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Apple and Samsung Driving Evolution in Embedded Touch Mobile Phone Displays, IHS Says

According to a new report from IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, embedded touch displays, including in-cell and on-cell touch displays, are forecast to have a nearly 40% share of touch module shipments for mobile phone applications this year. In-cell and on-cell touch displays for mobile phones grew … Read more

Market Share Building for Windows Tablets, says Strategy Analytics

Windows-based Tablets continued to grab more market share from competitor-branded Tablets by Apple and Google in the first quarter of 2015. Total Tablet shipments reached 51.8 million units in Q1 2015, down 9 percent from 56.7 million in Q1 2014, according to preliminary data by Strategy Analytics’ Tablet & Touchscreen Strategies (TTS) service report, “Global … Read more

Mood Sensing Patents – The New Frontier

Microsoft Mood Sensing patent

In recent news Microsoft and Apple were tapped as filing and receiving patents that describe mood or emotion sensing as part of the patents. Microsoft received a patent called “Wearable Emotion Detection Feedback System” (US Patent # 9,019,174 B2). This patent describes a possible way to detect the mood of people around the wearer of … Read more

GogglePal – Augmented reality for the Ski Slopes

GogglePal May 2015 3

Augmented reality glasses for sports have been on the market for quite some time and already have their share of market success. When it comes to skiing, Recon Instruments was the first and is still the leader. A position that GogglePal wants to fill by offering an alternative form of AR device aimed at snow … Read more

Light Emitting Paper Developed at Umeå University in Sweden

OLED development is a worldwide scientific undertaking. Asian countries lead in the manufacturing of OLED-based displays today, however material development as well as development of other light emitting technologies is widespread over the world. One of the other forms are Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells (LEC or LEEC). In a new report from Umeå University in … Read more

CEA Reports an Uptick in Consumer Sentiment Towards Tech Spending

CEA Index May 2015

The CEA collects data about the sentiment of consumers in the USA towards the economic development as well as technology spending. These sentiment surveys are not looking at what happened in the past, but are trying to project what is going to happen in the future. There is a difference between what people think about … Read more

IBM-Lenovo Deal was 10 Years Ago

Lenovo has marked the 10-year anniversary of its acquisition of IBM’s PC business. The move helped the company to evolve from a China-only PC maker to a global PC vendor. Lenovo celebrated the sale of more than 100 million Thinkpad (an IBM brand) laptops this year. (The Lenovo seems to me to be the best … Read more

Worldwide Tablet Market Contracts for Second Straight Quarter

Worldwide tablet shipments recorded a year-over-year decline for the second consecutive quarter in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15). Overall shipments for tablets and 2-in-1 devices fell to 47.1 million in 1Q15, a -5.9% decline from the same quarter a year ago, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet … Read more

SID Honors Luminaries from Around the World

The Society for Information Display (SID) today revealed this year’s industry innovators chosen to join the ranks of SID’s elite Honors and Awards recipients. These exceptional scientists, engineers and business leaders are selected from a field of highly talented professionals for their remarkable contributions to the field of information display. The 2015 honorees will be … Read more

Philips Quad HD Monitors Now in 32″ Size

MMD, the leading technology company and brand license partner for Philips Monitors, announces an exciting addition to the line-up of displays with super-fine resolutions beyond HD. At 32 inches, the BDM3270QP display is a new size for Philips Monitors with QHD, and offers users another choice for increasing their screen space. Raising productivity with its … Read more