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Taco Bell, the world’s largest Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain is partnering with Pioneer Digital to further enhance their digital solutions across all seven UK locations. Taco Bell is highly acclaimed for its unique and craveable menu, and Pioneer Digital is helping to visually bring their world famous crunchy tacos, burritos and quesadillas to life. … Read more
Pioneer Digital has installed new large-format LG displays at all seven of Taco Bell’s locations in the UK. A digital menu board solution was required in each of the restaurants. Pioneer chose to use five 42″ displays from LG, each with 1920 x 1080 resolution and 500 cd/m² of brightness. As with all of LG’s … Read more
Oculus Connect is a relatively new conference (only in its second year!) for the virtual reality industry and took place recently in Hollywood. VR is still very new – although it’s a long way from the first steps taken in the 1990s – and so Oculus’s chief scientist, Michael Abrash, took a very different approach … Read more
MMD’s latest Philips monitor, the 258B6QJEB, is not only designed with CAD-CAM work in mind: eco-friendliness is also important. The 25″ unit contains 65% recycled plastics, and its housing is free of both PVC and BFR. Intended for use in colour-critical applications and those that require very sharp images, the display has 2560 x 1440 … Read more
According to UBI Research, the global AMOLED market is growing quickly, with a new record level of panel shipments achieved in Q2’15. The firm says that 56 million units were shipped, representing 35% growth over Q1’15’s 41 million, and 19% over Q2’14’s 47 million. Revenues rose 65% QoQ to $2.8 billion. The world’s largest producer … Read more
Microsoft is working with Baidu to launch Windows 10 in China. Baidu will replace Bing as the operating system’s default search engine in the country. It marks a significant change from the government’s previous stance, less than a year ago, when Microsoft offices were being raided and Windows 8 was being referred to as ‘spyware’ … Read more
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world’s leading producer of semiconductor and display solutions, formally opened the doors to its new Device Solutions America headquarters here today, setting the stage for a new wave of innovation across the digital landscape. Located on the same corner in San Jose’s tech corridor where Samsung’s original campus was first … Read more
Variations in global currency exchange rates will mean that ‘all’ vertical industries will show negative growth in IT spending this year, according to Gartner. The firm predicts spending to reach $2.7 trillion: a 3.5% YoY decline. Appreciation of the US dollar (mainly against the euro, yen and ruble) has had a heavy impact on IT … Read more
HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that technology leader MediaTek has agreed to join the HEVC Advance patent pool, which provides an efficient and transparent means for accessing and licensing HEVC essential patents. MediaTek is a market leader in cutting-edge systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile and home entertainment devices, and is one of the … Read more
By now, most technology analysts, writers and bloggers have realized that Google Glass is no longer aiming at leading the charge of introducing augmented reality to the average consumer. Even with a revamped model, Google’s aim has shifted to the corporate and professional markets. What we are left with is the much anticipated Microsoft HoloLens … Read more
Facebook said that it is planning to roll out support for 360º video. Details were published on the Facebook blog here.
Facebook, in a blog post, said that it would support 360º videos in its News Feed. There are a number of publishers sharing new 360 videos on Facebook already, including Star Wars, Discovery, GoPro, LeBron James & Uninterrupted, NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and VICE. These videos help show the range of possibilities with this new … Read more
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