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An Amazon email, sent to marketplace sellers, has revealed that the retailer will soon stop selling the Apple TV and Google Chromecast. The message said that the decision was taken because these devices do not ‘interact well’ with its own Prime Video streaming service. No new listings for the products will be allowed, and existing … Read more
There are many applications in which the availability of a touchscreen greatly enhances a user’s ability to interact with program content. None-the-less, the smooth surface of a touchscreen makes it less suited for use in conjunction with some tasks such as those in which the user’s eyes are occupied away from the display. To address … Read more
According to news on a Russian website, Microsoft will give away a virtual reality viewer named Microsoft VR Kit at a Moscow hackathon in October of this year. The VR Kit is similar to the Google Cardboard and acts as a virtual viewer by allowing the user to strap their Smartphones in front of their … Read more
Besides the number of big names jumping into the augmented and virtual reality markets, market success has been very limited. Virtual reality has been more of a future thing than a business success today. The biggest name in it all is, of course, Facebook with its subsidiary Oculus aiming at revolutionizing the gaming industry and … Read more
InFocus has appointed Mark Housley, a member of the board since 2009, as the company’s new CEO. Housley will continue to hold his board seat while serving concurrently as CEO. He has previously served as CEO in a number of companies, including Vigilent, Radius and Glimmerglass; he also served on the board of Portrait Displays … Read more
A Swedish entrepreneur, Jonathon Gustafsson, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a ‘no compromises’ smartphone to the market. The ‘Symetium’ looks like a traditional smartphone. However, it’s real intent is “[to] remove the line between mobile and desktop devices”. The design brief was to create a product with the same level of performance as … Read more
Sweden based Symetium, has been focused on creating the perfect phone for more than 3 years. What started as a passion project for young Entrepreneur, Jonathan Gustafsson, has quickly turned into a global social media effort to bring the no compromise smartphone PC to market. ?Gustafsson has worked diligently to bring the initial design together … Read more
The Korean Information Display Society (KIDS) is compiling a “Display Expert Database” as part of its Expert Mapping Project (EMP). To register contact Ms Jung-ran Shin at [email protected] (the url the group sent didn’t seem to work!)
It is widely agreed that if OLED is to be truly cost-competitive with LCD for television applications, the OLED materials must be printed instead of being deposited by vacuum thermal evaporation as they are today. That means not only that the OLED materials must be reformulated to retain their characteristics in soluble form, but also … Read more
In a timely call-back to the Volkswagen emissions scandal, independent lab testers have accused Samsung of implementing a similar system on its TVs in Europe. The unpublished tests were performed by an EU-funded group called ComplianTV. They recorded energy consumption rates that were ‘significantly higher’ in real-world situations than in official test conditions. Samsung TVs … Read more
Fnac, the French electronics and music retailer, has made a bid for UK-listed rival Darty. The French company made a bid of £1.01 per share – valuing the company at £533 million ($807.7 million). Darty said in a statement that it would consider ‘explore the benefits’ of a merger. The company is Europe’s third-largest electrical … Read more
At the same time as it introduced the V10 smartphone (LG Goes Dual-Screen, Dual-Camera for Content Creation), LG showed a preview of the second generation of its Watch Urbane (Wearables and Smartphones Are The Focus for LG). Claiming the highest resolution of any smartwatch currently on the market, the new Watch Urbane features a 1.38″ … Read more
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