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SMART accredited reseller and installer, Smart Presentations Ltd, is a certified installer of SMART Room Systems incorporating Microsoft’s enterprise communications tool, Lync, which is today being officially re-branded as Skype for Business. The SMART Room System for Microsoft Skype for Business is an integrated solution that ensures all business meeting components – video, audio and … Read more
Paul Butler, sales director at AOC/MMD UK and Ireland, has been recognised as one of the region’s top technology executives by PCR. Butler has worked in the IT channel for more than 20 years (and, of course, worked for Display Monitor’s publisher, Meko Ltd. – Congratulations, Paul!)
Nanosys has doubled its quantum dot production capacity, to 25 tons per year. The new capacity enables Nanosys to provide optical components to more than 6 million 60″ UltraHD TVs a year and the company now claims to be the biggest provider of QDs in the world.
Nanosys, enabling a new generation of vibrant, energy-efficient displays with its Quantum Dot technology, today announced it has doubled its Quantum Dot materials manufacturing capacity to 25 tons per year in response to rapidly increasing demand from leading UHD television makers. Nanosys’ new mass production process enables the company to produce enough Quantum Dot materials … Read more
Hannspree’s Android Box, which turns a normal PC into an Android device, is now available in the UK through Entatech. The Android Box was built to partner with HannsG touch screen monitors.
Worldwide small, medium and large touch panel demand has increased by double- or triple-digits in recent years. It is forecast to have risen 19.1% YoY in 2014 and will grow 15.1%, to 2.1 billion units, this year – according to IHS. Single-digit growth will begin in 2017, as the smartphone and tablet markets become saturated. … Read more
Tag Heuer, the Swiss watch manufacturer, has announced a partnership with Intel and Google to launch a smartwatch based on Android Wear. The watch will be launched this year. Jean-Claude Biver, president of Tag Heuer owner LVMH’s watch division, said that they could have worked with Google or Apple, but asked “[W]hy should we do … Read more
Barco is now offering its Present-P and Present-C Series business projectors, along with ClickShare, through a US distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.
Sharp has issued a further denial to reports in Nikkei this week that it is planning job cuts, capital enforcement and a revised earnings forecast. Nikkei had claimed that Sharp was seeking a ¥200 billion ($1.6 billion) capital injection from its main banks,Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, which was ¥50 billion ($410 million) … Read more
Nvidia’s GPU technology Conference took place in the USA recently, with a new flagship GPU (see Product News) announced as well as a brand new architecture. Maxwell is Nvidia’s 10th-generation GPU architecture, and will be succeeded by ‘Pascal’ in 2016. According to Nvidia, Pascal is as much as 10 times faster than Maxwell. Pascal’s design … Read more
E Ink still sells a lot of electrophoretic displays (EPDs) for eReaders but, despite the recent introduction of new and significantly improved eReaders, that is now a mature market. So the company is looking at other categories – such as smartwatches, smartphones and signage – to fuel future growth. There have been interesting design wins … Read more
At a press event in Taipei, Gartner research director Brian Blau stated that the total unit sales for virtual reality, augmented reality and other smart glass apps will grow to 2 million units by 2016 and 5 million in 2017 followed by 8 million in 2018. This includes all head mounted displays. They conclude that … Read more
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