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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 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
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
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
Juniper Research has identified the top technology trends for 2016. VR headsets will have a ‘watershed’ year next year, in terms of both product launches and consumer rollouts. Several big firms, including Sony, Oculus and HTC, are investing in the space. Juniper says that the technology is poiseed to ‘transform the entertainment industry’. Juniper’s full … Read more
The CTA (formerly the CEA) held an event in New York City recently called the Innovate Conference, at which several members of the TV industry discussed the problem with UltraHD content delivery. Advances in picture quality are driving TV sales. However, major content distribution networks do not appear to be close to supporting the extra … Read more
The Mexican government is distributing 7 million STBs to low-incoming families in the country, as part of the promise to ensure that every home has access to digital TV signals. The move has boosted the proportion of the population with digital access to 75%. Analogue signals will be turned off on the 31st December. Analyst … Read more
Samsung has announced that it sold $1 billion worth of TVs in North America in October – a new company record. More than half of the company’s North American market share (35.1% in the US and 38.4% in Canada, according to the NPD Group) was made up of UltraHD TVs in Q3.
There are reports from Business Korea that Samsung Display will raise its investment in flexible OLED panel manufacturing. Specifically, the company will continue to focus on small- and mid-size OLED displays. Currently, SDC produces its flexible OLED panels at a G6 line in Tangjeong. New rumours say that the company’s L5 G5 LCD plant, in … Read more
37% of Americans – 91 million people – expect to purchase technology items or related accessories during ‘Black Friday Week’ (the Monday before Thanksgiving through the Monday after, aka Cyber Monday), says the CTA (formerly the CEA). The consumer Black Friday experience is moving away from traditional in-store deals and towards online and mobile shopping … Read more
Tech Data has put together a three-strong team dedicated to wearable technology. The members are Mike Cain (business development manager for wearables); Mica Jakins (senior category manager); and Stacey Bliss (assistant category manager). All three come from within Tech Data. They will work with the both consumer electronics and mobile teams.
HDTVTest, Leeds Trinity University and UK retailer Crampton and Moore ran a public display shootout in the UK recently. Two OLED TVs (Panasonic’s CZ950 and LG’s EF9500) were compared to Panasonic’s last (and widely considered to be the best) plasma TV, the ZT60. Each was calibrated and shown to a panel of 28 ‘AV enthusiasts’. … Read more
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