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Atlona has promoted Garth Lobban to director of marketing. Lobban joined the company in December last year, as a senior marketing manager. He will now oversee all aspects of Atlona’s marketing department.
US-based TouchTurns said that it has developed flexible and 3D-formable capacitive touchscreen sensors. They are designed for use in consumer and business products, replacing traditional buttons with flexible, foldable or rollable touchscreen interfaces, or ones that are rigid but three-dimensional.
Microsoft will change the way that it reports its financial results, starting with its Q1 2016 fiscal year results. These will be issued on the 22nd October. The change was implemented to reflect Microsoft’s new strategy and ambitions in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world. Operating revenue and incoming results will now be published based on three … Read more
The friction between HP and Autonomy – the UK company that it acquired in 2011 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 33) have been well-documented. HP accused Autonomy of lying about its finances, more than a year after the acquisition (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 47), and has alleged that the former CEO and finance director … Read more
LG has released its first-ever notebook in the US market – and it’s lighter than the Macbook Air, at 980g (compared to 1.1kg). Three models have been released: the Gram 13 (13.3″) and two editions of the Gram 14 (14″). The body is built using carbon-lithium and carbon-magnesium – which, LG notes, is also used … Read more
Dell has revealed three new monitors in its Ultrasharp line, which focuses on high resolution and accurate colour. All three models – the 31.5″ UP3216Q, 27″ UP2716D and 25″ UP2516D – support the DCI P3 colour gamut. As well as 87% of DCI P3, the UP3216Q covers 99.5% of Adobe RGB, 100% of sRGB and … Read more
Samsung will close its ‘Milk Video’ service in November – one year after launching it. The company has had little luck with VoD platforms, closing Samsung Video Hub in mid-2014, after a failed attempt to compete with iTunes.
Central Glass, a Japanese firm, has developed a way to deliver sharp projected images on windows. The company creates glass that can serve as a projection screen, by baking diamond particles into the surface. These particles are processed by another Japanese firm called Vision Development. Because diamond has a high ability to refract light, images … Read more
Aiptek has signed a mobile projection agreement with Tech Data in Germany. Tech Data will take on Aiptek’s pico projectors and dashcams.
Pebble has continued to expand its device lineup, creating the Pebble Time Round – its first circular smartwatch. Using a 64-bit electrophoretic display (with LED frontlight), the watch’s battery will last up to two days – but 15 minutes of charging will see it last a full day, says Pebble. The watch is splash-resistant, rather … Read more
After showing them at Infocomm 2015, Christie has launched three new large-format UltraHD displays: the 55″ FHQ552-T, 84″ FHQ842-T and 98″ FHQ981-L. Both the 55″ and 84″ displays feature 10-point IR touch and are compatible with Christie’s Brio multi-site presentation and collaboration solution. The 98″ is not touch-enabled, but is able to run 24/7. The … Read more
Fossil has announced three new wearables at New York Fashion Week, under the collective name ‘Fossil Q’. The devices are: a connected bracelet; a ‘watch’ with no display; and a smartwatch running Android Wear. Each can act as a fitness tracker, and will be available before the end of the year.
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