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Trans-Lux Corporation said that it has installed 3,000 sq. ft. (278m²) of LED display at the Union Station in Washington, DC, which is visited by 40 million people every year. The display was put in as part of a major refurbishment. Technical details of the installation were not available at press time.
ABI Research has forecast the AR/VR device market at 37 million by 2018, representing 83% CAGR and believes that companies including Fovi3D, Meta and Sensics will be lead development. Companies such as Eonite Perception, Occipital and uSens, which support machine vision will also help in developing mixed reality applications. The firm said that while VR … Read more
TCL said that it would launch the new BlackBerry ‘flagship’ device just before the MWC event in Barcelona on the evening of 25th February. The company was not showing the phone officially at CES, but Channel News Australia got this picture of the device.
The latest Brand Finance Global 500 report put Google’s brand value at US$109 billion and Apple’s at US$107 billion. This ends a five year reign by Apple. Amazon came in fourth place with an estimated brand value of US$106 billion with Microsoft fifth at US$76 billion. Samsung (which moved from seventh to sixth), Verizon and … Read more
Sony has issued its third quarter results (for last quarter of 2016) for the Home Entertainment and Sound division The division, which includes LCD TVs, Blu-ray and DVD players and recorders as well as audio devices, saw a decrease in sales by 12.1% year-on-year. The decrease was primarily due a decrease in home audio and … Read more
Sony Corp. announced its FY17 Q3 sales of ¥2397.5 bn ($20.7 bn) and net profit of ¥19.6 bn ($169 mn), resulting in a net profit margin of 0.8%. The quarterly sales were lower by 7.1% as compared to FY16 Q3, while the net profit was lower by 83.7% as compared to the corresponding figure in … Read more
The US ed tech conference season kicks off at the start of the year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (this year, FETC 2017), held each year in Orlando, Florida. FETC always sets the tone for the year, previewing what’s up and coming for educational technology in the U.S. market. I … Read more
An Indian government official has told a news agency that Wistron will start manufacturing for Apple in Karnataka by the end of April 2017. Apple has yet to officially confirm the plan. Karnataka is a state in the south western region of India with Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) being the high-technology hub and capital of the … Read more
This week, we have included the BETT report for readers of the LDM newsletter. As I mentioned in the report, I was surprised that there wasn’t a lot more VR technology at the event – perhaps I was looking in the wrong places! Nor was there much in the mobile device space, although everybody had … Read more
This week, we’ve been bombarded with releases and announcements from brands in the build up to ISE. Rather than covering them all in full (some we have covered in recent weeks), we decided to cover them in our full report, after the event. However, we thought some of you might need a ‘heads up’ on … Read more
Trans-Lux Corporation today announced the successful manufacture and installation of 3000 square feet of large format LED digital displays and signage at Union Station in Washington, D.C. Trans-Lux Corporation, a leading supplier of LED digital displays and next generation LED lighting, is nearing 100 years in business, while Union Station has been open more than … Read more
Pearl TV today applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s publication of a draft proposed rulemaking that would authorize television broadcasters to deploy on a voluntary basis the next generation, IP-based TV broadcasting technology. Pearl is a business organization of eight large station groups which collectively operate more than 220 local TV stations. “As broadcasters focused on … Read more
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