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Learning from Successful Educational Projects

In an article published earlier this month (A 3D Success Story: The Wilson County Schools), I highlighted the efforts of the ...

Spain Sees High Pay TV Growth

Spanish pay-TV saw an 18.5% YoY increase in sales in 2015 with revenue reaching over €2 billion, according to a report ...

Absen Appoints Regional Sales Director

Absen Optoelectronics has appointed Christopher Backhaus as its regional sales director for the German-speaking region. Backhaus joins Absen from Barco LiveDots, ...

Acer Achieves 2015 Carbon Goal Early

Acer America will manage to offset 100% of its carbon emissions this year, the company has announced – a goal it ...

Pay-DTT Rises, But IPTV Rules Croatia

According to HAKOM, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, pay-DTT was the fastest-growing segment of the Croatian TV market last ...

Internet on a TV – call for an iPad?

I was intrigued to see the result that Americans now see the internet as more essential to their lives than TV. ...

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Net Display Systems Covers All Bases

by Bob Raikes

Net Display Systems was demonstrating its Pads 4 digital signage software (mentioned by the firm’s UK distributor, Anders and Kern when we met the company at the Retail Digital Signage Expo, last week). When …

Tags:Aviation| Digital Signage Software| Flight Information (FIDs)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Does Thunderbolt 3 Allow a New Class of Displays?

by Bob Raikes

We have more events to report on this week with the show report from the Retail DSE in Large Display Monitor and with our CeBIT report in both newsletters. We were also at PTE …

Tags:Editorial| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Cord-Shaving Outweighs Cord-Cutting

by Tom Allen

Research by Nielsen suggests that cord-cutting concerns are not as well-founded as expected. Most consumers are likely to cut back on, but not cancel, their pay-TV services, and complement them with streaming services like …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Streaming Video| VOD| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Flexible Will be Fastest-Growing OLED Segment to 2018

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association (OLED-A) expects the OLED market to grow at a 22% CAGR between 2014 and 2018 – with capacity growth from 1 million m² in 2009 to 6.8 million m² by the …

Tags:AUO| BOE| Flexible Displays| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDA (OLED Association)| OLEDs| Samsung Display| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 11

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 11

by Tom Allen

The TCG121WX 12″ TFT-LCD module from Kyocera (MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 21) is now available in Europe. Nokia has shared the price of its Ozo VR camera (Nokia Announces Ozo VR …

Tags:Cameras| Kyocera| LCD Modules| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Pricing| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Microsoft Widens Windows 10 Availability

by Tom Allen

Windows 10 Mobile is now available for older Lumia phones. Only phones that will receive an upgrade to the user experience – i.e., installing Windows 10 will not slow them down – are eligible. …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 11| Windows

Detachables to Drive European PC Market

by Tom Allen

Detachable tablet demand will drive the European PC and tablet market in the near future, says IDC. Detachable and slate tablet shipments will have a 51% share of the overall client computing (PC and …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Europe| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Smartwatches Will Remain Dominant to 2020

by Tom Allen

An expanding vendor base, as well as rising consumer awareness and demand, will push annual wearable growth to double digits between 2015 and 2020, says IDC. This year, worldwide shipments are expected to reach …

Tags:Android| Apple| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 11| Wearables

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Xiaomi Delays Notebook

by Tom Allen

Taiwan-based supply chain sources claim that Xiaomi will delay the launch of its first notebook (previously rumoured to be 15″, most recently said to be 12.5″) until Q2’16 – one quarter behind the original …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 11| Xiaomi

UMC Result 27/01/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) reported net profit of NT$3.16 billion ($96 million), a decline of 30% YoY from NT$4.56 billion. Turnover was NT$33.85 billion ($1.03 billion), a 9% decline from NT$37.24 billion ($1.12 billion). …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UMC| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Forecast for AR and VR Promises the Next Big Thing

by Norbert Hildebrand

Whenever a new technology comes along, the ultimate question is ‘How much revenue will it create?’. In the case of VR and AR most researchers see this as a high potential technology that is …

Tags:AR Glasses| Game Playing| Market| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Virtual Sets| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Oculus Story Studio Founder Sees VR just at the Beginning

by Norbert Hildebrand

As reported by Polygon, Max Planck a veteran from Pixar Studios is comparing the development of VR content to the early years of cinema. He is drawing parallels on how the cinema industry was …

Tags:Content Creation| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 11