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Digital Signage on the “S” Curve

We’re heading towards the end of the quiet summer period, now, and my inbox is filling up with requests for meetings at IBC and IFA – mostly at IBC as there is a much smaller press corps and PRs make an effort to try to get those attending to come to see what their clients … Read more

Sky Deutschland Introduces New UHD STB

Sky Deutschland, a German pay-TV broadcaster, will launch the Sky+ Pro in Germany and Austria as well as its UltraHD/4K offer in Q4″16. The UHD box has 1 terabyte of hard-disc space and can store up to 185 hours of of HD recordings, and viewers can pause, rewind and record the currently running programme. Sky … Read more

Tru-Vu Brings Military Monitors to Public Use

Tru-Vu’s new VMMOB-19 Series of daylight-viewable 19″ monitors were originally designed for the US military. They have been tested to withstand extreme heat (85°) and cold (-30°), as well movement across rugged terrain. All four of the new monitors feature optical bonding and anti-reflective glass to make them usable in direct sunlight. They are built … Read more

The Dragon is Awake: Chinese Dominate Mobile Phone Rankings

Although smartphone sales are slowing, they still grew 4.3% YoY in Q2’16, to 344 million units, says Gartner in its recent report on the mobile phone market. Total mobile phone sales, including featurephones, were down 0.5%, with five of the top five vendors – four of them Chinese – showing growth: Samsung, Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi … Read more

MSI Produces Slew of VR-Ready Laptops

Nvidia’s new VR-ready GTX 10-series graphics cards, for notebooks, are already seeing use in products from several companies, with MSI announcing perhaps the most comprehensive release to-date. The company is using the GPUs in 11 new notebooks from its GT, GS, GE and GP series. Each of the new notebooks uses Nvidia’s 10-series technology: some … Read more