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Ultraslim convertible and detachable products enjoyed significant growth in the Q1’16 PC and tablet market in Western Europe, says IDC. These products took 18.4% of total consumer PC and tablet shipments and 21.9% of commercial shipments (from 9.2% and 16.3%, respectively, in Q1’15). YoY growth stood at 44.1%. Significantly, the Western Europe PC and tablet … Read more
Samsung, working with Igel, has expanded its thin client monitor line, releasing a new unit in two sizes. The TC2x2L line (21.5″ TC222L and 23.5″ TC242L) run Linux and use Igel’s Universal Management Suite 5 platform. This can be used to automatically apply configuration adjustments to all thin clients throughout a company. Embedded Igel software … Read more
Following the failure of takeover talks earlier this year (ASE Fails in SPIL Bid), Advanced Semiconductor Engineering and Siliconware Precision Industries are discussing the possibility of forming an industrial holding company. Both companies have made separate filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange. ASE says that it has talked to SPIL and opinions have been exchanged … Read more
Canatu’s 23 µm CNB™ Flex Film has already been breaking records as one of the thinnest conductive transparent films in the market. Canatu is now taking thinness and flexibility one step further, introducing a new ultra-thin 12 µm film. The new 12 µm CNB™ Flex film is made with the unique Carbon NanoBud® material which … Read more
Vivitek has expanded the D3000 range of DLP projectors with a new model for the corporate and education market. The DH3331 features a DICOM Simulation mode and compatibility with Vivitek’s NovoPRO wireless collaboration solution. Flexible installation is possible with the DH3331, which has a 1.7x optical zoom; -13.5%/+28.7% vertical and +/-10.3% horizontal lens shift; and … Read more
Christie says that it has claimed the top spot in the indoor video wall market, providing its Velvet LED tiles to the world’s largest such display. The Westgate Las Vegas resort is now using 1,640 Christie tiles (2.5mm pixel pitch) in a 409m² wall, which is being used to keep guests informed about the live … Read more
Steljes, the distributor of brands including Epson and BenQ, has gone into administration. The company told CRN that it has been unable to service its overheads, following its separation from Smart (VividTouch from Steljes Makes a Big Impact). “The administration was a required consequence of the business failing to meet the profit it needed to … Read more
Jon Peddie Research states that the add-in graphics board (AIB) market increased in Q1’16, despite the overall PC market falling. AIBs, more commonly called graphics cards, carry discrete GPUs, and are used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers and other devices such as scientific instruments. They are either sold directly to consumers or installed in the … Read more
Graham Mills was the next speaker; he is the co-founder and chair of Personal Media Platforms. This is a collaborative project, with three key goals. It hopes to enable the personal media industry to: Meet the growth in consumer demand for media content at an affordable cost; Deliver a user experience that will delight consumers; … Read more
The second panel of the day was called ‘What happens next in the UK TV market?’ It was moderated by Ed Corn, an associate director at MTM. Speakers were Sascha Prueter (head of Android TV at Google); Richard Halton (CEO of YouView); Stuart Savage (director of innovation in digital TV R&D at LG); and Sylvain … Read more
It’s the early hours of the morning and the jetlag has kicked in, so I thought I might as well get up and tell you some of the highlights of the SID Business Conference, yesterday in San Francisco. There were a number of points that caught my attention. First, there was a session led by … Read more
HP spin-off Leia, whom we have been covering since early 2015, has signed a deal with Altice to bring holographic smartphones to customers by the end of 2017. Leia’s ‘Holographic Reality’ platform will be combined with Altice’s content and assets to create new digital experiences. Altice says that it will distribute the phone to customers … Read more
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