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Amino Rolls Out Smart Home to Non-IP Customers

Multiscreen solutions were the highlight of Amino’s stand. The company is an IPTV specialist and was highlighting the technology’s distribution capabilities. Amino was showcasing an UltraHD HEVC platform using its Aminet software, as well as the Live Advanced Media Platform and Premium Connect solution. The latter two products are used for multi-stream recording and multi-screen … Read more

Anga Com Replaces STB Vendors

Anga Com 2015 will take place in Cologne, Germany from the 9th – 11th June, and bookings have exceeded expectations. 440 exhibitors from 35 countries have booked space so far. Anga Com managing director, Peter Charissé, said, “We have been able to more than compensate the market-driven decline among set-top-box providers by new participants from … Read more

Clear Channel’s Storm Spreads Over Midlands

Clear Channel has launched two new sites, under its Storm brand. The first, the Hammersmith Tower, is on the Hammersmith Flyover in London – the sixteenth location in the city for the Storm network. The screen is 5.38m x 6.91m, with a 12mm pixel pitch on the main screen and 6mm pitch on the logo … Read more

DisplayLink Dock Accepts Multiple Device Types

At the recent Interop Las Vegas Expo, DisplayLink showed a dock that connected to a new Macbook, Chromebook Pixel 2 and Windows notebook via USB-C, and existing notebooks, tablets and Android smartphones through USB-A. DisplayLink was highlighting USB’s flexibility and simplicity across connections and operating systems.

LG Brings Premium Features to Tiny Projector

LG’s new ‘Mini Beam’ DLP projector, the PF1500G, is a bright LED projector designed for portability; it weighs 1.5kg and measures 132 x 220 x 84mm. The Mini Beam has installation flexibility. It features four-point (vertical and horizontal) keystone correction and a 1.1x optical zoom. Focus is manual. Projection can take place from 1m – … Read more

Cheap Handsets Cause Smartphone Jump in MEA

Smartphone shipments rose 83% YoY in the MEA region in 2014. The availability of cheap and dual-SIM models bolstered demand last year, with smartphones taking 41.9% of the region’s mobile phone market, according to IDC – up from 27% in 2013, with the overall handset market expanding 19.6% in volume terms. Affordable smartphones have hit … Read more

Applied Materials Drops Tokyo Electron Bid

Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron have agreed to end the business agreement which would have seen Applied Materials acquire Tokyo Electron for $9.4 billion. The decision came after the US Department of Justice told the companies that their proposals for a combined business were not sufficient to replace the competition lost from the merger. Based … Read more

Wintek Wins Reprieve from Court

Taiwan’s Taichung District Court has approved Wintek’s restructuring plan. Last October, the troubled touch panel maker filed its restructuring panel and an emergency injunction seeking court protection of its assets. The court appointed three trustees to oversee the reorganisation plan. As of the third quarter of last year, Wintek had accumulated liabilities of NT$53.5 billion … Read more