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Samsung’s past virtual fitting room applications have used LCD screens and cameras Samsung Display has shown off new OLED panels at Retail Asia Expo 2015 (RAE), which it says are the world’s first-such transparent and mirror units (Primeview will also show a mirror OLED at Infocomm (Preparing for Infocomm), which may also be this Samsung … Read more
NEC’s Vukunet ad serving platform has achieved more than 1.8 billion ad impressions – in 100,000 locations – since it was launched.
Samsung Display Co., Ltd. unveiled the industry’s first Mirror and Transparent OLED display panels in a dazzling state-of-the-art showcase for personalized shopping and informational browsing, held this week at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibit features the first retail use of advanced commercial OLED panels – a “virtual necklace” display for the … Read more
Click to enlargeNvidia has filed a patent for a VR headset, with its own CPU, GPU and storage built in. The unit will use six cameras – two forward, two down and two to the sides – and dual displays, one for each eye. The cameras angled down will track gestures, it has been suggested. … Read more
TD Maverick in Germany has expanded its partnership with Philips Professional Displays and will now be offering Philips’ entire digital signage portfolio. This includes video wall displays, touch and LED displays, high brightness and UHD displays, and Clinical-D Image solutions.
Website XperiaBlog has found that Sony’s M4 Xperia Aqua (Sony Improves the Look of its Waterproof Devices) is supplied with just 1.2GB of usable storage. The phone has 8GB of storage built in, but the Android OS takes up half of that, with an additional 2GB for Sony’s own apps. Almost 800MB is taken up … Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy Active line-up is expanding with the Galaxy S6 Active smartphone: an iteration on its current flagship. Built with rugged use in mind, the S6 Active is housed in an IP68-compliant housing. It can survive submersion in water up to 1.5m for 30 minutes, and is shock-proof and dust-resistant. The US MIL-STD-810G standard is … Read more
Asustek Computer shipped over 1.5 million smartphones in May, generating a profit for the company for the first time, and says it expects shipments to exceed two million in June. The company reported sales in May of NT$33.7 billion ($1.1 billion), down by 8.6% from a year earlier but just under 2% higher than April. … Read more
Innolux president JC Wang has said that the company will construct new G8.6 LCD facilties, entering mass production in Q3’15. Monthly capacity is expected to be 40,000 glass substrates. Panels sized from 40″ – 100″ (in increments of 5″) will be produced on the line(s); 23.6″ and 58″ panels will also be able to be … Read more
Taiwan’s main backlight unit (BLU) makers, Radiant Opto-Electronics and Coretronic, reported mixed results in May. Radiant Opto’s sales for the month fell 8.3% sequentially to NT$2.9 billion ($93.7 million), just 0.8% higher than April. So far this year, the company’s sales have fallen 18.2% year on year to NT$15.6 billion ($504.1 million). Coretronic reported sales … Read more
Wistron shipped 1.3 million notebooks in May, 7.1% lower than April and the company says it expects its second quarter notebook shipments to suffer a sequential decline, having originally forecast up to 5% growth. Wistron believes that clients are not placing orders because consumers are waiting for the release of Windows 10. Wistron also shipped … Read more
The Spanish pay-TV regulator, CNMC, says that the market in Spain reached 5.1 million subscribers at the end of last year – with 345,000 new customers in Q4. 325,000 of these were IPTV subscribers. 63.2% of subscribers were using a convergent package (TV with one or more additional services, such as broadband). Revenues were up … Read more
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