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LG is believed to be bringing its first microLED TV, reported to be “the world’s largest”, to IFA 2018, which takes place in Berlin, Germany between August 31st and September 5th. According to The Korea Herald, the screen is said to be 175″ in size, beating Samsung’s own micro LED TV, “The Wall”, by almost … Read more
India’s traditional PC market shipments posted a 28.1% growth year-on-year, with shipments totalling 2.25 million units in the second quarter of 2018, according to IDC. The high growth can be partially attributed to the fact that the second quarter of 2017 was heavily impacted by the then-upcoming GST implementation. (India Increases Duty on TVs, Panels … Read more
McDonald’s and its franchisees have announced that they will be spending a collective $6 billion on the modernisation of their restaurants throughout the US between now and 2020. Renovations will include digital self-service kiosks and “bright and easy to read digital menu boards” both in the restaurants themselves and outdoor drive-through areas. Image: Evoke (McDonald’s … Read more
Watchfire Signs, based in Illinois, US, has been chosen to completely rebuild the canopy that is part of the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. The $30 million project will be completed in 2019. The company says that the new screen will be up to seven times brighter than the original and four times sharper, … Read more
Lenovo is launching a brand-new addition to its ThinkPad mobile workstation portfolio – the ThinkPad P1. Lenovo’s thinnest, lightest and sleekest mobile workstation, the ThinkPad P1 gives users the style they want and the performance they need. The ThinkPad P1 fulfills the desire for workstation performance and reliability in a thin and light design. The … Read more
I’ve been in Vancouver most of this week and we’ll have the report on the Siggraph event for you next week. It was interesting and was a first attendence at the event for me. The show is fully of seriously technical sessions for the content creators that make the visual effects and animations that come … Read more
Cortana and Alexa users in the US can now access a “public preview” of the integration of the two virtual assistant platforms. Users with Alexa-capable products like Amazon’s Echo smart speaker can now speak to Cortana to access Windows 10-based productivity features, while those using Windows 10 can now engage Alexa to make purchases on … Read more
Following a period of lower demand and utilisation, Samsung’s A4 OLED facility may resume production in October because the company has secured a new Chinese buyer for its flexible OLED touch screens, according to ET News. Apparently, demand had dropped to such a low level that the 6G facility was more-or-less shut down. If there’s … Read more
Epson is now providing five-year carry-in warranties for many of its business projectors purchased from August 1st 2018 — five years for the device itself and five years or 1000 hours (whichever comes first) for the lamp. Customers can also upgrade to an on-site repair service via the company’s CoverPlus warranty package. Products covered by … Read more
The global LED display market reach a sales value of $5.3 billion in 2017, according to Futuresource Consulting. The Americas region reached a key milestone in its development, surpassing $1 billion for the first time. Futuresource says that Leyard had the highest market share of the $4.5 billion LED video display market and the narrow-pixel-pitch … Read more
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $117.9 billion during the second quarter of 2018, an increase of 6% over the previous quarter and 20.5% more than the second quarter of 2017. Global sales for the month of June 2018 reached $39.3 billion, an uptick of 1.5% over last month’s … Read more
Lenovo announced Q1 net profits of $77 million, a turn-round from net losses of $72 million a year ago, on revenue which rose 19% to $11.9 billion from $10.0 billion. Last quarter, Lenovo combined its PC and smart devices groups into its Intelligent Devices Group and said that rethinking the ways devices interact had led … Read more
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