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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
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
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