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Eyefluence Knows When You’re Bored in VR

A company called Eyefluence has developed software that can tell if someone becomes bored while using VR content. The software tracks eye movement while the user is ‘in’ the virtual environment. It is able to tell what the person is or is not interested in. Eyefluence hopes to use this to improve virtual storytelling and … Read more

Bob Mansfield Heading Apple Car Project

Bob Mansfield, a former executive at Apple, has been appointed to oversee its nascent car project, sources have told the Wall Street Journal. Mansfield joined Apple in 1999 and was an executive under Steve Jobs, but stepped back from the role and became an adviser to the company in 2013. Since then, he was worked … Read more

Telekom Austria Increases Subscriber Base

Telekom Austria recorded growth in Q2’16. Total subscribers at the end of June were 470,900, up from 466,600 in Q1. In Croatia, subscribers grew from 194,300 to 196,900. Slovenian subscribers were up from 42,600 to 48,200. In Macedonia, the company recorded a decrease from 126,300 to 124,600. The company recorded an increase in subscribers at … Read more

Sony Transitioning Towards Micro LED TV

At CES, Sony announced a new TV, which included Backlight Master Drive, a technique, which improves contrast ratio and minimizes the effects of dimming on high brightness portions of images and it has now launched the product, as the ZD9 family. The design includes a significant increase in the number of LEDs, and narrows the … Read more

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