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JCDecaux Commences Digital Transformation of London Bus Shelter Network

JCDecaux SA, the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, today launches the digital transformation of the bus shelter network in London following the award by Transport for London (TfL) of the world’s largest bus shelter advertising concession. As part of its commitment to digitising the UK’s capital, JCDecaux is launching the London Digital Network (LDN) … Read more

Huawei Launches Theme of “Leading New ICT, Building a Better Connected World” at CeBIT 2016

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Huawei plans to announce its global marketing theme for its Enterprise Business Group (BG): “Leading New ICT, Building a Better Connected World” at CeBIT 2016, the world’s largest annual IT trade fair, held inHannover, Germany, from March 14 to 18, 2016. The theme defines how the leading global ICT provider is enabling enterprises to transform … Read more

NEC Collaborates on Retail Solutions

NEC was at the event sharing a booth with a company called 10 Squared, which provides fully customised display casings and enclosures and also Pixel Inspiration which develops retail applications, typically using Scala software. Demonstration monitors included a high brightness monitor and a video wall but the products were not new, as we were up … Read more

Eyevis Brings Calderdale Council to 21st Century

An Eyevis video wall has been installed in Calderdale Council’s CCTV monitoring centre in West Yorkshire in the UK. The wall is part of a £680,000 ($962,800) upgrade to the existing CCTV system, which was installed in the 1990s. Eight 47″ EYE-LCD-4700-USN-LD-FX displays are used to view images from 64 cameras, 24/7/365. They were installed … Read more

Espirit Explains Westgate Project

Espirit uses LEDs to frame and highlight the display in this totemPeter Livesey, owner of UK specialist digital signage provider, Espirit Digital, was in characteristically positive mood at the event. The company had some good looking LED, high brightness and touch displays on show. Livesey told us of a huge project that the firm completed … Read more

Retail Digital Signage Expo is Lively

On March 9th and 10th, three exhibitions aimed at the retail business were co-located in London’s Olympia exhibition hall. The UK is, famously, seen as a “nation of shopkeepers”, and this was reflected in what seemed to be quite a lively event with, apparently, quite good quality visitors. One of the events was the “Retail … Read more

Can Rubber Replace YAG in LEDs?

German and Spanish scientists have used luminescent proteins to create a pure white organic LED, at a lower cost than today’s conventional devices. The ‘BioLED’ uses proteins packaged in the form of rubber. Red, green and blue rubber layers cover a single LED, producing white light. Today’s white LEDs produce light that lacks a red … Read more

SiBeam has WiGig Reference Design

SiBeam has developed a USB 3.0 adaptor reference design, supporting the WiGig (aka IEEE 802.11ad) standard. Vendors can thus add wireless gigabit connectivity to computers. The system is designed to be interoperable with Qualcomm Atheros’ 802.11ad solution. Khurram Sheikh is the president of SiBeam and CTO of Lattice Semiconductor. He said, “The boom in applications … Read more

iPhone 7 Case Suggests No Curve

Photos that are said to be of the case for the iPhone 7 have appeared online – and, as (infamously) rumoured, it lacks a headphone jack. The Lightning connector will apparently be used to connected headphones instead. There is also no major change to the shape of the phone, although a curved display had previously … Read more

Metadata Changes Coming for HDMI 2.1

Flat Panels HD has picked up a snippet of news from a Philips whitepaper, which indicates the inclusion of dynamic metadata in HDMI 2.1. The HDMI Forum has not yet acknowledged the existence of HDMI 2.1. However, page six of Philips’ whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/jtm49ag) – published in August last year – states, “HDMI 2.0a covers HDR … Read more