Nokia Names New Head of Europe
As part of the planned merger with Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia has named Markus Borchet as the new head of Europe for the company. Borchet is currently SVP of the European market at Nokia Networks.
Norautron Acquires Hatteland Display
Norway’s Norautron Group is to acquire 100% of Hatteland Display from Herkules Capital. Norautron is an EMS provider and Hatteland manufactures maritime displays and computers. Including Hatteland Display, Norautron will have an estimated annual turnover of NOK1.8 billion ($207.5 million). The management teams of both companies will work together to establish a platform for continued … Read more
Latest iPad Displays Unrivaled in Daylight Performance
Apple’s newest crop of tablets including the iPad Mini4, iPad Air2 and brand new flagship tablet from Apple, the iPad Pro gained “unrivaled record holder” performance status in ambient light conditions, mostly due to their “significantly lower” reflectance numbers when compared to rival tablets currently shipping in the industry. This, according to Dr. Ray Soneira … Read more
Philips LED Screen Used in Leeds
SIS Digital has installed a 3.6m x 6.6m Philips ‘Showall’ LED display in the UK city of Leeds. Situated at The Pinnacle on Bond Street, the screen has a 10mm pixel pitch and 5,500 cd/m² of brightness. Wireless and NFC technologies are built in. Analyst Comment We were under the impression that Philips had left … Read more
BrightSign Players Used in Turkish Project
BrightSign players have been used in a large-scale network rollout of almost 400 screens in Turkey. Linova Digital Medya Teknolojileri built the network for Shell garage forecourts. BrightSign’s Network Enterprise Edition player was chosen due to its security and reliability. Over the next 12 months, the Shell TV Network will expand to 1,000 stores across … Read more
School Boy develops smartglasses prototype
If you think that augmented reality glasses are some kind of technology for the future, think again. Recently a 13 year old boy, Jordan Fung from Hong Kong announced a homemade version of a head mounted display based on an Arduino Nano board. Source: Jordan’s Tech Show (YouTube Video) Arduino is an electronics platform for … Read more
Tveon Claims Perseus-Beating Bit-Rates
A Canadian company known as Tveon claims to have an encoding technology that beats even the impressive bit-rates of V-Nova’s Perseus (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). Having been operating in ‘stealth mode’ for the last three years, CEO Scott Hayward says that it was time to show Tveon’s technology to the world, because rivals … Read more
DTG and German TV Platform Collaborate on UHD Plugfests
The DTG UK UHD Forum and German TV Platform are working together to test UltraHD TVs, receivers, content and connectivity as new services are developed. The first of a series of joint plugfests will be held on the 8th and 9th December in Berlin; it will examine the delivery and support of HDR UltraHD. Future … Read more
The Horizon Report: Ed Tech Roadblocks
This summer the New Media Consortium (NMC), together with the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), released their international K12 Horizon Report. The full report can be accessed here. The following chart helps lay out the big ideas in this report. In my first article in this series, Dissecting the 2015 K12 Horizon Report, I outlined … Read more
Samsung Electronics and AccorHotels Group Announce Strategic Partnership
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and AccorHotels Group, the world’s leading hotel operator, announced today a partnership to roll out Samsung’s SMART Hospitality Display technology across AccorHotels’ properties spanning 92 countries. “We are excited to partner with AccorHotels to transform the hotel experience and provide our innovative hospitality solutions to even more global consumers,” said Seog-gi … Read more
Digital Projection’s Ultra-bright INSIGHT 4K Dual-LED Projector Wins Industry’s Biggest Award
Emmy® Award-winning manufacturer Digital Projection International’s (DPI) INSIGHT 4K Dual-LED stood alone as the only projector to win a ‘Best New Product’ award at the recent CEDIA Expo in Dallas, Texas. Per the CEDIA website, “The winning products were selected by a panel of home technology professional judges and were selected for the innovation they … Read more
Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2016
As 2015 draws to a close Juniper Research has drawn up a list of predictions for the coming year, all neatly wrapped up as the top trends for the technologies industries for 2016. A free report detailing the findings is available to download from the Juniper website today. 2016 – A Watershed Year for Virtual … Read more
