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Canon held their special EXPO in the Javits Center in New York last week. Over 9,000 people attended the cavernous exhibit. There were so many different aspects of Canon on display, it was a real tour de force. The event is held once every five years and is a showcase for current and future products … Read more
IBC closed with record attendance of 55,128 delegates and 1,800 companies. There were 250 speakers in many sessions, panels and keynotes and the exhibition seems to be on a positive curve. (although we found that signage and wayfinding wasn’t very good on the show floor, only offset by quite a clever app that could help … Read more
Despite Sky Deutschland initially recommending that its shareholders reject the deal, the company has now been fully acquired by BSkyB (‘Sky’) (EU Approves BSkyB Deal). Sky completed its buyout of Sky Deutschland’s remaining shares (approximately 4%) on the 15th September. The company is now due to be delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Sky … Read more
AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV® has signed a distribution agreement with FollowMe® GmbH. With immediate effect, the specialist distributor is able to offer the 42?, 47? and 55? Xtreme™ fully-sealed Outdoor Displays from Peerless-AV to resellers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With FollowMe as a partner, Peerless-AV demonstrates its commitment to channel expansion in Europe. The … Read more
Peerless-AV has taken on FollowMe GmbH as a distributor in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. FollowMe will offer Peerless-AV’s 42″, 47″ and 55″ ‘Xtreme’ outdoor displays to its customers.
Regular readers might know that I quite enjoy my gaming. I’ve spent many nights on my PC, crossing gaps, beating down baddies and using improbably well-placed solutions to solve puzzles. At the end of a recent session, I had a pop-up appear from Steam, asking me to take part in a short survey. Steam, of … Read more
Mediatek’s premium new Helio X10 chipset is being used to drive BLU Products’ BLU Pure XL smartphone. It is the first US phone to use the 2GHz, 64-bit octa-core chipset. The Pure XL is a 4G phone with a 6″ AMOLED display (2560 x 1440), protected by Gorilla Glass 3. Power is managed by CorePilot, … Read more
More than 100 exhibitors have already been confirmed for the next CES Asia show, which will run from the 11th – 13th May 2016 in Shanghai. The current line-up of companies has already exceeded the size of the original show floor, necessitating a doubling in size: from two halls to four. Floor space will be … Read more
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today issued a call for entries for its CES 2016 Innovation Awards. Award entries will be accepted August 10 through September 16, 2015. The 2016 Best of Innovation Awards Honorees will be announced November 10, 2015, at CES Unveiled New York and showcased at CES® 2016 which will run January … Read more
Less than a week after showing the headset at IFA 2015, Sony has renamed its Project Morpheus VR device. At a press conference ahead of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced that the product would be known by the more-boring-but-descriptive name of ‘Playstation VR’.
In a new whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/nhox467), Juniper Research has predicted that 30 million virtual reality headsets will be shipped by 2020. Film and gaming applications will drive adoption; while adult video is a potentially large market, Juniper writes that ‘Porn industry representatives believe that VR is still very much in its development stage and will not … Read more
New findings from leading hi-tech analysts, Juniper Research, reveal that wearable VR HMD (Head Mounted Display) headset shipments will approach 30 million globally by 2020, compared to just over 3 million in 2016. Juniper Research observes that with technological advancements such as low latency and smarter graphics, coupled with the corresponding growth in interest from … Read more
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