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GfK Forecasts Positive Development for Consumer Electronics in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

According to the latest estimates from GfK, the global consumer electronics market will once again surpass a market volume of $1,000 billion this year, with an increase of just under 4%. The three largest …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Eutelsat CEO Joins Netflix Board of Directors

by Andrew Fenn

Netflix has added Rodolphe Belmer to its board, bringing the total number of directors to ten and expanding the breadth of its global and entertainment experience. Since March 2016, Belmer has served as CEO …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Recruitment & Appointments| Satellite| Vol 25 - Issue 04

3M Files Patent Violation Lawsuit Against Elo

by Andrew Fenn

3M and 3M Innovative Properties have filed a patent infringement lawsuit in federal district court in Wilmington, Delaware, against Elo Touch Solutions. The suit alleges that certain Elo Touch projected capacitive products infringe 3M’s …

Tags:3M (MMM)| ELO| Large Display Monitor| Litigation| Metal Mesh| Patents| Touch| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Qualcomm fined €997 for Apple Exclusivity Deal

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has been fined €997 million ($1.2 billion) by the EU for a deal that the company made in 2011 that rewarded Apple for an exclusive agreement with the firm for LTE baseband modems.As …

Tags:Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

NEC InfinityBoard Now Available in EMEA

by Bob Raikes

NEC previewed its InfinityBoard at ISE last year and told us at its Showcase last spring that it would be ‘shipping soon’. Now the company has said that the displays (in 65″ and 84″) …

Tags:Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Light Field Lab Raises $7 Million in Seed Funding

by Andrew Fenn

Light Field Lab has raised $7 million in seed funding for its holographic display technology. Khosla Ventures, Sherpa Capital and R7 Partners have made investments in the technology, which is designed to show holographic …

Tags:Investment| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

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Continental: The Future of Mobility is Electric

by Ken Werner

Continental is a huge global Tier 1 supplier to automotive industry that is develops and delivers subsystems for nearly every imaginable automotive function. (A different division is the well-know tire maker.) Among the concepts …

Tags:audio| Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Rockwell Collins Result 26/01/2018

by Vijaya

Rockwell Collins, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018. Q1 reported sales was $2.011 billion, showing 69% growth compared to $1.193 billion reported in Q1 of 2017. The company …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Rockwell Collins| Vol 25 - Issue 03

Harman and Samsung Find Synergy — Really!

by Ken Werner

Whenever one company merges with or devours another, it predicts that a cornucopia of synergistic value will result. More often than not, it doesn’t, but since Samsung completed its acquisition of Harman in March …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Has Visteon Found a Sweet Spot?

by Ken Werner

Tier 1 automotive supplier Visteon thinks it has found a display sweet spot. While other automotive suppliers are developing clusters and cockpits with OLEDs and QLEDs, Visteon feels that exploiting the current oversupply of …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2018| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 02