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Screen Innovations Takes its Place Among the Stars

Screen Innovations has built a projection screen for the International Space Station – which has been taken up and installed already. The first-ever screen-in-the-stars is a 65″ unit, reflecting ambient light and developed to work in zero gravity. It replaces the 13″ tablet-sized displays that were being used to communicate with Mission Control and uses … Read more

BSI Supports Low-Light Photography for Prestigio

The Grace X7, a new smartphone by Prestigio, is a mid-range device with a premium design. The phone is 6.9mm thick and weighs 134g. According to the company the phone is designed for photographers, with a 13MP rear camera. The sensor uses backside illumination to improve low-light performance. The front camera has a 5MP sensor. … Read more

Computacenter UK Performs Well in Q1

Computacenter said that its UK business achieved 7% year on year revenue growth in Q1, reaching £361.4 million ($554.8 million), with a 27% revenue growth in its supply chain business due to a specific customer’s spend. Sales were also up in Germany, rising 5% to £252.3 million ($387.1 million). However, France continues to be a … Read more

Screen Innovations Recruited by NASA for Space Station Project

Screen Innovations (SI), purveyors of innovation in the two-piece video projection industry, has been invited by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create the first projection-screen for use in outer space, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). On April 14, 2015, the rocket SpaceX 6 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 18

The Data Display Group now holds samples of AUO‘s P550HVN04.2, which was announced last year. The unit consists of two 55″ displays in a single 19.6mm-thick housing. The displays can show the same or different content. They have 1920 x 1080 resolution, 700 cd/m² of brightness and a 4,000:1 contrast ratio. A price has been … Read more

Samsung Discusses Curved Display Plans

Samsung Display has published more information about the flexible AMOLED display used on the Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone. The Galaxy S6 Edge uses the third iteration of Samsung’s curved displays; the first was a horizontal curve on the Galaxy Round (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39) and the second was the single-side curved AMOLED display … Read more

Facebook Earnings Call Implies No Oculus in 2015

While there had been rumours of a consumer launch this year, it appears that the Oculus Rift will not be reaching shelves in 2015. The CFO of Facebook (which bought Oculus last year – see Display Monitor Vol 21 No 13), David Wehner, said in an earnings call, “We have not announced any specific plans … Read more

Microsoft Result 30/04/2015

Microsoft Corporations’s Q3 net profit dropped 11.9% to $4.9 billion from $5.6 billion in the third quarter of last year, as turnover increased 6.5% to $21.7 billion from $20.4 billion in Q3 of the previous year. Microsoft’s net profit for the first nine months of the year was down 11.8% year on year to $15.4 … Read more