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On the evening before the main exhibition start, Pepcom held its MobileFocus event. The big attraction for the press that evening in Barcelona was the Samsung press event and that meant a relatively low turnout of journalists at MobileFocus, at least in the earlier part of the evening before the buses from Samsung’s event arrived. … Read more
With much fanfare and waves of excitement, the year 2016 has been heralded as the long foretold “year of VR.” Each week at least one article appears in the press, creating a market energy not seen since the early days of the digital 3D revolution. Behind the scenes, just as Xpand recently created its VR … Read more
Lenovo introduced two new consumer Windows 10 PCs: YOGA 710 and 5101 convertible laptops and the ideapad MIIX 310 2-in-1 detachable tablet. We recognize consumers’ need to work on multiple devices for different tasks. For example, they may text on a smartphone, work on a laptop, and read on a tablet. That’s why we designed … Read more
Samsung today announced a series of initiatives targeting enterprise mobility, focused on security, productivity and choice. Samsung is committed to helping businesses with their mobility and productivity needs, ranging from hardware to business applications as well as creating a set of unique solutions secured by Samsung’s KNOX platform. These solutions will be available starting with … Read more
TCL, the world’s third largest television manufacturer, recently announced that after showcasing its latest 65’’ Curved QUHD TV Xclusive (X1) at CES 2016, TCL plans to further expand its presence in emerging markets to provide bigger and smarter UHD products for the consumers. As one of the most significant transformations that took place in the … Read more
Cree, Inc. records another LED industry first with the demonstration of a single high-power LED delivering nearly 1,600 lumens at 134 lumens-per-watt (LPW) with similar color quality as an incandescent light bulb. With this result, Cree achieved a breakthrough 25 percent increase in lumens per watt (LPW) over production LEDs of similar color quality under … Read more
Hundreds of technical experts are quietly finalizing the next revolution in over-the-air broadcasting, an effort that will soon enable the first Internet Protocol-based broadcast system in the world – the “next generation” TV platform currently known by its technical handle of “ATSC 3.0.” Our current ATSC 1.0 digital TV system is nearly 20 years old, … Read more
The January release of the U.S. 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP), Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, by the Office of Educational Technology is already turning heads. And I have to stop and clarify that there’s no fluff here. Past national education technology plans have been well received by U.S. … Read more
Keyssa is a new company – to me anyway – that has been developing a connection technology that is based upon the 60 GHz band. After 6 years of R&D, 150 patents and $50M in investment from companies like Intel Capital, Dolby Family Ventures and the Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center, the first product using … Read more
China’s Lilliput has developed a new 7″ camera-top monitor, with a 3G-SDI input. The Lilliput Q7 is rack-mountable and can be used to view waveform data with a picture-in-picture. It also includes time code functionality, SDI and HDMI cross conversion, columnar YRGB and other monitoring functions. Because it is intended to be used in the … Read more
SES reported full year 2015 net profit of €674 million ($741 million), a 5% YoY increase. Turnover for the same period was €2 billion ($2.2 billion), a 5% YoY increase. The Mobility segment increased 24.5% with 2 partners doubling existing capacity.
On the Sunday before the official start of the MWC show, Showstoppers held its annual “meet the vendors” event and we went along. We didn’t think that there were as many companies of interest as the later Digital Focus event, but we found some interesting people to talk to. Akyumen is a US, privately-owned company … Read more
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