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A ‘leading PC manufacturer’ from Japan has placed an initial mass production order with UniPixel, for the company’s XTouch touchscreen sensors. The sensors will be used in a 10″ tablet. Initial delivery is expected to take place in Q4’15 and Q1’16.
Apple Daily, a Chinese source, says that Apple is seeking a second OEM to assemble the second-generation Apple Watch. The company is apparently talking to Foxconn, Inventec and Wistron, who would join current manufacturer Quanta. Quanta’s profit from the Watch has been lower than expected, says the report, which is a concern for potential new … Read more
Userful has posted a video about video walls management. As well as the initial set up, the video explores management, control, video over IP, digital signage and more – using Userful’s drag-and-drop browser-based GUI. Watch it at http://tinyurl.com/q64cxbu.
Left-to-right: Wi Sung-ho, CEO of Shinhan Card; Juno Cho, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Company and Kim Duk-soo, CEO of KB Kookmin CardLG has launched its own mobile payment service, to compete with Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. The originally-named LG Pay is the result of work with two Korean credit card companies … Read more
Korea’s Digital Times says that LG Display plans to invest $4.2 billion in new OLED facilities, to meet expected market demand from 2017 onwards. The new ‘P10’ fab will be located in Paju, South Korea. Discussions will be held later this month to finalise the decision, as well as to decide the exact substrate size … Read more
Nintendo’s proposed ‘Pokémon Go’ game is a perfect example of mobile AR. ABI Research has forecast that augmented reality will prove to be a larger market than virtual reality in time. The firm projects that the AR market will be worth $100 billion by 2020. A new report (http://tinyurl.com/pb64h6k) predicts that 21 million smart glass … Read more
We have more specifications of the upcoming SkyQ Silver box from Sky (SkyQ Will be Sky’s First UltraHD STB). This is the premium version of the STB. It will feature HDMI-out (x2), HDMI-in, USB (x2) and RJ45 ports. The box will run on 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks concurrently, and will feature a 2TB HDD. Although … Read more
Roku has secured new UltraHD content for its Roku 4 box (Roku Goes 4k With Fourth Gen), from several sources. These include Smithsonian Earth (also on Apple TV, but only in UltraHD on Roku); The CW’s Seed comedy network; and a premium channel, also from The CW, called Encore Play.
Stream TV Networks, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is partnering with CAN Tech Co. LTD to make its live programming and extensive content library available in Glasses-Free 3D for the first time. The move, which underscores Stream TV’s commitment to the China market, will result in programming converted or created in Stream TV’s … Read more
The roll-out of new Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and players is not going to make it for the Christmas season, despite industry efforts to do so. Nevertheless, we expect plenty of content and player announcements at CES in January. But it is likely to be more like Q2’16 before players and discs are available on … Read more
Quantum Dots (QD) are one of the topics for display technology that rival the excitement over OLED technology by offering an alternative path to providing a better image. In general, I am not saying that all QD displays are better than any other display technology, but they promise to create a path to a wider … Read more
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