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2014 EMEA Thin Client Results Will be Hard to Match

Thin clients in EMEA had a ‘brisk’ 2014 with 7.9% YoY growth (1.97 million units shipped) – but the market is now settling down. By the end of 2015, IDC expects the EMEA thin client market to return to lower growth. Global factors boosted shipments last year, such as Windows XP end-of-life and postponed commercial … Read more

Panel Non-Adjustments to Cause Notebook Oversupply – MIC

There are no plans to lower notebook panel shipments this year, says Taiwan’s MIC. Concerns have thus been raised over excess supply and price competition. A YoY comparison puts the panel/notebook unit shipment declines close together. Worldwide notebook PC panel shipments will reach 191.8 million this year, according to major vendors’ plans: a 0.3% YoY … Read more

Mexico Gives Away Almost 3 Million Digital TVs

Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute has distributed around 2.8 million digital TVs to poor families in the country, as the nation prepares to switch off analogue signals. A total of 13 million TVs and STB converters will be subsidised by the government as part of the scheme. ASO is due to be completed by the end … Read more

Leia Shows Off new Holographic Display

Leia 3d display

Last year we reported on a new type of display presented by David Fattal. The display uses a diffracting light guide to create 3D images floating in space. This report from my colleague Matt Brennesholtz explains how the display, which was developed at HP Labs, functions. After the company spun out of HP Labs as … Read more

FlexEnable Looking at New OLED & LCD Applications

This week, I made a visit to FlexEnable, the company that is the ip and technology part of the Plastic Logic company that split between the factory in Dresden (which continues as Plastic Logic GmbH) and the R&D/licensing group in Cambridge. I was surprised to realise that although they are relatively local and we have … Read more

LG Launches 5.5″ QHD Mobile Display with expanded Color Gamut

LG Displays 5.5 inch QHD LCD

LG has launched a new mobile display panel that offers an enhanced color gamut and QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution. This translates into a pixel density of 538 ppi. The new panel also includes in-cell touch technology and increased brightness at the same power consumption. According to the press release from LG, the new display … Read more

VR System Impression Pi Announces Funding Stretch Goal on Kickstarter

Impression Pi, the virtual and augmented reality headset that took Kickstarter by storm last month, has announced a new stretch goal and a referral program. The VR/AR headset has already raised 212% of its initial goal and is funding until May 7. Having surpassed their $75k goal quickly and raising more than $165k to date, … Read more

Google Arc Welder Puts Android Apps Everywhere

Google has released a new tool, Arc (App Runtime for Chrome) Welder that allows Android apps to run in the Chrome browser, whether the browser is running on Windows, iOS or Linux. >The software can be freely downloaded from the Chrome web store and no porting is said to be necessary. Arc Welder is still … Read more

Toshiba Launches First TransferJet Adapter for Apple iOS

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On March 1st, Toshiba announced a TransferJet adapter for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod. According to Toshiba, this is the first Apple-compatible TransferJet adaptor available on the market. Simultaneously, the company launched similar adaptors for Android and desktop PCs. The Android and PC adaptors are 30% smaller, have 30% lower power consumption and 1.7x … Read more