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At the OLED World Summit, John Jacobs (once of Apple and also DisplaySearch) of Intel talked about the impact of OLED on IT applications such as notebooks and monitors. OLED-based notebooks have, of course, started to appear in the market from Lenovo, HP and Samsung and Dell has shown an OLED monitor (although it has … Read more
In a talk at the recent OLED Summit, Dr. Jang Jin Yoo of LG Display presented research that his company has done that suggests that when the area of a very bright HDR image is very small, as it often is in movie content, OLED TV is much more capable of maintaining its brightness level … Read more
Apple has set up shop in Mexico with the store dubbed; Apple Via Santa Fe, that will offer Apple’s products and services.
Canadian streaming service Shomi will be closing on 30th November. The company said that operating the business was more challenging than expected and cited changes in the business climate, as well as the market for online video. Analyst Comment Just recently at IBC, a start up told us that Shomi was the ‘Canadian Netflix’. We … Read more
Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), Mexico’s telecommunications regulator has revealed that the last phase of analogue TV switch-off will be completed in November. IFT says that most digital towers will start distributing digital signals by 30th September and plans are underway to distribute 100,000 digital TVs among low income families.
Samsung has released the Galaxy On8 in India. It has a 5.5″ Super AMOLED display with FullHD resolution. The chip has an octa core CPU (unidentified at the time of writing) with a clock rate of 1.6GHz and 3GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. The camera is a 13 megapixel unit with F1.9 … Read more
K-ICT Born2Global Centre (Born2Global), a major Korean government agency under the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), announced on Sept. 27 that WELT (Wellness Belt), a member of Born2Global had raised more than double its original Kickstarter (http://kck.st/2bJhSyd) goal for its independently developed smart fashion belt. WELT is continuing crowdfunding with smart fashion … Read more
Although it doesn’t have a display, we couldn’t resist mentioning the Welt (Wellness belt), a kickstarter project to develop a ‘smart belt’. The company said that it had raised more than double its original Kickstarter goal. The device helps users by taking waist measurement, by counting steps and time spent seated. The belt communicates with … Read more
IHS has predicted that AMOLED revenues in the small/medium display segment this year will reach $14.3 billion, just ahead of the $14 billion of a-si TFT LCD, making OLED the second biggest segment behind LTPS LCD, which is the biggest segment this year. Increasingly, the market will be split between LTPS LCD and AMOLED, with … Read more
Interactive Scape of Berlin is holding a free multi-touch workshop, hosted by 3M, in Neuss, Germany, on 13th October. Aimed at project managers, designers and experts in the field of digital signage, the workshop will use a variety of software and practical examples, including 3M’s metal-mesh technology, to explain object recognition and its uses. There … Read more
The OUE Tower in Los Angles is the 13th tallest skyscraper in the USA. Its lobby now boasts a 38.5m x 5.2m curved LED videowall, which it claims is the largest and highest resolution digital art feature west of the Mississippi. Silicon Core’s 4mm pixel pitch screen can be seen from the street as well … Read more
Tunisian commercial TV channel, Nessma TV, launched a mobile network called Nessma Mobile. The network has taken delivery of OTT online video technology from SotalCloud to provide streamed video for over 200,000 subscribers. SotalCloud support enabled Nessma Mobile to go live with the new network in just three weeks.
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