Nokia Wins Alcatel-Lucent
Nokia has taken control of Alcatel-Lucent through its share purchase offer and now holds nearly 80% of the company. This will add to Nokia’s capabilities and capacity in network deployment.
MediaTek Boosts Big & Small Chips
MediaTek has announced the MT2523 series of chips for wearables, smart home applications and the MT8581 SoC for UltraHD Blu-ray players. The MT2523 is claimed to be the first system-in-package (SiP) to offer GPS, dual-mode Bluetooth Low Energy, and a MIPI-supported high-resolution mobile screen. The higher level of integration enables a PCB area that is … Read more
TCL Chooses Nanosys
TCL continues to grow, said North American VP Chris Larson at the company’s press conference. TCL was the largest TV exporter in China in 2015, for the seventh year in a row, and is the only vertically-integrated TV company in China. TCL owns the China Star (CSOT) brand, and opened the second phase of a … Read more
TWC Adds Video Subscribers
Time Warner Cable reported that it added new 32,000 video customers in 2015 – the first time in nine years that a year has ended with an uptick in video subscribers.
The Perception of Motorcycle HUDs May be About to Change
New motorcycle Head-up Display (HUD) technology has just been introduced at CES that may indeed begin to change the perception of the utility of such devices. Driving this is new waveguide display technology from DigiLens that was debuted in a motorcycle helmet from BMW. BMW plans to commercialize the wide field of view device in … Read more
Peerless-AV names EMEA business development manager
AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV today announced the appointment of Tom Fenton as Business Development Manager, EMEA. Working alongside the UK and Export Sales Teams, Tom will be responsible for growing new business opportunities across all regions. Tom joins Peerless-AV from one of the major Global LFD brands where he held various business development and product … Read more
Acer refines videoconferencing experience with new Chromebox
Acer has announced the new Chromebox for meetings CXV2, a total solution for videoconferencing including hardware, software, and support all in one box. Booting up in about 8 seconds and supporting up to 15 conference participants across various devices, the solution is easy to set up and manage, with 24/7 technical support included. The new … Read more
Samsung Electronics Introduces Advanced Smart TV User Experience
Samsung Electronics unveiled a new Samsung Smart TV user experience with the refreshed ‘Smart Hub’ user interface and new Samsung Smart Control remote. These Smart TV enhancements provide consumers with easy access to all their favorite content, all in one place and with a single remote control. “The world of TV is constantly changing, with … Read more
Lenovo Unveils Pioneering Modular ThinkPad X1 Tablet
Lenovo today unveiled its newly expanded and highly innovative X1 portfolio. Designed for forward thinkers, the series includes new additions such as the brilliantly adaptable ThinkPad X1 Tablet with its unique modular design; the immersive ThinkPad X1 Yoga with world’s first OLED display; and the award-winning ThinkPad X1 Carbon is even thinner and lighter, strengthening … Read more
SMI’s High-Speed Eye Tracking Enables ‘Realistic VR’
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) says it has showed a system to lower the requirements of virtual reality processing. Using the ‘foveated rendering’ technique, VR performance can be between two and four times higher than is possible today, said SMI OEM director Christian Villwock. Using foveated rendering, resolution of an image can be made highest where the … Read more
Acer is Massively Mobile
Acer is never an official part of CES. Instead, the company just ‘happens’ to have a suite in a hotel somewhere in Las Vegas in early January! Isn’t it weird how these coincidences just pile up? The first product that we got updates on was the Liquid Jade Primo, which was introduced as a prototype … Read more
Ultrahaptics is Coming This Year
We have covered Bristol-based Ultrahaptics before, in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 23). The company has just completed a Series A funding round, which raised £10.1 million ($14.6 million), and says that its technology will be rolled out in products starting this year. ‘Haptics’, in the CE space, commonly refers to touch feedback that … Read more
