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Allied Market Research (AMR) has predicted that the global 3D display market will be worth $112.9 billion by 2020, with a CAGR of 26.8% from 2014. More than 65% of revenue will be contributed by TVs and smartphones; AMR predicts that half of all TVs will have 3D by 2018. Stereoscopic and auto-stereoscopic will remain … Read more
Betsy Larson, VP of channel sales at NEC’s American branch, has been named as a 2015 Channel Chief by CRN Magazine. The list identifies channel executives who continually defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.
Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) is to separate the management of its US and international businesses, just three years since the two units were brought under the control of a single CEO. William Eccleshare, who has served as group CEO since 2012, will relinquish responsibility for the US and will become CEO of Clear Channel International … Read more
Microsoft is reported to be planning to close two mobile phone manufacturing factories in Dongguan and Beijing, China by the end of this month. The two plants were previously operated by Nokia and came to Microsoft when it acquired the Finnish phone company last year. The closure was anticipated when Microsoft announced last summer a … Read more
Sources at Coretronic say that the company expects its shipments of backlight units to rise 10% YoY in 2015. Total shipments last year were just under 93 million units: a 20% YoY increase. Q4 shipments were down 11% QoQ, to 23.5 million, of which 6% were TV backlights, 25% were for monitors, 33% for notebooks … Read more
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.
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