Slovak Telekom Enjoys Massive TV Growth
In 2013, Slovak Telekom ended the year with just under 200,000 subscribers for its TV services. The company expanded significantly in 2014, ending the year with almost 470,000.
UK TV is Unchanged in 2014
Traditional TV use was very slightly down in the UK in 2014, with 98.4% of viewing done on TV sets, compared to 98.5% in 2013. Viewing on mobiles was up a similar amount, from 1.5% to 1.6%. The data comes from the UK’s commercial TV marketing body, Thinkbox. Lindsay Clay, chief executive of Thinkbox, said, … Read more
And Finally… – Vol 22 10
Larry Shaw was the first person to celebrate Pi Day, in 1988Maths-lovers, rejoice – you get to live through an event happening just twice every 100 years – as long as you use an American calendar. On 14th March, at 9:26:53 (a.m and p.m) the date and time will reflect the first 10 digits of … Read more
AMPAS Honours SMPTE Members
Members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) have received several Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Oscars were presented to Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments (TI) and David Gray of Dolby Laboratories. Other awards went to Steven Tiffen and Michael Fecik of The … Read more
A Natural Transparent Display
Scientists at MIT and Harvard University may have found the ‘key’ to next-generation augmented reality displays – on the shell of a European mollusc. The blue-rayed limpet is a small shellfish living in kelp beds, primarily in the North Sea. It is distinguished by bright blue dotted lines running in parallel along its shell. The … Read more
Lytro to Shift to Video and Virtual Reality
Lytro, the US-based light field camera company, says it has raised an additional $50 million in a Series C funding round and will use the money to make a strategic change into video and virtual reality. The company’s CEO Jason Rosenthal said that the change in direction would result in the loss of 25-50 jobs, … Read more
UDC Result 28/02/2015
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) posted a net profit of $13.1 million in the final quarter of the year on turnover of $56.2 million, which compares with a net profit of $57.9 million on turnover of $49.5 million in Q4 of the previous year. Net profit in the fourth quarter of last year included a total … Read more
Prestigio Goes Dual-SIM
Prestigio’s Muze A3 smartphone is an entry-level/mid-range unit with a large battery. Boasting a 1.3GHz quad-core processor from Mediatek, running Android 4.4, the Muze A3 has a 3,000mAh battery and features dual SIM slots. It has 4GB of memory, expandable to 32GB via micro-SD; users can also access 200GB of free cloud storage, provided by … Read more
A Study of Distance Estimation in Augmented Reality Display Systems
A recent article reports the results of a study to determine the ability of users to estimate distances between real and virtual objects presented by an augmented reality display system. To put this study into context, I think that it is valid to make an analogy to a topic that may be somewhat more familiar. … Read more
Kiosk Group Announces Next Generation of iPad, Android and Windows Kiosks
Kiosk Group, Inc. has revealed the next generation of tablet-based self-service kiosks with its Revolution 16 and Revolution 24 enclosures. The Rev16 and Rev24 have been designed to offer short lead times, low-cost implementation and a massive area for branding. The Rev16 will fit: Any 10″ to 13″-class tablet such as the iPad Air2, 12″ … Read more
Kverve Optics Gets Funding from projectiondesign Founder Jorn Eriksen
Kverve Optics AS is proud to announce that the co-founder of Projectiondesign AS, Mr. Jorn Eriksen, has bought 40% of Kverve Optics AS and that Mr. Eriksen will take the position as the Chairman of the Board. Projectiondesign AS is a manufacturer of a portfolio of high end projectors to the professional world market and … Read more
FlexEnable to Showcase Flexible Electronics Technology Platform at Mobile World Congress
FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, will showcase its flexible electronics technology platform for mobile and wearable applications for the first time at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The world’s first plastic in-plane switching (IPS) liquid crystal display (LCD), which FlexEnable recently developed together with Merck, will … Read more
