8 …

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Shelf Share: A Revealing Research Tool

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Deirdre Kennedy, an analyst for Gap Intelligence, has written extensively about shelf share in the retail space. Her explanation of the term is comprehensive and her examples are particularly relevant to the display trade. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Fitbit Slots in to Smartwatches

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Fitbit has revealed a fitness tracker that also acts as a smartwatch. Joining two other wearables (the Charge and Charge HR, with small AMOLED screens), the Fitbit Surge features an LCD display. It includes …

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Vivo Has Ambitious Smartphone Plan

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A posting on the ‘Chinese Twitter’, Weibo, has revealed that smartphone maker Vivo is planning to create a 3.8mm-thick smartphone. Yes, that’s 1.3mm thinner than the current record-holder, the ELife S5.1 from Gionee (Display …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21