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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
This week’s issue got me thinking about developments in TV. I was particularly interested in the Sky announcement and I confess that is partly because I am a customer of Sky. Sky is incredibly good at getting UK (and increasingly German and Italian consumers) to dig deep for their TV services. Although I pay less … Read more
UniPixel, Inc., a provider of Performance Engineered Films™ to the touchscreen and flexible electronics markets, announced today the receipt of an initial mass production order from a leading PC manufacturing company based in Japan for a 10-inch tablet product. UniPixel expects the initial delivery of XTouch sensors to this new customer to occur in the … Read more
Fujitsu’s new UK sales director has said that the company needs to be “more focused” with its distribution strategy. Kevin Matthews said that Fujitsu currently has five distributors in the UK (Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Exertis, Arrows and Entatech), and may need to evaluate the lineup. He added, “[I]t’s too early to say whether we … Read more
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
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