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Fujitsu Offers “Meeting Room as a Service”

Fujitsu has resisted, up to now, entering the market for meeting room or presentation displays. One of the reasons, it told us several years ago, was that it’s business is almost entirely with IT departments and often A/V equipment was sold to Facilities Management and sometimes to building owners, rather than users and tenants. However, … Read more

HTC Signs Strategic Partnership with Shenzhen Municipal Government

HTC Corporation (“HTC”), a pioneer in innovative, smart mobile and virtual reality (VR) technologies, today signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Under the agreement, the Shenzhen Municipal Government will support HTC in setting up the China VR Research Institute and the two parties will work together to establish the 10 billion … Read more

HTC Partners with Shenzhen Government for VR

HTC has signed a deal with the Shenzen Municipal Government to set up an RMB 10 billion ($1.45 billion) fund for the development of VR and the formation of a China VR Research Institute. The Institute is expected to have multiple R&D centres in the core technologies of sensors, display, graphics, data visualization, human-machine interaction … Read more

Optoma Claims Brightest Fixed Lens Laser Projector

Optoma in the US announced the ZU510T-W, a 1920 x 1200 projector based on a laser phosphor light source with 5,500 (centre) and 5,300 Ansi lumens of output and using a single 0.67″ DC3 DLP chip. Contrast is claimed at 1,800:1 (full on/full off). Throw ratio from the fixed lens is 1.2-2.13 and the unit … Read more

Internet Advertising Top in 2015

The European Audiovisual Observatory released its data on the development of advertising revenues in Europe (including Russia and Turkey). It found that in 2015, internet advertising went past TV to become the top segment for the same time. Outdoor advertising revenue is slowly growing and looks on course to overtake magazine advertising as that segment … Read more

Injunctions vs Everlight Based on Nichia’s YAG Patent Granted in Germany

Nichia Corporation (“Nichia”) filed a request for three preliminary injunctions in Germany at the Düsseldorf District Court against Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Everlight”), alleging that the white LED products “334-15/X1C5-1QSA”, „334-15/T2C2-1TVB“ and „XI3535-KT577J1-03201-000P“ manufactured by Everlight and distributed in Germany infringe Nichia’s YAG patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929). The Düsseldorf District Court … Read more

Nichia Wins Injunction Against Everlight in Germany

Nichia has been granted injunctions by the Düsseldorf District Court against Everlight over claims that the company’s white LED products infringe Nichia’s YAG patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929). Analyst Comment The companies have been in dispute over patents in different places around the world since 2012. (Nichia/Everlight Dispute Ongoing) (BR)

LG OLED TVs Cheap in Black Friday Build-up

Although readers of our pdf version may not be viewing the news until Black Friday is well and truly here, we thought it worthwhile to report that LG’s OLED55B6P UltraHD OLED TV is selling for $1797 via Electronic Express in the US and the 65″ version being offered for $2,797. The sets were also selling … Read more