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PC Market Stabilizes with Solid Fourth Quarter Shipments Despite Component Shortages, According to IDC

Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (Desktop, Notebook, and Workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16), posting ...

Display Vendors Recognised at Red Dot Awards

The annual Red Dot design awards have taken place, with display companies taking multiple wins. 10 Lenovo products won awards, including ...

Disney Distances Itself from Earlier Streaming

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney has no plans to allow streaming of its new releases like other studios that offer ...

Panasonic Commits Royalty Free Code to Internet of Things

In the high stakes game of moving everything to the cloud, the idea of truly Open Source code (implementation) and protocol ...

Flexible 7” Touch Panel with Integrated OLED Display Developed

Partnering Touch and OLED Technologies: Heraeus and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan demonstrate new flexible technologies for the touch ...

Open-Source Platform Adds Microdisplay

Tinyduino is an open-source wearables development platform, based on Arduino, which will soon be offering a 0.9″ OLED microdisplay to its ...

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Wagamama Uses Novel Sign at Gatwick

by Bob Raikes

As we were waiting for our plane out to Las Vegas, we noticed this display from the Wagamama restaurant chain which now has a large sign outside using ‘stretched’ displays. The content is designed …

Tags:Aviation| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Battle of the TV Titans – Samsung vs. LG at CES 2017

by Sweta Dash

Samsung and LG battled for next gen TV display technology dominance at CES 2017. Top consumer brands generally showcase their latest and greatest TV products at the event to establish technology supremacy and set …

Tags:CES 2017| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 02

BBC

iPlayer Breaks Records

by Yvette Raikes

BBC iPlayer received a record 69.3 million requests in the week between Christmas and New Year. It was particularly popular on mobiles on New Year’s Eve! This helped to make December its best ever …

Tags:BBC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Dell 8K Monitor Available Soon

by Bob Raikes

Dell had booked the Yardbird restaurant in the Venetian to show its latest monitors and PCs. We met up with the monitor group and we immediately were attracted by a new 31.5″ 8K monitor, …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

JCDecaux Displays in the Basque Region

by Yvette Raikes

JCDecaux has extended its coverage in the Basque region of France. Its contracts with the cities of Bayonne and Anglet have been extended by 18 and 15 years respectively. The company has also won …

Tags:France| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

DOOH Used to Stop Smoking

by Yvette Raikes

In Stockholm, Sweden, a pharmacy chain has placed a DOOH poster in the city centre which ‘coughs’ if anyone passes by smoking. The screen has been fitted with a smoke detector and is to …

Tags:Back Panel| DOOH| Healthcare| Large Display Monitor| Sweden| Vol 24 - Issue 02

MediaTek Will See Weak Start to 2017

by Yvette Raikes

MediaTek’s Q1 shipments of smartphone chipsets are predicted to fall by 20% QoQ, according to the China-based Commercial Times. It cited lower demand for entry-level models in India and keen price competition. MediaTek’s Helio …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Xiaomi

Xiaomi Aims for CNY100 billion in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi’s CEO has said that the firm’s target this year is CNY100 billion ($14.5 billion) in 2017, a slower rate of growth as it tries to cope with its fast growth. It believes that …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Xiaomi

Smartphone Market to Depend on Component Supply

by Bob Raikes

Sources in Asia are pointing to shortages of key components of displays as well as memory and optical sensors as being potential blocks to the growth of brands below the top rank that are …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Philips 40″ Curved Monitor Ships

by Bob Raikes

Philips has started shipping the new version of its 40″ display, the BDM4037UW that we saw at IFA (Philips Launches First OLED TV with Ambilight). The UltraHD monitor has a wider colour gamut of …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Altice Reports US Viewing Data

by Yvette Raikes

Altice has released the results of its analysis of the viewing trends of its Optimum TV customers in its USA Data Flash Review. Live tune-in continues to be the popular way of watching (91.9%), …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 02

A New Means to Produce Graphene Has Display Applications

by Arthur Berman

This week’s news contained a report that, for the first time, OLED electrodes have been produced from graphene. The process was developed and optimized as part of an EU-funded program called the “Gladiator” project. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Fraunhofer| Graphene| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02