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Goldgenie Commemorates Cecil the Lion

Several HTC phones have been customised in the past, with special logos and designs, including the One M8 Tattoo (HTC Takes The Needle to a Smartphone) and One M9 Ink (Inking Up With HTC). UK-based Goldgenie has now decided to release a £1,580 ($2,465) One M9 to commemorate the death of Cecil the lion in … Read more

Empire State Projection Shines a Light on Extinction

A light has been shone on the face of the world’s largest-ever extinction event – literally. 40 digital projectors were used recently to project video onto the Empire State Building in New York, for the first time ever. The videos – organised by the Oceanic Preservation Society and makers of a new documentary called ‘Racing … Read more

Mid-Range Sony Phones Suit Consumer and Commercial Use

Two premium smartphones have been unveiled by Sony. Although designed for the consumer markets, certain features may give them enterprise appeal. Both run Android 5.0. The Xperia C5 Ultra is a 6″ phablet (with 1920 x 1080 resolution and a 0.8mm bezel. It features a 1.7GHz 64-bit octa-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of … Read more

Computer Graphics Continue Steady Growth

Since it was established in the 1970s, the computer graphics market has been a growth industry. Recessions have come and gone, but new features and applications – UltraHD, the move to mobile – have continued to propel the market. Jon Peddie Research predicts that the worldwide CG market will grow from a value of $105 … Read more

Pixelligent Claims to Double OLED Light Output

Pixelligent, a US-based company, has developed OLED lighting materials using its own light extraction materials. The company says that OLED lighting panels using its materials deliver more than twice the amount of light as comparable products. The key ingredient is the Pixclear Zirconia nanocrystal family of high index materials. These can be used as an … Read more

Samsung’s Next Phones Leak Online

Prolific tipster Evan Blass (aka @EVLeaks) has done it again – this time sharing images of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge Plus smartphones. Blass says that the new Note will have a 5.66″ Super AMOLED display (2560 x 1440). It will run Android 5.1.1 on Samsung’s own Exynos 7420 processor (octa-core, four … Read more

Q2 Will Reverse Large Panel Declines, Says MIC

Taiwan’s MIC says that shipments of large-area TFT-LCD panels, for notebooks, monitors and TVs, reached 148.8 million units in Q1’15. This is a 4.1% QoQ fall. Monitor panels slipped the most, by 11.2%, while notebook panels fell 3.1%. MIC writes that notebook vendors had been prompted to build panel inventories since Q2’14, due to concerns … Read more

Chip Sales Enter 26th Month of Growth

Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $84 billion in Q2’15: a 2% YoY and 1% QoQ increase. Data from the Semiconductor Industry Association shows that global sales in June were $28 billion (up 2% YoY, down 0.4% MoM), and year-to-date sales in the first half of 2015 were up 3.9% YoY. Semiconductor growth has been somewhat slowed … Read more