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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
The Korean government has announced some specifics of the measures it is taking to prop up the country’s OLED industry (Korea Offers Tax Benefits as OLED Incentive). On the 11th November Yoon Sang-jick – Korea’s minister of trade, industry and energy – said that the new measures are focused around boosting exports. He announced that … Read more
Samsung Display has released a fun video, highlighting the benefits of AMOLED technology on a smartphone compared to LCD. Watch it at http://tinyurl.com/q44jbg9. Analyst Comment I was surprised (but pleased) to see the video – despite its cartoony style – go into detail on features including display structures, contrast ratio and colour gamut, which a … Read more
A report from Cheetah Mobile Security Lab claims that Android tablets are being sold online, including from large sites like Amazon, with a pre-installed trojan virus. The malware, called Cloudsota, is able to open installed apps and replace boot animations and wallpapers with adverts. Cheetah believes that more than 17,200 infected tablets have been sold … Read more
eMagin reported Q3 results with a net loss of $2.2 million, up from the net loss of $1.03 million, a widening by 115.6% YoY. Turnover for the quarter was down 11% YoY to $4.6 million from $5.1 million. Net loss for the nine month period was down however, to $2 million, from $3.7 million, whereas … Read more
The Playstation Vue TV service is now available on Amazon devices, including the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. Chromecast support will follow soon.
If you never heard of Dispelix Oy before you are not alone, this startup company is a spin off from VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland. The company offers something that the AR companies have been looking for quite some time, a thin optical lightguide. According to the press release, the new solution allows for distortion … Read more
The advent of sub-pixel rendering technologies is stirring up controversy as to the meaning of resolution in a display. Traditionally, pixel resolution has been counted as the number red, green and blue sub-pixels that are needed to create a full color pixel. But sub-pixel rendering techniques can share sub-pixels creating new ways to display pixels. … Read more
Each year during New York Digital Signage Week, NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, hosts a partner showcase and open house to highlight NEC’s technology and their partners for upcoming product offerings. This year, one of the featured products is an NEC laser illuminated projector using … Read more
Some time ago we reported on talks between Asus and Microsoft about a low cost version of the HoloLens device being developed by Asus. At that time it looked as if Asus was trying to jump on the virtual reality bandwagon. During the Q&A session in the most recent earnings report, Asus CEO Jerry Shen … Read more
Samsung Electronics today announced its five newest business monitors – the SE200, SE450, SE650, UE850 and UD970 models – have earned New Generation TCO Certified status from TCO Development, an international third-party sustainability certification provider. Now in its seventh generation, the TCO Certified program recognises products that meet a set of criteria for exceptional environmental … Read more
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