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iBeacon Puts Displays at Retail Nexus

Mobile – In our last instalment on Apple Hybrid iBeacon and NFC (Near Field Communications) we said the company is once again demonstrating a ...

Tilt Brush: painting from a new perspective

From the earliest cave drawings, to classical paintings, to crayon scribbles, humans just have a thing for visual expression. These days ...

Vizio Expands South of the Border

Vizio has entered the Mexican market. The company’s E-series and M-Series TVs are now being sold through Sams’s Club and Walmart ...

And Finally – give up your first born…

We’ve all been there – you need to get online but you don’t want to use your data allowance. You cast ...

NEC IR Touch Display is Competitively Priced

NEC Display in the US has launched the E651-T which has an integrated IR touch screen that can respond to ten ...

Australia Relies on Holo-Gauze at Eurovision

Holo-Gauze has said that it supplied the technology to enable Australia’s live performance at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Three ...

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Russian DTH Growth Continues

by Alan Spencer

Orion Express, the Russian DTH service, saw its subscriber base grow by 5% in 2016 to 2.953 million. At the same time revenue growth went up by 2% to R3.5 billion (€54.2 million). ARPU …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Russia| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Dutch Prefer Internet TV to Public and Commercial TV

by Alan Spencer

According to research by Telecompaper, viewers in the Netherlands would prefer to switch to TV over the Internet if the main public and commercial channels were available via apps on their smart TVs. Some …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netherlands| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 06

O2 Gains TV Customers in Czech Republic

by Alan Spencer

In the Czech Republic, the incumbent O2 ended 2016 with 221,000 IPTV and OTT subscribers for its TV service, up 6.1% more than a year earlier. O2 has a complementary service called Multi that …

Tags:Czech Republic| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Telekom Austria Sees Modest Growth in Pay-TV

by Alan Spencer

Last year, Telekom Austria saw modest growth in its pay-TV businesses in Bulgaria and Croatia. In Bulgaria, it ended the year with 478,200 pay-TV RGUs representing a 3.3% increase on the total at the …

Tags:Austria| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Beta DMS to Distribute Stream TV’s Glasses-free 3D Technology

by Isaac Oburu

Stream TV Networks has announced that Beta Digital Media Solutions are their official distributors in the UK. Digital Media Solutions will be distributing Stream TV’s Ultra-D glasses-free 3D solution.

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

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NEC Solutions Zone European Resource Platform Launched

by Milos Pavlovic

NEC Display Solutions Europe has today launched the NEC Solutions Zone, a free web-based information and networking tool for professional end-users, distributors, NEC’s eco-partners and reseller partners. The platform supports Pan-European as well as …

Tags:Europe| NEC

Samsung Updates A-Series Smartphones

by Milos Pavlovic

Samsung has released the 2017 versions of its mid-range A3, A5 and A7 smartphones around the world and the handsets have been made available immediately. The devices have an AP68 certification meaning that they …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Mozilla Stops Firefox OS Development

by Alan Spencer

Mozilla has stopped Firefox OS development and laid off a team of around 50 people who were working on the project. This effectively marks the end of the company’s attempts to build a commercial …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Sony to Remove YouTube From Some 2012 Products

by Alan Spencer

Sony will be removing YouTube on 2012 Blu-ray players and cinema systems due to apparent problems caused by changes by Google. Last year, the YouTube app disappeared from 2012 Sony TVs and the time …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05

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ISE 2017 Catch-Up

by Bob Raikes

As a friend has often said to me, covering major events is like ‘trying to drink from the fire hose’, so you never catch everything at the time. However, we like to cover as …

Tags:Intel| ISE 2017| Large Display Monitor| OPS| Samsung| Scala (now Stratacache)| Smart Digital Signage| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Chinese Smartphone Market Sees19% Growth

by Bob Raikes

The latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker has been published and shows that the Chinese smartphone market grew by 19% in 2016 when compared with 2015. In addition, the last quarter of 2016 saw …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Global Shipments of LCD TVs Increase by 1.6% in 2016

by Alan Spencer

Figures released by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, show that global shipments of LCD TV sets for 2016 increased 1.6% percent annually to reach 219.2 million units. Shipment growth was attributed to the strong …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05