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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/znpj7c/chinese) has announced the addition of the “Chinese Smartphone Market Development, 4Q 2015” report to their offering. As of the third quarter of 2015, the number of China’s mobile phone subscribers topped 1.3 billion, with the adoption of 3G/4G services reaching 57.6%. There were 102.6 million smartphones shipped in the quarter. When … Read more
Today, Colorado-headquartered DISH Network announced plans to open a software development office in downtown Denver and expects to add up to 100 new technology jobs at the location. The initiative is part of DISH’s expansion of its in-house software development capacity to support its products and services including the award-winning Hopper DVR platform and Sling … Read more
Toshiba Europe GmbH is pleased to announce a partnership in conjunction with M4B S.A, a leading digital signage supplier, for AmRest,the largest independent chain restaurant operator in Central and Eastern Europe. This partnership will provide AmRest’s KFC business with easy-to-manage and engaging digital menu boards which will replace its current print menus. Taking over two … Read more
ISE 2016 was a special year for Barco of Belgium, as it marked five years of the HDX projector line – the company’s most popular projector series. There was certainly a celebratory mood in the air, assisted by regular infusions of cake! A new addition to the HDX products was being shown off-stand: the HDX-4K20 … Read more
The Lighting Japan 2016 conference was held in mid-January, where Sumitomo and Merck revealed the specifications of their soluble OLED materials. Compared to Universal Display’s evaporable materials, efficacy and lifetime are lower for the soluble red materials, and lifetime is lower for the soluble green materials. However, efficacy for green soluble/evaporable materials is largely identical. … Read more
British astronaut Major Tim Peake enjoyed live coverage of the Scotland v England Six Nations rugby match on the 6th February – in the International Space Station. Philip Bernie, Head of TV Sport for the BBC said that they always try to push the boundaries of broadcasting at the BBC and are glad Peake was … Read more
Philips had a positive presence at ISE and we started by looking at a new desktop monitor. The new 275P4VYKEB is a 27″ unit with 5120 x 2880 resolution. Philips is the third vendor after HP and Dell to launch a product at this resolution. The monitor has a glare screen, as users of this … Read more
The accounting controversy that rocked Toshiba last year (Toshiba CEO Resigns Over Accounting Scandal) is still plaguing the firm, which has forecast its largest-ever loss for this fiscal year (ending in March): ¥710 billion ($6 billion). This is even higher than the previous forecast of ¥550 billion ($4.5 billion) (Toshiba Forecasts Record Loss). Toshiba has … Read more
Innolux’s president, Wang Jyh-chau, has said that the company expects its LCD panel shipments and ASPs to fall QoQ in Q1’16. Because of this, continued operating losses are forecast for the corresponding business operations. Total area of large-size panels to be shipped in Q1 is expected to fall by almost 10% QoQ, with ASPs declining … Read more
PSCo will start distributing Samsung’s portfolio of LED displays in the UK and Ireland. The company has already placed an order for Samsung’s 1.5mm LED product.
The Japan based Nagase is announcing a collaboration with Inkron, a Finnish high tech material company, for novel optical materials based on “Inkron’s Optical Coating (IOC) products of photo-patternable dielectric and light control materials. These materials allow unique optical properties as well as excellent processing suitability for OLED and on-cell touch sensors can be implemented. … Read more
To promote National TV Safety Day in the USA, which was held on the 6th February, the CTA and Safe Kids Worldwide released a worrying statistic: a child in the US dies every three weeks from a TV tipping over. About half (47%) of such accidents happen in a bedroom. CRT TVs were identified as … Read more
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