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Online Shoppers Compete With In-Store on Black Friday

The CTA (formerly CEA) estimated that 56.9 million American adults (45% of all shoppers) bought or planned to buy technology products over the Thanksgiving shopping week (from the 23rd – 30th November). A new report by the CTA found that online and mobile shopping continued to grow in importance this year. The number of people … Read more

Tobii Pushes Eye Tracking for Advertising

Tobii has announced a large-scale eye tracking survey panel in Sweden. Attention data will be continuously collected from 1,000 eye trackers in households around the country, attached to laptops and PCs. The data will be used to evaluate digital advertising for publishers and brands. Tobii will launch the panel in Q1’16, for Adssets.

Imagination Takes 2015 Elektra Awards

Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination Technologies, has been honoured with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards. At the same event, in London on the 24th November, Imagination won the Educational Support Award 2015, for its MIPSfpga programme.

Spanish Subsidies Were Illegal, Says EU Court

The European General Court has upheld a 2013 decision by the European Commission, which declared Spanish DTT subsidies illegal (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 42). Several DTT network operators in the country received funding from the government, to provide digital TV access to rural areas, in 2005. However, the EC declared that the allocation of … Read more

Soluble OLEDs Closing on Evaporation Efficiency

Merck has revealed the development results of its red and green solution-processed phosphorescent OLED materials. Results were compared to evaporation material performance from Universal Display Corp. (UDC). Merck shared the results at the OLED World Summit this month, and used data from UDC’s website. Merck’s red material had an efficiency of 19.1 candelas per Amp … Read more

LG Begins Annual Reshuffle

LG has shared plans for its changes in top-level appointments, which will begin on the 1st December. Juno ChoJuno Cho will replace Park Jong-seok as president and CEO of LG Mobile Communications. Cho is currently president and COO of LG Corporation, and previously led LG’s mobile business strategy, as well as sales and marketing, for … Read more

Good, Better, Best: The Research Chase

Downloading Research

One of first questions people ask me about 3D (and sometimes VR and even HD visualization technologies) is about its instructional effectiveness, based on available research. “What is the difference some of these technologies make in learning?” “How effective are these technologies with young learners?” they ask. Of course, a clarifying reaction is “What kind … Read more