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Happy birthday to Windows! Microsoft launched Windows 1.0 on the 20th November, 1985 – 30 years ago. 1.0 was the company’s first attempt to present a GUI to users (it wasn’t actually an OS, requiring Microsoft’s own disk operating system to function) and, although it had a slow start, the result is now the world’s … Read more
Volvo has signed a deal with Microsoft, to jointly develop ‘next-generation’ automotive technologies. The companies have released a video (http://tinyurl.com/pwj7bbg) showing how Microsoft’s Hololens could be used as a car is being developed – for instance, to show how the sensors work, or view the car’s framework underneath the chassis. The device could also be … Read more
Samsung’s JS9500 LCD TV has won several awards over recent weeks. Popular Science has named it at the only TV in the ‘Best of What’s New’ awards. The product has also won ‘Editor’s Choice’ and ‘Best LED TV’ from Reviewed.com. The JS8500, meanwhile, has been named in CNet‘s ‘Best TVs of 2015’ and ‘Best LED … Read more
Futaba has unveiled new flexible PMOLED panels, for small devices such as wearables. The EPW1802AA is a 1.8″ greyscale PMOLED unit, with 160 x 32 resolution. It has 600 cd/m² of brightness, a 10,000:1 contrast ratio and 35ms response time, with an SPI interface. A full-colour unit has also been announced. This is a 1.4″ … Read more
Orange Spain will lower the price of its smart TVs, from the 1st December, in order to compete with rival Telefonica (Vestel Makes Deal for Free TVs with Telefonica) and boost adoption of its bundled services. The company will sell ‘unlocked’ Samsung and LG sets, between 32″ and 43″. Discounts (up to 35%) will be … Read more
Nanotech’s UltraFlix network of UltraHD content is now available on all Samsung, Vizio and 2015 Sony UltraHD TVs in North America.
Taiwan’s Economic Daily News claims that Apple will show new 13″ and 15″ Macbook Air models at WWDC 2016, next summer. The 11″ model will be discontinued, and the new editions will be thinner than any previous generation. They will be released in Q3’16, the source claims. Huawei launched a new flagship smartphone called the … Read more
The Stela PF-55H is a high-brightness 55″ public display from AG Neovo. A full-metal chassis houses the display, featuring a moveable (wheeled) stand and tempered front glass. The MVA panel installed in the unit has a 4,000:1 contrast ratio, and the screen can reach 700 cd/m² of brightness, suiting it for use in bright environments. … Read more
This year, retailers are especially aware of the popularity of large TVs on Black Friday. Both Target and Best Buy have said that their sales mix is shifting towards larger sets. 60″ – 65″ TVs are HHGregg’s fastest-growing sales category, while Sams’s Club has said that it is reducing the floor space dedicated to smaller … Read more
France’s Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) has launched an information campaign on the country’s upcoming digital transition. DTT services will be moved from MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC to purely MPEG-4 AVC. The transition will take place on the 6th April 2016.
Atheer, the company pioneering the new AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality™) computing platform today unveiled AiR Glasses, the world’s most interactive 3D smart glasses and the AiR Enterprise Suite, a cloud-based collaboration and task flow interaction solution for Fortune 1000 companies. Atheer AiR Glasses allow wearers to see critical work information right in their field-of-view and … Read more
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) continue to be hot topics in the technology industry. While VR continues to make waves in the press, AR will prove to be the bigger market in time, projected to reach approximately US$100 billion in total market worth by 2020, according to the latest market study by ABI … Read more
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