subscribe

Google Spins Off Niantic Labs

Google is spinning off its Niantic Labs activity, responsible for the augmented reality game Ingress and a location based mobile app. Ingress is a very successful augmented reality game, which has been downloaded more than 12 million times and which uses a smartphone as the play platform. Within the game, augmented reality game play is … Read more

Apple Watch Dominates With 68% Share

US research firm Tractica has predicted that 16.7 million Apple Watches will be shipped this year, out of a total market of 24.4 million smartwatches. The figure represents a 68.4% market share. Research director Aditya Kaul commented on the usefulness of Apple Pay as a ‘killer app’, as well as demand in China. Kaul added … Read more

3D Display Introduces Novel User Experience in Various CE Sectors

The explosive growth of the consumer electronics sector all over the world has created a plethora of opportunities for three-dimensional (3D) displays. The technology has transformed user experience in the 3DTV segment, its most commercially successful segment, and is now set to become a game changer in the markets for smartphones, tablets and laptops. New … Read more

Apple Watch Set to Capture 68% of Smart Watch Market by End 2015

Launched in April 2015, the Apple Watch represented a watershed moment in the development of the nascent smart watch sector, capturing the rapt attention of industry participants and consumers alike. Smart watches have undergone a strong period of innovation and development during the past year, with numerous models introduced on the Android Wear operating system … Read more

Demand for Novel Display Materials Set to Surge in H2 2015

Starting in the second half of 2015, the overall consumption of active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) materials will surge, as LG Display increases the production of white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) TV panels. In the first half of 2015, the WOLED organic materials market reached $58 million; however, in the second half of the year … Read more

Samsung Improves AMOLED Yet Again

The Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ are Samsung’s newest flagship phones (Samsung Beats Apple to Flagship Punch), and feature the company’s latest version of OLED technology. Ray Soneira of DisplayMate has analysed the performance of each phone’s display in a variety of lab tests, as part of his display shootout series (http://tinyurl.com/ot4tu2r). The Note … Read more

An iCar? Why iBother?

This week, I covered the news that Apple really does seem to be moving forward with its project to build a self-driving car (Confirmation of Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans). ‘Project Titan’, as it’s known to us mere mortals, will be an electric vehicle that can cart users in relative comfort from point A to point … Read more

NEC Hopes Solid State Appeals to Educators

NEC’s PH502L is said to be the world’s most compact 5,000-lumen laser projector. First introduced at ISE this year, we recently saw it an Infocomm (NEC Ups Laser Phosphor Projector Offerings), and the NEC showcase in London. As a solid state model, the laser light source in the DLP projector will last for 20,000 hours. … Read more

GPUs Perform Poorly, But Q3 Expectations Are Up

Despite the relative stability of the desktop PC market, and the growth of the technology sector in general, Jon Peddie Research reports an 11% QoQ fall in Q2 GPU shipments. Embedded and integrated GPUs are having an impact on sales of discrete GPUs. Total GPU shipments were down 18.8% YoY, combining the 21.7% desktop contraction … Read more

LG Raises OLED Investment on Chinese LCD Progress

LG Display is to shift its investment priority to OLED displays, due to the speed with which Chinese rivals are catching up in the LCD market. Over the next 10 years, LGD plans to spend KRW10 trillion ($8.5 billion) on ‘future displays’. These include OLEDs, flexible units and high-end LCD screens. The size of the … Read more

Confirmation of Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans

Documents seen by The Guardian imply that Apple really is working on its own self-driving car. Under a Public Records Act request, The Guardian newspaper obtained records of correspondence between Apple engineers and officials at the GoMentum Station: a 2,100-acre former naval base, 40 miles north of San Francisco. The facility contains 20 miles of … Read more