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Ingram Micro Reorganises in Sweden

Ingram Micro has combined its broadline (distribution) and mobility businesses in Sweden. Both branches will now be managed by Anders Wickström, while the commercial management team will be represented by Tomas Gate (Value) Mattias Johansson and Jens Enskog (Mobility), Fredrik Westerén (product and marketing), Tony Kalomirakis (corporate resellers), Björn Nilsson (sales operations) amd Joakim Samuelsson … Read more

UK Shootout Favours LCD Over OLED

HDTV Test, AV retailer Crampton and Moore and Leeds Trinity University ran an HDR TV shootout in the UK this month, and – in a surprising result – the viewers chose an LCD set over OLED. 80% of the 22 trade attendees said that they preferred the LCD TVs (Samsung’s KS9500 (KS9800 in the USA), … Read more

ProgrammatiCon Looks to Cross-Device DOOH

‘Vienna ProgrammatiCon’ will be Austria’s first event focused on programmatic marketing. It is a three-day event (28th-30th September), organised by Austrian agency E-Dialog. As well as presentations by 18 speakers, the event will cover the use of real-time data and audience targeting and cross-device DOOH. Speakers will include (L to R) Anna Petrushkina (Yahoo), Michael … Read more

SIA Predicts Five Moore Years

The 2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) (http://tinyurl.com/hqafrmu), from the Semiconductor Industry Association, predicts that Moore’s Law will be coming to end sooner rather than later: as early as 2021, in fact. The ITRS is a document, first published in 1998, that examines the challenges and opportunities facing the semiconductor industry to 2030. This … Read more

World’s First Smart Hardware MESUIT Runs Android OS on Apple iPhone

Haimawan, one of the world’s leading companies specializing in mobile operation system virtualization products and technology, and its subsidiary Jijia, announced today the official launch of its new premium smart hardware MESUIT took place in Beijing on July 20. MESUIT is the world’s first and only one smart hardware that runs Android OS on iPhones … Read more

Nanoco Announces 7-Year Supply and Licensing Agreement with Leading Display Optical Films Manufacturer Wah Hong Industrial to Market Cadmium-free Quantum Dots

Nanoco Group plc, a world leader in the development and manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials, today announced it has signed a seven-year supply and licensing agreement with Wah Hong Industrial Corporation (“Wah Hong”), a leading Taiwanese manufacturer and supplier of optical films. Under the terms of the agreement, Nanoco will supply its … Read more

NEXT Biometrics and Innolux to Invest in Capacity for NEXT’s Flexible Fingerprint Sensors

NEXT Biometrics Group ASA and Innolux, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of TFT-LCD-panels and NEXT Biometrics Group ASA today jointly announced that they are investing in establishing mass production capacity for the previously showcased NEXT flexible fingerprint sensor technology. Innolux and NEXT Biometrics has worked together for many years and NEXT Biometrics is manufacturing … Read more

AMD Acquires Hialgo

AMD has acquired California-based HiAlgo, a software company that develops PC gaming technologies. For example, HiAlgo has built software to help raise GPU efficiency, and to improve the gaming experience without overclocking. AMD says that the acquisition lays the groundwork for future gaming innovation in Radeon software. Analyst Comment Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research … Read more

OLED Will Overtake LCD by 2020

While LCD technology has been dominant in mobile phones for more than 15 years, IHS expects OLEDs to become dominant in smartphones in 2020. AMOLED displays with LTPS backplanes will represent 36% of all smartphone displays shipped in 2020, passing a-Si and LTPS TFT-LCD screens. OLEDs are more difficult to produce and use more complicated … Read more

AV Stumpfl and Barco Used in 16k x 16k Mapping

F1 Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologien und Managementberatung GmbH (F1) worked with VIOSO GmbH to install 15 Wings VIOSO servers and 15 AV Stumpfl Wings VIOSO software packages in Das Schloss, a shopping centre in Berlin. The software was used to control projection mapping across the 1,200m² interior ceiling of the centre, while the servers were used … Read more

Panasonic Could Sweep Five Awards at AV Awards 2016

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Panasonic has been nominated in five categories at the AV Awards 2016, including Manufacturer of the Year. The PT-FZ570 has been nominated Projector of the Year; the AF1 display for Digital Signage Product of the Year; PT-DW17K2 projectors for Live Event of the Year; and ‘Le Petit Chef’ visual mapping has been nominated for Leisure … Read more

Meizu Combines Driving on Single Chip

Meizu has introduced a new MX-series smartphone, with a powerful camera sensor, in China. The MX6 uses Sony’s Exmor RSIMX 386 sensor in its rear camera. This sensor has 1.25µm pixels and a customised six-element lens. Meizu claims that lens flare is significantly reduced. The camera uses PDAF for fast auto focus. The front camera … Read more