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There has been further speculation about Sharp’s plans for restoring its LCD business, following the company’s announcement last month of its mid-term management plan (Sharp Secures Second Bank Bail-Out). Latest reports suggest that Sharp will target LCDs for use in automobiles to help return its LCD unit to profitability. Sharp is reportedly looking at producing … Read more
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) says it plans to start construction of a new 6G plant in Fujian in September, with commercial production scheduled to begin in the second half of 2017. Initial monthly production capacity will be 30,000 sheets measuring 1.85 metres by 1.5 metres, producing small and medium panels for smartphone and tablet use. … Read more
Exterion Media and Telefonica UK have announced a partnership to support the London Underground (LU) media estate. The partnership will use Telefonica’s Smart Steps solution, which uses anonymous data from across its network of 24 million O2 devices, to provide Exterion with audience data, allowing it to provide insights to LU advertisers that can be … Read more
Digital Projection has signed a partnership with Telion AG, which will see its installation and high-resolution projectors offered in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Dixons Carphone reported a strong performance in its first year of trading since Dixons Retail merged with Carphone Warehouse (CPW). Group like-for-like revenue was up 6% for the year and 9% in the final quarter and the company said it made further market share gains across electricals and mobile in its main European territories. In … Read more
Yang Yuanqing, CEO of Lenovo, has said that new Motorola products will be released this year – possibly as soon as the summer. They will include phones and watches, he told The Telegraph.
Specifications have leaked for Samsung’s rumoured Galaxy Tab S2 8.0, which (apparently) come from China’s TENAA certification centre. The 8″ model will be 5.4mm thick, with an OLED display and 1536 x 1048 resolution. A 1.9GHz octa-core processor is expected, with 3GB of RAM, Android 5.0 and 4G connectivity. A larger (9.7″) version will also … Read more
Preliminary live video encoding for the French Tennis Open, in UltraHD with HEVC, are being provided by Ateme. Images are now being broadcast on Fransat, at 50fps and using the Rec.2020 colour gamut.
In its latest Ericsson Mobility Report, Ericsson predicts that 70% of the world’s population will own a smartphone by 2020. Smartphone subscriptions will more than double, to 6.1 billion. 80% of new subscriptions will come from emerging regions: APAC and MEA. Ericsson’s report (http://tinyurl.com/pk9y9n7) is an update on global mobile trends. Data shows that mature … Read more
Most of you have probably heard of the term Internet of Things (IoT) which refers to the fact that millions and soon, probably billions of devices will be connected to information via the Internet. Recently Andrew (Drew) Jamison at Scalable Displays has been chirping about what he calls the “Internet of Display” (IoD). Since reading … Read more
IDC record the eighth consecutive quarter of steady growth for the global wearable market in Q1’15 – before the debut of the Apple Watch. Shipments grew 200% YoY, to 11.4 million units (from 3.8 million). Wearables performed against the first-quarter decline seen in most markets. IDC analyst Ramon Llamas said that this, “demonstrates growing end-user … Read more
The Zed stereo camera, produced by Stereolabs Inc. (San Francisco, CA), is a lightweight depth sensor that can capture scenes in 3D in both indoor and outdoor venues. The depth information can then be used, for example, to create 3D models and maps or for robot and drone collision avoidance and/or navigation. The depth resolution … Read more
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