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Comcast Abandons Time Warner Bid

Comcast has terminated its $45.2 billion merger agreement with Time Warner Cable, largely because US regulators were against the merger. Go-ahead ...

SA Photonics Shows High Brightness See-Thru Module

High performance HMD maker SA Photonics showed their range of monocular and binocular head-mounted Displays (HMDs) at I/ITSEC 2016. Of note ...

UltraHD Sony Smartphone at CES 2017?

There are rumours that Sony will have a new Z7 smartphone at CES that has an UltraHD display, as included on ...

Voxon Set to License Volumetric 3D Technology

Voxon, Co. (Adelaide, Australia and San Francisco, CA) has developed a volumetric 3D display called Voxiebox. Voxiebox works by rapidly moving ...

TD Maverick Signs Smart Partnership for Benelux

TD Maverick in Belgium and the Netherlands has signed a new partnership with Smart Technologies, which will see Smart’s full range ...

Anders IPS LCD is for Dashboards & Instruments

AndersDX in the UK has a new 16:6 aspect IPS TFT LCD module with 1280 x 480 resolution and 12.3″ diagonal. ...

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Panasonic Focuses Touch on Automotive

by Tom Allen

Panasonic is seeking to transition its touch panel production completely to vehicle applications by 2020, say sources quoting Japan’s Nikkei newspaper. About 70% of Panasonic’s touch business is dedicated to vehicle applications today. According …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Intel Completes Altera Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

Intel has completed its acquisition of Altera, a maker of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).(Intel to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion) Analyst Comment We have previously reported on the work that Altera was doing on …

Tags:FPGAs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 52

AR and VR Due at CES 2016

by Steve Sechrist

If you follow the buzz on the technology street, one of the hottest technologies anticipated at CES this year will be Augmented and Virtual Reality, better known by their AR and VR acronyms. From …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| CES 2016| Siggraph 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Mouser Features the Latest Type-C and 3.1 on New USB Technology Site

by Isaac Oburu

Mouser Electronics, Inc. today unveiled its newly designed USB Technology site, created to give engineers easy-to-access information on the latest technical advances in USB Standards. As part of Mouser’s growing selection of Applications & …

Tags:Applications| USB

DUNE HD SOLO 4K — new model for the New Year!

by Isaac Oburu

Dune announced a new model in the DUNE HD media players’ product line. Dune HD SOLO 4K is based on Hi-End Sigma Designs SMP8758 processor. This model significantly extends famous Dune HD media player …

Tags:Digital Signage| Media Players

GTK launches O-Film technology for TFT Displays

by Isaac Oburu

GTK announced the availability of O-Film technology, which, when used in conjunction with standard TFT displays, dramatically improves the achievable viewing angles. The O-Film is a polariser that is applied to the display and …

Tags:display technology| TFT

GTK’s After-Market Film Widens Viewing Angles

by Tom Allen

UK-based GTK has created a new polariser called the ‘O-Film’, which is said to improve viewing angles when applied to displays. GTK’s Clive Dickinson, a business manager, says that the O-Film can be used …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Polarisers| Vol 22 - Issue 52| Wide Viewing Angles

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Hon Hai Linked to Sharp Buyout

by Tom Allen

Sources in Japan, including the Nikkei newspaper, claim that Hon Hai has proposed a purchase of the entirety of Sharp for ¥300 billion ($2.5 billion). The figure represents a 50% – 60% premium on …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 52

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Acer Signs Sarco

by Tom Allen

Acer has chosen to use Al Seeb Technical Establishment (Sarco) as its distributor in Oman.

Tags:Acer| Distribution| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Sumitomo will Raise OLED Capacity

by Tom Allen

Conducting inspections at Sumitomo’s plant in South Korea. Photo: Nikkei.Sumitomo Chemical is to invest up to ¥20 billion ($165.9 million), to raise OLED touch panel production capacity at its Pyeongtaek factory by 40%. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Production Capacity| Sumitomo| Vol 22 - Issue 52