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Microsoft Mesh is Revealed at Ignite

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft has announced its Mesh XR platform during its Ignite developer conference, based on its Azure platform. The app is designed as a shared platform for Microsoft’s AR HoloLens platform, Windows …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Cloud Computing| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Future of Work Solutions Fuel Dell Technologies’ Record Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dell reported its full fiscal year result and saw 2% growth in 2020 to $94.2 billion with net income of $3.5 billion and operating income of $5.1 billion, up 96% on …

Tags:Dell| Financial Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Links Week Ending 5th March 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Sharp NEC Pulls out of ISE 2021 …

Data: Smart TVs see 157% YoY increase in viewing hours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Conviva said that in the last year the time spent streaming TV in Europe had grown 122% while globally there was an increase of 157% in viewing hours using SmartTVs. That …

Tags:Smart TV| TV Viewing

Samsung has a 76″ LED TV Later This Year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung held an online event to talk about its TV plans for 2021 and gave more details of the 110″ and 99″ microLED TVs which will be available at the end …

Tags:MicroLED| MiniLED| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

Foxconn-Backed TV Maker Vizio Files a Second Time for IPO

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TV brand Vizio, which has been so successful in the US, has filed for an IPO for the second time on the NYSE under the symbol VZIO. The first plan for …

Tags:Financial Data| Investment| TVs (TV Sets)

EU & UK cinema attendance down by 70.7% in 2020 amid global pandemic

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The European Audiovisual Observatory said that cinema attendance in the EU + UK dropped by 70.7% in 2020 compared to 2019. Taking into account other European territories outside the EU and …

Tags:Cinema going

Kuo: iPhone 13 series to feature smaller notch, 120Hz display, larger batteries, more

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An analyst with a good track record of Apple tracking, Ming-Chi Kuo, has said that the iPhone 13 series will have four models with the same display sizes as the 12 …

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Lenovo X1 Fold Gets A Review

by Bob Raikes

What They Say One of the interesting experiments in using foldable displays is the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold and T3 has reviewed the unit. T3 found that the brightness was just under 300 cd/m² …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Lenovo

Global smartphone shipments to grow 50% in 1Q21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research is forecasting that smartphone sales will be up 50% year on year to 340 million units in Q1 2021 with sales of Apple handsets going well (forecast at >60 …

Tags:Apple| Forecasts| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphones

North American OTT TV revenues to double

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digital TV Research forecast that North American OTT TV revenues will continue to grow and will reach $94 billion in 2026, nearly double the $49 billion seen in 2020. $88 billion …

Tags:North America| OTT Video| SVOD

Is Kura Too Good to be True?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat tip to DSCC’s weekly subscription newsletter for pointing me to a blog and interview with Kelly Peng of Kura, a company developing some AR glasses that have very (too?) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED