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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 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
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
Ever had one of those mornings? I got back from the ECR (radiology event – for medical monitors – report next week) in Vienna late last night and got up early, as is my habit, to write my editorial for the week. However, my ThinkPad PC, which has been working fine, decided to die with … Read more
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’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.
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
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 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
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
43% of organisations are using or plan to implement the internet of things in their business this year, according to a Gartner survey conducted in November (spanning North America, LATAM, EMEA and APAC). 29% of respondents are currently using the IoT, with an additional 14% planning to implement in the coming months – representing 50% … Read more
UK culture secretary John Whittingdale has said that the BBC will soon close the iPlayer ‘loophole’, and will force those watching TV online to pay a licence fee. Currently, licence holders can use the iPlayer to watch live TV, but anyone in the UK can use it for catch-up programming.
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