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Vuzix Experiencing Order Growth as Enterprise Customers Convert Pilot Programs to Commercial Deployments

October 29, 2015 by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that the company is seeing growing commitments for orders of M100 Smart Glasses from enterprise customers, as well as rising interest from leading technology companies in partnering with … Read more

Panasonic Emphasises Laser Cost-Savings

December 21, 2022October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

Where is 4k demand coming from in the rental market, asked Panasonic’s Hartmut Kulessa? From new applications and opportunities, he answered. Panasonic ran into the same problem as Barco (Barco is Ready for Lamp-Free Projection) when it came to developing a high-resolution projector for the rental market: there were no chips. However, the company has … Read more

Lightware Discusses 4k Distribution Challenges

October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

Lightware is a relatively new company, established in 2002, focused on visual engineering. It manufactures matrix switches, extenders and other accessories for the pro AV market. Gergely Vida is the company’s MD, and presented an interesting discussion on the challenges facing the 4k market. He broke these down in to three points: HDCP 2.2; Bandwidth … Read more

Lang Fosters Collaborative Working

October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

In the middle of the (very European) long lunch break, Lang offered tours of its new buildings. The company has been on the Lindlar industrial estate since 1998, and in the beginning the founder’s mother thought that the single building would be too big! Times have definitely changed. Lang now has a whole building dedicated … Read more

Barco is Ready for Lamp-Free Projection

December 21, 2022October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

Barco is one of Lang’s partners, supplying projectors, LFDs and infrastructure products. Alexis Skatchkoff and Abbe Westerlundh are engineers at the firm and were talking about the company’s new developments. Barco was not the first company with a 4k projector outside of the cinema market, because it didn’t feel that the technology at the time … Read more

Samsung Reveals First Profit Growth in Two Years

October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

Samsung Electronics reported a significant increase of 29% in Q3 2015 profits, to KR₩ 5.5 trillion ($4.7 billion), up from KR₩ 4.22 trillion YoY, although down from KR₩ 7.5 trillion QoQ. Turnover saw a 9% rise to KR₩ 51.68 trillion ($50 billion) from KR₩ 47.45 trillion ($40 billion) YoY. Net profit was supported by a … Read more

Lang in the Mist

October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

Lang AG is a distributor, rental & staging partner and educator in the areas of large-format displays and projectors. Operating across Europe, the company celebrated the opening of a new building – the Lang Forum – on its campus in Lindlar, Germany with an event for its reseller and supplier partners. As press, Display Monitor … Read more

Smart Watches to Trump mHealth Wearables for Integration into the $34 Billion Smart Home Market

October 29, 2015 by Isaac Oburu

The smart home market, projected to reach US$34 billion in 2020 is becoming the center of activity for multiple IoT ecosystems, including wearables. In a report from ABI Research, smart watches will drive the most interest for wearables integration into the smart home even though fitness trackers were approximately two-thirds of all wearable device shipments … Read more

Apple Watch Has 74% Smartwatch Share in Q3 2015

October 29, 2015 by Isaac Oburu

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew an impressive 510 percent annually to hit a record 6.1 million units in the third quarter of 2015. In first place with a commanding 74 percent marketshare, Apple Watch continues to catalyze demand and set the pace in the smartwatch industry. Cliff Raskind, … Read more

Ambilight No Longer Limited to Display Surfaces

October 29, 2015 by Tom Allen

MMD’s newest Philips monitor, the 275C5QHGSW, features the thin-bezel Moda design and Ambiglow Plus Base. Like Ambilight, the Plus Base version creates a halo of light synchronised with displayed content – but it is emitted from the monitor’s stand, rather than the edges of the screen. The feature can also be used as a coloured … Read more

TCL Result 27/10/2015

October 29, 2015 by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

TCL Corporation reported financial results for the first nine months at CN¥2.6 billion ($411 million). Turnover was up 7% YoY at CN¥ 74.1 billion ($11.6 billion). Chinese sales of Smart TVs and 4K TVs increased to 51.7% and 19.2%, respectively. TCL’s net profit was mainly attributable to its subsidiary, China Star Optoelectronics (CSOT), which reported … Read more

Mitsubishi Electric Result 29/10/2015

October 29, 2015 by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Mitsubishi Electric reported Q2 2016 net profit decreased by 15% YoY to JP¥ 46.6 billion ($385 million). Turnover remained almost flat at JP¥ 1 trillion ($8 billion). For the first six months of fiscal 2016, net profit decreased 5% YoY to touch JP¥ 93 billion ($769 million), in spite of a turnover increase of 5% … Read more