Entatech Shuts Down Southern Office
Entatech has closed their Chessington office following loss of it’s contract with Fujitsu. Fujitsu ended the contract after a distribution review.
Beta Adds Philips for Signage
Beta Distribution has announced that it has entered into a distribution deal with Philips (MMD) to distribute its large format display solutions. The company will also offer content services that resellers can exploit.
Sony Removes YouTube App From Older TVs
Sony has announced that they will remove the YouTube app on Sony internet-enabled 2012 TVs following changes by YouTube that can’t be supported by the TV’s hardware. YouTube switched from using the Flash Player to an HTML5-based video player last year. Sony will remove the app on 30th September 2016. Analyst Comment This highlights the … Read more
Acer Jumps onto Gaze for Monitors & PCs
Acer held the first press conference at IFA, a couple of hours before the main IFA press event. CEO, Jason Chen, started by talking about Pawbo, a new service which is for tracking and interacting with pets. The company is also getting involved in cycling systems (with GPS and camera connections and also bike cadence). … Read more
Distec Add Tianma NLT Screens to Portfolio
Distec of Germany will start distributing the Tainma NLT screens in the range of 5.7″ to 19″. The deal is a by-product of the acquisition of Fortec Ag by Distec.
Passenger TV Doubles Coverage
MVG, the Munich travel company, working with marketing firm MC R&D, has doubled screen coverage of its passenger TV service, it said in a press release. Until now the service has been available on 84 trains in the U-Bahn (metro) but it has now been extended to include 50 overground trams. This has increased the … Read more
Automotive Display Panel Shipments to Go Up – needs pic
Thanks to the greater number of display panels in cars, automotive display panel shipments worldwide will rise from 157 million panels in 2015 to 207 million units in 2019, according to Digitimes Research, giving a CAGR of 7.2%. The biggest share is taken by central information displays, which range from 7″ 840 x 480 to … Read more
Google Plans October Hardware Announcement
Google is said to be preparing to announce new hardware updates on October 4th. The company plans to present two smartphones, the Pixel and Pixel XL, a 4K Chromecast and more details on the Google Home platform, as well as a design for a DaydreamVR viewing device (provisionally named Daydream View). While details have not … Read more
Skyworth and Tencent Bring TV Gaming Device to IBCShow
Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology Co. LTD., a leading set-top box and smart home solutions provider, today unveiled the miniStation – the OTT gaming console that is the result of its successful partnership with Internet value-added services provider Tencent Holdings Limited. miniStation – an innovative TV game console based on the Android Operating System – offers … Read more
V-Nova Compression Integrated with Vimmi Distributed CDN
V-Nova Ltd., a global software IP company that delivers game-changing video and data encoding solutions, and Vimmi, the technology leader in distributed video delivery network platforms, today announced that V-Nova PERSEUS™ video compression has been integrated within the Vimmi video delivery platform. The integration represents a major milestone in enabling the launch of PERSEUS-powered online … Read more
Smartphone Forecast Drops as Competition Builds
For the second time in three months market research firm IDC cut its smartphone forecast amid maturing world-wide markets as competitive forces continue to build in the space. New research released this week from the firm said it is reducing growth in global smartphone shipments from an initial 3.4% to 1.6% for the year. IDC … Read more
Daimler’s Zetsche Discusses Improvements Coming to Mercedes Cars
Daimler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche delivered a keynote address at IFA this year which focused on three new features coming to Mercedes automobiles. These include Office Manager, Fitness Coach and Personal Assistant. Office Manager is designed to allow you to work while in your Mercedes on the way to the office. It will alert you of … Read more
