“Top Gear” To be in UHD
Controversial Top Gear presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, has revealed in a twitter exchange that the new version of the programme, to be produced by Amazon Prime, will be filmed and streamed in UltraHD.
Samsung Adds Outdoor Modes to Ativ 9 Pro
Samsung has a new version of its Ativ Book, the 9 Pro. The new notebook has an UltraHD 3840 x 2160 display of 15.6″ diagonal and with touch support. The processor is a 6th gen (Skylake) Core i7 processor at 2.6GHz, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD and discrete graphics in the form of an … Read more
Bell becomes Canada’s largest TV provider
Bell of Canada said that its Fibe TV service has helped it to get to 2.7 million TV customers, making it the top TV supplier for Canadian subscribers. The service is supported on the recently announced Samsung Galaxy View (Samsung’s ‘Tablet’ is so Large it Needs a Handle). Bell highlighted features of its service including … Read more
Bell becomes Canada’s largest TV provider
Bell surpasses 2.7 million total TV customers in the third quarter of 2015: Next generation Fibe TV has made Bell the #1 television choice of Canadian consumers. Canada’s best TV service keeps getting better: Enhanced Restart goes back in time, Trending shows you what Canada is watching and lets you join right inMONTRÉAL, Nov. 4, … Read more
Apple Wins Patent for Detachable Display on Notebook
Microsoft recently announced its Surface Book as a brand new idea in mobile computing and the first notebook class device that transforms from a notebook computer into a tablet by detaching the display unit as a tablet and with an additional graphic processor in the base / keyboard part. When combined, they act as a … Read more
Exploring the Potential for Printed LEDs
The range of enterprises seeking to develop and apply printed inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs) for lighting and display applications is expanding with some interesting recent developments. Rohinni with offices in Coeur d’Alene, ID, USA and Austin, TX, USA is one of the newer entrants in this emerging area. As indicated by recent patent filings … Read more
First Application of Smartglasses in an Active Healthcare Facility
We have reported in many articles how augmented reality is aiming at industrial, professional and corporate applications after the consumer products like Google Glass did not take off as hoped for by Google and others. While we typically focus on the developers of the hardware solution, the software side is as important because professional applications … Read more
$25.5M Agreed in Oregon LCD Settlement
A settlement has beeen agreed between the state of Oregon and nine LCD panel makers over the price fixing case that has been going on since 2007. The amounts are $6.97 million from LG Display; $4.5 million from Samsung; $4.25 million from AU Optronics; $1.95 million from Sharp; $1.63 million from Chi Mei; $1 million … Read more
HP Inc Gets Started
This week, Tom was away so I was in the writing chair as well as editing. Combined with a trip to an Epson event about Colour Light Output (of which, more later), and a detailed report from Chris that has meant some long days. Still, we have a lot of content this week. On the … Read more
Asahi Glass Result 29/10/2015
Asahi Glass company reported net profit for Q3 2015 at JP¥ 8.8 billion ($72.8 million), up 47% YoY, but down 70% QoQ. Turnover was flat at JP¥ $331 billion, compared to JP¥ 335 billion ($2.8 billion) in the previous year. For the nine month period, net profit was up by 407% YoY at JP¥ 42.7 … Read more
Innolux Corporation Result 29/10/2015
Innolux Corp. reported Q3 net profit of NT$ 3.48 billion ($107 million), the lowest in five quarters and less than half of the year ago quarter and an operating margin of 3.9%. Turnover was at a five year low of NT$ 88.7 billion ($2.75 billion), down 21.5% YoY.
SES result 30/10/2015
SES SA, a leading satellite communications provider, reported an decrease of 1.2% YoY in operating profit for Q3, at €216.5 million ($235 million). Turnover was reported at €493.5 million ($539 billion) up 5.5% YoY however, due to a weaker Euro, which otherwise would have caused a decline of 3.3%. For the nine month period, profit … Read more
