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Vuzix Adds Prescription-Capable Smart Glasses

July 28, 2015 by Bob Raikes

>Rochester Optical has officially launched its ANSI (American National Standards Institute) rated safety glasses for the Vuzix M100. ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise, and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses … Read more

Research Reports Highlight Glass, Interactives and LFDs

July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

Below is a list of the paid market research reports published this week: Research and Markets has published a report on the global LCD glass market, covering the period between 2015 and 2019. Specifically, the report deals with the glass substrates used to make LCD displays. The present state of the market, as well as … Read more

Announcing the Cat S40 Refined Rugged Smartphone

July 28, 2015 by Bob Raikes

4G Android Lollipop Handset Intended to Combine Great Looks with Exceptional Rugged Credentials and Strong Specs Cat phones today announced the Cat® S40 rugged smartphone, a tough, durable device that looks as good as it performs. Designed to appeal to the growing rugged smartphone market, which saw over 10m units sold globally in 2014, the … Read more

How to Make a Rugged Phone Attractive

July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

Rugged phone maker Cat Phones (part of the Caterpillar brand) has introduced its most durable model to date: the S40. In a survey of former smartphone users, who now use a rugged phone, Cat Phones found that 80% had damaged a handset in the last five years. Half had cracked or shattered the display, and … Read more

Flextronics Officially Changes Name to Flex

July 28, 2015 by Bob Raikes

New Brand Represents Company’s Sketch-to-Scale™ Solutions to Provide Competitive Advantage in the Age of Intelligence™ Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), a leading sketch-to-scale solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world, announced today that it has officially changed its name to Flex, with a promise to help the world Live smarter™. “We have … Read more

Nintendo Closes TVii

December 21, 2022July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

Three years after its launch, Nintendo is closing its TVii service (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 38). TVii was intended to be a single interface for multiple content sources, using the Wii U Game Pad as a remote. However, it lacked popular apps such as Netflix. The news comes six months after Nintendo said that … Read more

Tablet Processor Sales and Value Down in Q1

July 28, 2015 by Milos Pavlovic

Tablet processor chip sales fell 6% YoY in Q1’15, says Strategy Analytics. The market is worth only 1/7 of the smartphone processor market, at $733 million – a 6% decline in value. Apple (28%), Qualcomm (19%), Intel (16%), Mediatek and Samsung were the top application processor vendors by revenue share. Strategy Analytics found that Android-based … Read more

LG Promises OLED Expansion

July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

LG will release five new OLED TVs in its home market of Korea in the coming months, including a flat unit. Four of the new models will be UltraHD TVs. According to Business Korea, the TVs have been reduced in thickness, to 4.8mm. This is even thinner than Sony’s X900C LCD TV (4.9mm). Despite showing … Read more

Canon Result 28/07/15

July 28, 2015 by Yvette Raikes

Canon saw Q2 profits of ¥68.2 billion ($559 million), down 16% from the year-ago profit of ¥80.8 billion ($663 million), on revenue of ¥974.4 billion ($7.99 billion), up 5% from ¥926.8 billion ($7.6 billion) a year earlier. For the first six months there were profits of ¥102.1 billion ($837 million), a drop of 20% from … Read more

ViewSonic Shows Prototype in Cologne

July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

ViewSonic will show off a prototype of a new curved monitor at Gamescom in Cologne this month. Seen for the first time in Europe (after previously being shown at trade shows in the USA and China), the XG3401 (name is not final) will support AMD’s Freesync technology. Resolution of the IPS panel is 3440 x … Read more

Flextronics Changes Name

July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

Flextronics has officially changed its name. The company will now be known simply as ‘Flex’, to reflect the fact that it is ‘more than just an EMS, supply chain solutions or a ‘tronics’ company’.

AUO Building Premium TV Panels

July 28, 2015 by Tom Allen

AUO is developing 65″ LCD TV panels combining quantum dots, UltraHD resolution and HDR technology, say Taiwanese media reports. These panels will also be released in 55″ and 85″ sizes, in the second half of this year. They are curved units with a direct-LED backlight system. Local dimming and 110% NTSC gamut coverage are expected.