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Panasonic Starts New Solutions Businesses Using Ambient Lighting “Space Player” to Enhance the Value of Lighting Design

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Panasonic Corporation has begun selling the “Space Player”, a new type of lighting equipment combining the functions of traditional lighting and video projectors to offer non-conventional ambient lighting, as well as projection contents. The company will develop the new solutions businesses of the Space Player from the manufacturing to the sales, including the lighting design … Read more

Slidenjoy is a High-Quality Laptop Screen – Without a Laptop

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Laptops – they’re designed to be portable, but the trade-off is a lack of screen real estate. Or is it? A new project on Kickstarter – which was funded less than three days after being posted – aims to expand laptop usability while on-the-go. The Slidenjoy is a unit that can be attached to the … Read more

ZTE USA Makes the ZTE Spro 2 Smart Projector Available on the Verizon 4G LTE Network

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

ZTE USA, the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. and second largest in the no-contract market*, today announced the award-winning ZTE Spro 2™ Smart Projector is now available on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. Customers can purchase the ZTE Spro 2 for $599 with no annual contract and is available online at www.zteusa.com/zte-spro2-verizon. … Read more

Imagining the Personal Companion of the Near Future

July 13, 2015 by Bob Raikes

Our friend, Dr Jon Peddie, sent us this article, which he sub-titled “My smartphone helps me get through the day, and night” Today’s PongThe fast developing potential for truly useful applications that can convert our personal companions, our smartphones, from basic input/output devices into truly thinking machines is dazzling, science-fiction like, and almost staggering in … Read more

Flexenable Scientist Takes Faraday Medal

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Henning Sirringhaus, of FlexEnable, has won this year’s Faraday Medal from the UK’s Institute of Physics. Sirringhaus won the medal for ‘transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as our ability to exploit them’. The award recognises him as an organic semiconductor authority.

Smartphones Driving China’s Move to 4G Networks

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Smartphones are on track to account for two-thirds of mobile connections in China by the end of this year, according to a new study published today by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA. The new study, ‘How 4G Devices in China Are Transforming the World’s Largest Mobile Market’, finds that smartphone adoption in … Read more

4G Popularity Rises Rapidly in China

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

A new study by GSMA Intelligence shows that smartphones will represent two-thirds of mobile connections in China by the end of the year. Smartphone adoption in the country was at 62% by the end of Q1’15 – ahead of Europe’s 55%. The increasing popularity of international brands, as well as domestic vendors, is driving the … Read more

Statista: Microsoft Spent $9.4 Billion on a Sinking Ship

December 21, 2022July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Statista has released a chart that demonstrates the poor decision that Microsoft made on buying Nokia. As well as letting go of almost 7% of its global workforce (Microsoft to Cut 7,500 Jobs) – mostly in Finland – Microsoft is also restructuring its phone business in a $7.6 billion move.

‘The iPhone is the Only Product That Matters’

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Seeking Alpha has written an article discussing the dominance of the iPhone – over Apple’s own products. In the introduction, the website notes, ‘From a financial and business perspective, the iPhone is the only product that matters. The iPhone is amassing so much power at Apple, it is difficult to imagine any product being able … Read more

Field Tests Demonstrate ATSC Benefits

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

Field tests of ATSC 3.0 signals are taking place in Cleveland, USA, over the summer. An experimental broadcast licence has been granted to Tribune Broadcasting’s WJW-TV by the FCC. WJW-TV will provide a transmitter, tower and 6MHz channel for the tests, which began in May, by LG, Zenith’s R&D lab and GatesAir. So far, the … Read more

Have You Got America’s Ugliest Conference Room?

July 13, 2015 by Milos Pavlovic

Offices across the USA can now compete in ZTE’s “Ugliest Conference Room Makeover” contest, with a grand prize of a $50,000 room redesign. To enter, people can submit a photo of their ugly conference room, with a description of how a makeover would benefit them. The contest is being run to promote ZTE’s Spro 2 … Read more

Note 5 Will Precede IFA

July 13, 2015 by Tom Allen

The Wall Street Journal claims that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Note 5 before its traditional IFA launch date. Instead, the phablet will be launched in mid-August. The move will apparently be taken to have more time on the market before Apple’s next iPhone refresh. The iPhone 6 was unveiled just six days after the … Read more