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Last year, one of the most impressive demos that we got was at Rovi when the firm showed us its natural language user interface tool. The system was good at understanding the context and likely meaning of requests. This year, the company has added Spanish to English as a supported language and there have been … Read more
Audi has shown off a concept car at the Frankfurt International Motor Show, which makes great use of OLEDs. The E-tron Quattro is an electric vehicle with a range of more than 300 miles. Not only the internal displays, but the head- and taillights are built with OLED technology. There are nine OLED lighting panels … Read more
LG Display is still on target to develop 60″, UltraHD, flexible and rollable transparent panels by 2017, the company has said – which it is working on as part of Korea’s Future Flagship Programme (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 27). Our only update since then came in February 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 8), … Read more
A leak on Chinese social network Weibo – from a source that has been correct on Samsung stories in the past – claims that Samsung will launch its ‘Project Valley’ smartphone (Rumour: Project Valley is Samsung’s Foldable Phone) in January. The source says that the phone is being tested with Snapdragon 620 and 820 chips. … Read more
Qualcomm has announced the third-generation of its Quick Charge technology, which will be able to charge an average phone from 0% to 80% in 35 minutes. It is said to be almost 40% more efficient than Quick Charge 2.0, thanks to Qualcomm’s Intelligent Negotiation for Optimum Voltage algorithm. The technology is expected to appear in … Read more
Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Sign MOU) has been approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). With the clearance from CFIUS and the Department of Justice (US DoJ Approves Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent Merger), the companies have received all of the regulatory approvals required for the transaction in the USA. Nokia … Read more
Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, has said that the company will need to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs in its process of splitting (HP to Split into Two Companies) – equal to about 10% of the current workforce. Whitman will become the CEO of HP Enterprise in November, which will have responsibility for servers, … Read more
The Chinese-language Liberty Times claimed that Mediatek was aiming to acquire Parade Technologies, earlier this month. Mediatek has now dismissed the article in a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Quanta has received more than 70% of HP’s AIO PC orders for 2016, say sources in the Asian supply chain. The company also produces many of Apple’s iMacs. Meanwhile, Dell’s AIO PC orders are said to be split half-and-half between Compal and Pegatron.
Sharp will begin selling an 8k TV in October this year – the first-such model to be made commercially available. Known as the LV-85001, the unit will be an 85″ set costing ¥15.2 million ($125,700) ex VAT. Sharp is targeting the TV at broadcasters and other groups involved in testing the 8k format, rather than … Read more
Earlier this year, Renesas announced their RH850 microcontroller series aimed at automotive applications. The system on the chip supports instrument clusters and also includes a warp engine for a head-up display (HUD). Now Luxoft (a Swiss based software developer) has announced a partnership with Renesas that bundles their Luxoft’s Populus™ Suite human-machine interface (HMI) design … Read more
Casio America, Inc. proudly celebrates the launch of the S Series Heathered collection at Spring Summer 2016 New York Fashion Week. The new S Series Heathered collection comes in 4 color ways, purple, orange, white and yellow, each inspired by heathered pattern sportswear. Each timepiece features the interwoven speckled pattern of a sporty heathered top … Read more
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