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The approach of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where NHK has promised 8k broadcasting, is expected to spur a new round of TV resolution increases, says IHS. 8k TV shipments having not yet begun in serious volumes – 2,700 will be shipped this year – but IHS expects 911,000 to be shipped in 2019. IHS’s forecast … Read more
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
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, 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
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
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 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
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 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.
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 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
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
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