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PC Vendors Must Look to New Areas for Profit

The PC market saw one of its lowest-ever growth rates in Q1’16 (PC Decline at Worst Point in Nine Years), but ...

Asus Signs Excusive with Verizon

Verizon in the US has done a deal with Asus to exclusively offer a new smartphone that has a dual curved ...

Epson Expands Support of Augmented Reality Industry with Inaugural Sponsorship of Super Ventures AR Incubator

Epson, providers of the Moverio® augmented reality smart eyewear platform, today announced its inaugural corporate sponsorship of Super Ventures, the first ...

IC12 Microsoft Summarises AR & VR Developments

The final talk was by Dr Bernard Kress from the Microsoft Hololens Team. He gave a very, very ‘high bandwidth’ overview ...

BBC Gives Public Insight Into Future of Broadcast

The BBC has opened its innovation labs up to the public – sort of – in the form of a website ...

TI Commercialises 1280 x 720 TRP Chipset

Texas Instruments announced a Tilt & Roll Pixel (TRP) DLP pico chipset supporting 1280 x 720 resolution at MWC this year ...

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Imagination Hit by Apple Decision

by Bob Raikes

UK technology developer, Imagination Technologies, had a bad week as it had to announce that Apple had said that it would not use the Imagination ip in its products from 2019. Imagination has been …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

BBC Online Audience Figures Lower Due to Netflix

by Alan Spencer

Viewing numbers for BBC’s online services are suffering due to Netflix. Nine years after launch, the iPlayer is used weekly by 13% of all adults in the UK, the same as for Netflix. For …

Tags:BBC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 13

LDM Vol 24 Issue 13 Product Round-up

by Bob Raikes

AOC announced the U3277PWQU monitor last summer (AOC Chooses IPS and VA for UHD Monitors) and it is now becoming available in the US at $700 (although there is a special offer through B&H …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Touch| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 13

huawei

Huawei Result 05/04/2017

by Yvette Raikes

China-based Huawei published its annual report for 2016, showing profits of CNY37.1 billion ($5 billion), slightly up from CNY36.9 billion, on turnover which rose 32% to CNY521.6 billion ($75 billion) from CNY395.0 billion ($57 …

Tags:Financial Data| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Also Takes Over Media Markt Logistics

by Bob Raikes

Also is to take over the Media Markt main warehouse in Switzerland from the middle of this year and will cover the logistics to supply to Media Markt’s retail stores. The company will also …

Tags:Also| Large Display Monitor| MediaMarkt (Saturn)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Spanish Pay-TV Subscribers Now Over 6 million

by Alan Spencer

According to Spain’s competition watchdog, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), at the end of the third quarter of 2016, Spanish pay-TV subscribers reached 6,006,326, which is up almost 600,000 from …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Spain| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Apple

Apple to Make Micro LED Displays this Year?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In an article published by Taipei Times, they break the news that according to IDC analyst, Annabelle Hsu, Apple is preparing to manufacture micro LED displays by the end of 2017 and entering into …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Despicable Me 1 & 2 to be First Dolby UHD Blu-Ray Releases

by Alan Spencer

‘Despicable Me’ and ‘Despicable Me 2’ from Universal, will be the first two UHD Blu-ray releases confirmed to use the Dolby Vision HDR format. The two UHD Blu-ray HDR releases will be available on …

Tags:4k| Blu-ray| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Has Scala Won Taco Bell?

by Bob Raikes

The Daily Dooh reports a rumour from DSE last week that Scala has won a big deal for all 7,400 locations of Taco Bell in North America. The blog also said that Scala has …

Tags:Digital Signage| Digital Signage Software| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| Scala (now Stratacache)| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Nintendo Switch Gets Feedback

by Bob Raikes

The BBC got some young people into its studios and gave them the new Nintendo Switch to try. There’s a video of their reactions here. Mostly, they liked it.

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Nintendo Consoles| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Stratacache Acquires Lift Network

by Alan Spencer

Last December, Stratacache acquired a 3,500 screen shopper marketing network in Lift convenience stores, taking the contract from VeriFone and it has now confirmed the deal. Many companies have failed to make a go …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Oculus Founder Luckey Leaves the Company

by Alan Spencer

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, has left the company. Luckey was responsible for the company’s rise to prominence and its VR headset which went on sale in early 2016. No comment was available …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 24 - Issue 13