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Hamburg Gets Taxis with Advertising

Taxi-Ad will roll out digital advertising on taxis in Hamburg after getting an approval to use the technology. German law does not allow drivers to be distracted, but the company has got an exemption from the regulations which generally limit advertising to signs on the door according to ‘Welt‘ (in German). The company believes that … Read more

Gartner Says 2016 Marked Fifth Consecutive Year of Worldwide PC Shipment Decline

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Worldwide PC shipments totaled 72.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, a 3.7 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2015, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. For the year, 2016 PC shipments totaled 269.7 million units, a 6.2 percent decline from 2015. PC shipments have declined annually since 2012. “Stagnation in … Read more

CTA Says the US is Heading for a Record Year in Technology

Every year the end of the Holiday Season marks a new start for the electronics world with the CES in the first week of January. For a good reason this marks a new beginning for the consumer electronics world. There are new products all over and if you thought that the new gadget you just … Read more

CES 2017 What’s Driving the Virtual Reality Initiative?

Intel made a significant push into VR to kick off its CES presence in 2017. The focus was an “all-in” approach that the company took by devoting its full 45 minute press day presentation by creating a lavish 250 plush leather seat VR theater with real-time streaming of VR content to each Oculus Rift wearing … Read more

Mood Media Supports Samsung SSP Platform

We missed it at the time, but we thought some of our readers would still be interested to know that Mood Media has made its MVision signage software available on the Samsung SSP smart signage platform. The platform will also support Mood TV for QSRs. The advantage of the support is that no external hardware … Read more

Hisense Focuses on LaserCast TV and HDR-compatible Models

Hisense, which also manages the Sharp brand in North America, came to CES to showcase two type of large screen display solutions. This included the projection-based Laser Cast TV and a full range of HDR TV models. Most will only be HDR-compatible, with just a few flagship products offering a wider color gamut and higher … Read more

Lenovo and Kopin Form Joint Venture to Commercialize Enterprise AR Headsets

Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG), the global technology industry fund of Lenovo Group, and Kopin Corporation, a leading developer of innovative wearable computing technologies and solutions, today announced they formed a joint venture, Lenovo New Vision, a new subsidiary of LCIG. Lenovo New Vision focuses on AR smart headsets for a broad range of … Read more

Vega: AMD’s New Graphics Architecture for Virtually Unlimited Workloads

?Today AMD unveiled preliminary details of its forthcoming GPU architecture, Vega. Conceived and executed over 5 years, Vega architecture enables new possibilities in PC gaming, professional design and machine intelligence that traditional GPU architectures have not been able to address effectively. Data-intensive workloads are becoming the new normal, and the parallel nature of the GPU … Read more

Vega: AMD’s New Architecture for ‘Virtually Unlimited Workloads’

AMD has announced a new GPU architecture called Vega that is for PC gaming, professional design and machine intelligence. AMD said that these applications need fast access to massive amounts of memory. The Vega architecture’s memory subsystem enables GPUs to address very large data sets spread across a mix of memory types. The high-bandwidth cache … Read more

Planar QE Series Supports UltraHD

Planar has announced the QE series of UltraHD displays in 75″, 86″ and 98″ sizes. The series includes an embedded signage player and multi-touch options. Displays support up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz via HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 and HDCP 2.2 is supported. Features include dual 10W speakers. The displays can be run … Read more