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Microsoft is increasing its orders to Chinese smartphone makers, as it switches away from Taiwanese manufacturers, say supply chain sources. The company has apparently made the shift to reduce its costs. Truly Optoelectronics is expected to be one of Microsoft’s main suppliers in 2015.
PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in January. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘large venue’. Optoma took the top spot in the large venue category, with the EH501. Epson had the second- and third-best-selling models: the Powerlite 1940W and 1980WU. ASK Proxima’s C520 … Read more
Cambrios and Heraeus have announced a new class of flexible, transparent and conductive material. Both companies already produce materials that produce such conductive layers. Heraeus is the supplier for Clevios a PEDOT:PSS organic solution, while Cambrios is the supplier of Clear Ohm silver nanowires. Both materials are already in use by customers and now they … Read more
The European Desktop Monitor market managed to end the year just 1% up on 2013, according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. Although the growth was low, it follows four consecutive years of decline. “There was a huge number of CRT monitors replaced by the first LCD monitors between 2005 and 2009 and those monitors are coming … Read more
A new study on connected cars of the future predicts that the growing market for displays/sensors and micro controllers will move the auto industry well beyond a niche market. It tracks a new wave of driving technology that puts these core hardware systems at the center of safety, control and entertainment, in the ultimate mobile … Read more
Spanish VoD service Wuaki.tv has now been launched in Italy. It aims to be in 15 European countries by the end of the year, having finished 2014 in four, with two million users. Ireland and Austria are the next countries being targeted.
65,000 new customers joined Deutsche Telekom’s IPTV platform, Entertain, in Q4 last year. The platform had 2.44 million subscribers at the end of the year.
The 10 top US pay-TV operators lost 20,600 subscribers collectively in Q4’14, according to Informitiv’s Multiscreen Index. This compares to a loss of 45,000 in Q3. Despite these results, the companies gained 82,000 subscribers in the year as a whole, taking their combined total to almost 87.7 million. DirecTV gained 99,000 over the year, while … Read more
According to HAKOM, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, pay-DTT was the fastest-growing segment of the Croatian TV market last year, with subscriptions rising 52.5% YoY to 47,900. However, IPTV had the most subscribers (almost 394,000, up 0.7% YoY), followed by cable (more than 154,000) and satellite (more than 147,000). FTA DTT declined 5% … Read more
Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions about wearables. Sharp has analysed some of the applications and has already found a big difference in the display requirements between … Read more
Ahead of the official launch of the Apple Watch, US-based Brikk has announced that its ‘Lux Watch’ , which consists of 30 different models of Apple’s wrist-worn device, is now available for pre-order. Available in models including 24ct yellow gold, 18ct rose gold and 950 platinum, the company also offers customers 0.5ct, 2.3ct or over … Read more
Hee Eun Lee is from LG and she spoke about power reduction in mobile display devices by reducing refresh rates For smartphones, hardware is improving, but the power consumption remains an issue. Refreshing the panel takes 40% of the power used by the display system. Simply reducing refresh rates means a potential problem with flicker. … Read more
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