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OTOY/Imagination Tech Lower Ray Tracing Power Draw

Imagination Technologies has agreed a partnership with OTOY, a company specialising in graphics processing in the cloud. Imagination will integrate support for its PowerVR ray tracing technology into OTOY’s upcoming OctaneRender4 rendering engine, for VR, games and cinematic content creation. OTOY says that the OctaneRender4 software, on a PowerVR GR6500 GPU, can trace more than … Read more

Tensions in France & ITO

This morning I’m getting ready to pack up and head home after some time (mostly) relaxing in France. As I have done in previous years, I’ve included a picture out of the window from where I’m sitting. Although the state of emergency in the country was extended after the appalling attack in Nice last week, … Read more

German Pay-TV Revenues to Increase this Year

German commercial broadcasters’ association VPRT has projected that pay-TV and VoD revenues in Europe’s German-speaking countries will pass €3 billion this year. VPRT predicts that revenues will grow by between 8% and 11% this year, to reach €2.8 billion in Germany and €3 billion across the German-speaking countries. Pay-TV subscriptions increased to reach 7.4 million … Read more

UKTV Extends Contract with Ericsson

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UKTV has extended its contract with Ericsson, which covers broadcast channels and media management for on demand services. The broadcast channels includes mini-pay entertainment channel W; free-to-air channels Really, Yesterday and Home; and Gold, Alibi, Drama, Eden and Good Food. Ericsson will also handle the aggregation of VOD content to other platforms including Sky, Virgin … Read more

Innolux to Produce Flexible Sensors

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Innolux and Next Biometrics (of Norway) have announced that they are investing in establishing mass-production capacity for a new flexible fingerprint sensor technology. Next already uses Innolux’s factories to produce rigid sensors. It now aims to produce 2 million flexible sensors per month in 2017, growing to 10 million per month in 2018.

Apple Decline Constrains Whole Smartwatch Market

Q2’16 was the first time that the global smartwatch market contracted YoY, with shipments falling 32%, says IDC. Shipments reached 3.5 million units: significantly down from the 5.1 million shipped in Q2’15. Apple, shipping 1.6 million units, maintained the top rank, but was the only top-five vendor to experience an annual decline. IDC does note, … Read more