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IT Life Cycles Differ by Company Size in Poland

PMR’s latest research report covers the IT market in Poland, which is dominated by large companies as customers. These companies invest heavily in advanced implementations, despite relatively high saturation and short lifespan of computing systems. However, in the current economic climate, even these clients have to optimise their spending. Of particular interest to our readers … Read more

Invisage Uses QDs in Light Capture Film

US-based Invisage Technologies is developing a light capture film for image sensors, based on quantum dots. The company has now opened its first sensor-manufacturing facility at the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. The films (QuantumFilm technology) will be introduced later this year. Invisage is working with TSMC for wafer manufacturing and VisEra Technologies for colour … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 26

Smart Technologies‘ 84″ Smart Kapp 84 capture board (Smart Takes a Lesson From Boogie Board) is now available in Europe. It is being distributed by TD Maverick, Tech Data and Ingram Micro. (for more on the Smart Kapp iQ display, see our Infocomm report – Smart Adds iQ Displays to Kapp. The extremely thin X900C … Read more

Merck Makes €30 Million OLED Investment

Merck has begun construction on a new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The 2,000m² facility, which will be the target of a €30 million investment, will start production of materials for displays and lighting by July 2016. The company has said that it wants to be the leading supplier of OLED materials by … Read more

Wiko’s Dramatically Cuts Resolution

Wiko’s Rainbow smartphones are offered in white, black, green red or blue.French manufacturer Wiko has followed its Rainbow smartphone with a ‘concentrated version’ called the Rainbow Lite. It is an entry-level model (the tag line is ‘Back to basics!’); although is features a large (5″) display, with an IPS panel, resolution is only 854 x … Read more

Nokia Plans Smartphone Return

Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, has said that he wants to resurrect the brand’s name on smartphones. Speaking to Germany’s Manager Magazin, Sureev said that Microsoft will lose control of the brand name in 2016. Nokia is already looking for suitable partners to sign a licensing deal. Nokia is banned from the smartphone market until … Read more

Business Tablet Use Continues Quick Climb

Business tablet adoption is accelerating in the UK, France and Germany, says IDC. Penetration is expected to exceed 15% of the total client base by 2018 – compared to just 6% in the second half of 2014. IDC found that enterprise tablet use is no longer limited to executives; 60% are used by line-of-business staffMore … Read more

First Fall for MEA Tablets

After several years of successive gains, the MEA tablet market recorded its first-ever YoY decline in Q1’15, says IDC. Shipments fell 5.8%, to just over 3.8 million units. IDC said that the lower performance was caused by a sharp decline in Turkey – the region’s largest tablet market – where shipments were almost halved from … Read more