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Korean Equipment Manufacturers Thrive

The ETNews in Korea said that Korean display manufacturing equipment companies are having a good year because of the strong investment by Korean panel makers in OLED fabs. The paper highlighted SFA, AP Systems, HB Technology and DMS. SFA is reported to have also done well from supplying glass making equipment to Corning. SEMES moved … Read more

IMax Gets VR Investment from Acer

We have reported several times on the developments by Imax of its VR event plans (Acer Jumps onto Gaze for Monitors & PCs). Now the company has announced a $50 million fund to finance the development of content and has received a contribution of $10 million from Acer, which is working with Starbreeze and Imax. … Read more

MicroVision and STMs Collaborate on MEMs

Microvision and STMicroelectronics are working together to develop, sell, and market Laser Beam Scanning (LBS) technology. In addition to the pico projection and heads-up display (HUD) markets that both companies are currently addressing with their LBS solutions, the firms want to address emerging markets and applications including VR and AR, 3D sensing and Advanced Driver … Read more

Clevo Reaches Notebook Record in October

Clevo saw Q3 net profits of NTD34.7 million ($1.1 million) on turnover of NTD4.9 billion ($154 million). This brought earnings for the nine months to NTD356.7 million ($11.2 billion) on revenue of NTD14.0 billion ($439.4 million). October sales were NTD2.2 billion ($69.2 million), up 7% YoY and a monthly record, leading to year-to-date turnover of … Read more

Vuzix Wins CES Awards for Blade 3000

Vuzix said that it has won four International CES Innovation 2017 awards, for its upcoming Blade 3000 Smart Sunglasses. The Blade 3000 supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and wirelessly displaying virtual information. Vuzix Blade 3000 Smart Sunglasses include an integrated HD camera, head-motion tracker, touch pad, tactile haptic vibration feedback, built-in noise cancelling mics with … Read more

Orbi Prime 4K Camera Glasses Have 360º Video Functionality

Meet Orbi Inc, a new start-up from Berkely, California that has taken a new type of video glasses to IndieGoGo. The Orbi Prime, as it is called, has four FHD cameras with no direct display to see the recorded video but a wireless connection to share the recording instantly with a smartphone or other mobile … Read more

AirFuel Alliance Pushes Wireless for PCs

The AirFuel Alliance has formed a new PC Task Forces including Dell, Lenovo, STMicroelectronics and others to further the evolution of wireless charging for PCs. The task force will work towards encouraging all PC OEM’s to embed resonant technology in PCs (including laptops, tablets, and 2-in-1 laptop/tablet hybrids) through volume production. The goal is to … Read more

Eutelsat and Broadpeak Combine to Deliver Live TV and VOD to Mobiles

Broadpeak, a leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies, and Eutelsat Communications are combining their complementary skills to offer content providers a satellite-based solution for multiscreen video delivery to connected devices. Their new offer is a gamechanger for extending access to video content on mobile devices beyond terrestrial networks and has a competitive edge … Read more

Eutelsat and Broadpeak for IP to Mobile

Eutelsat and Broadpeak said that they have collaborated to deliver live TV and VOD over satellite to mobile devices. The idea is to use the Broadpeak CDN network to drive content through the Eutelsat satellite infrastructure to sets using the Smartbeam technology that Eutelsat has developed. Tricolor TV of Russia is the first company to … Read more

SNL Kagan Looks at US Multichannel and European SVOD

SNL Kagan released the latest report on the US multichannel subscriber report and said that the combined cable, Direct-broadcast-satellite (DBS) and telecommunications (telco) sectors lost 430,000 video customers during the period. DBS ended in positive territory, but telco again weighed heavily on the multichannel universe. Meanwhile, the cable sector continues to show progress in mitigating … Read more