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Worldwide PC shipments fell 7.7% YoY in Q3’15, Gartner’s preliminary PC results show. Desktop PCs continued to exhibit weakness, with declines in the high single digits, while mobile PCs (notebooks and premium ultramobiles) fell by low single digits. 73.7 million units were shipped through the quarter. Due to the sharp appreciation of the US dollar, … Read more
Jim L. Bauman is 3M’s new EVP in the electronics and energy business group, replacing the retiring Michael A. Kelly. Bauman is currently SVP of business transformation (Americas). He joined the company as a division engineer in 1982 and has worked in the APAC and Americas markets.
Taiwanese panel makers have released their monthly results for September. AUO‘s revenues reached NT$31.4 billion ($965.5 million), up 3% MoM but down 11.8% YoY. The company shipped around 9.5 million large-sized (TV, monitor, notebook and ‘other’) LCD panels, up 4.8% MoM. However, small-size panel shipments declined 14.3%, to 14.4 million units. Revenues at CPT dropped … Read more
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as HamletThe 12-week run of Hamlet, now ongoing at London’s Barbican Theatre, is being broadcast live, in DCI-4k resolution, to cinemas across the UK. Much as it did with War Horse (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9) – although on a larger scale – Sony Digital Cinema is undertaking the capture and … Read more
Pay-TV subscribers across 89 countries will increase by 200 million between 2014 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. There were 704 million subscribers in 2014, and are forecast to be 904 million by 2020. The world’s largest pay-TV operator is China Radio & TV, with 198 million subscribers at the end of 2014. The company … Read more
Synaptics has announced a force-sensing touch screen controller which will offer Android device developers the opportunity to add a new touch screen user interface modality. The Synaptics announcement is timely since a similar user interface capability has been implemented in the Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus which began shipping on September 25 and include … Read more
In recent news, Google was quoted by almost all publications on this planet (it seemed) as filing for a patent that involves displaying holograms in their next generation head mounted display device. There is so much wrong information floating around this patent application that we need to clarify what is real and what is not. … Read more
For a company whose entire business structure, for many years, was solely online, you would think that Google would be able to protect its domain name. Well, you would think wrong: this week Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee was able to buy the world’s most famous website, Google.com, through its own (new) domain-buying service … Read more
AOC, through a partnership with 20th Century Fox, is the official monitor partner for The Martian – the new film based on the novel by Andy Weir. AOC displays are used throughout the film, and the company and its retail partners can use exclusive material in on- and offline promotions.
HP came out of left field with a huge raft of product announcements on our print day. Unfortunately all of our points of contact within the company had attended the launch event in Barcelona, and were flying back when we called for specific information. We will update you when we know more. Notebooks were the … Read more
A few weeks ago, we got a press release from Data Modul which told us that it would be exhibiting its Conrac flight information displays at the Inter Airport Europe show in Munich this week. As we had to be in the city anyway, we decided to go along. However, it turned out that Conrac … Read more
Planar has updated its UltraRes large-format displays, which are aimed at the emerging UltraHD ecosystem. While retaining most features and specifications from previous releases, the new models also bring something new to the mix. Available in 75″ (new), 84″ and 98″ sizes, the UltraRes displays now support UltraHD playback at 60fps, via HDMI and DisplayPort … Read more
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