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Technavio Announces Top Four Emerging Trends Impacting the Global Smartwatch Market Through 2020

Technavio’s latest report on the global smartwatch market provides an analysis on the key trends expected to impact the market outlook through 2020. Technavio defines an emerging trend as a factor that has the potential to significantly impact the market and contribute to its growth or decline. The top four emerging trends driving the global … Read more

Huawei Ranks 4th among Patent Applicants in Europe

Huawei has risen to the 4th position in the ranking of companies filing patents with the European Patent Office (EPO), the office’s annual report published today has revealed. The company filed a total of 1 953 applications with the office in 2015. For the second year in a row, it topped digital communications, boasting 1 … Read more

Huawei Continues to Invest in Patents

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Huawei was the fourth-largest filer of patents with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2015, the office’s annual report has revealed. The company filed 1,953 patent applications, and topped digital communications for the second year in a row (1,197 applications). Philips, Samsung and LG led the overall patent application list, followed by Huawei, Siemens and … Read more

2015 Was ‘Last Year’ for Double-Digit Phone Growth

2015 is likely to have been the last year of double-digit smartphone growth, IDC has forecast. 2015 shipments were up 10.4% YoY, to 1.44 billion units. Although projections for 2016 are higher (1.5 billion units), this will only represent 5.7% YoY growth. This trend of single-digit growth is expected to continue through the forecast period. … Read more

LDM Product Roundup Vol 23 No 09

Asus‘ MG24UQ UltraHD monitor (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 03) will be available for sale ‘soon’. However, the company has still not shared pricing information. The WU1500 DLP projector, which Optoma introduced at IFA (Optoma With First 4k HLD Projector), is now available. Designed for large venues, the flagship installation projector has 1920 … Read more

Outstanding Group of Companies and Individuals Receive FlexTech’s FLEXI Awards

FlexTech, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, awarded five FLEXI Awards in the categories of Innovation, Research & Development, Leadership in Education, and, in a category new this year, Industry Leadership. This is the 9th year of the FLEXI Awards and the winners join a select group of companies and individuals from past years. Judging was … Read more

Spectral Edge Brings Eyeteq to London

Spectral Edge’s Eyeteg technology (Spectral Edge’s HDMI Adapter Compensates for Colour Blindness) will be demonstrated at the Connected TV Summit, running on the 16th and 17th March in London. Eyeteq, a colour vision deficiency compensation system, will be shown on both an ARM set-top box and an HLS server.

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 10

At the Radiodays Europe 2016 conference in Paris, LG said that the Stylus 2 smartphone (LG Differentiates With Friends) will feature a DAB+ radio – the world’s first smartphone to do so. DAB+ can be used to access more radio channels and by broadcasters to create tailored apps. Chinese company Meizu used MWC 2016 as … Read more

Flextech Hosts Ninth Flexi Awards

The FlexTech Alliance has given out five Flexi Awards, in the categories of Innovation; R&D; Leadership in Education; and, a new category, Industry Leadership. It is the ninth year of Flexi Awards. The Innovation Award went to two companies: one in manufacturing (Sensor Films Inc., for its Starlight Digital Manufacturing Platform) and one in consumer … Read more

Ingram Micro Appoints New UK Heads

Ingram Micro UK has appointed Gemma Glen as head of B2B sales. She has worked at the firm for 10 years, in various commercial roles – most recently as head of the print category. Matt Bramwell has been appointed as head of mobility sales; he has worked in distribution and reseller sales roles in the … Read more

SDC to Double Flexible OLED Capacity

Business Korea claims that Samsung Display will double the capacity of its A3 line, which is used to produce flexible OLEDs, to 30,000 substrates per month. According to the source, SDC has placed KRW400 billion- ($333.2 million) worth of orders for new equipment with 10 different vendors. SDC hopes that the new capacity will be … Read more