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Well, the internet DID say the S6 would have three sides… Ever wondered what an all-glass phone would actually look like? Samsung has mocked internet rumour sites with its latest tongue-in-cheek references to the upcoming Galaxy S6. Visitors to the company’s new website (http://tinyurl.com/mq4yzql) can find some fairly extreme concepts – but they’re definitely real. … Read more
Apple was celebrated for adding ‘more diverse’ emojis lately, but the facial features remain resolutely “round eyes” – causing one of our readers to state, “I guess Asians don’t buy Apple products”.
Tom Versfelt, VP of channel and commercial sales at Epson America, has been named on the list of 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs. This list represents IT channel leaders holding direct responsibility for driving revenue and volume growth.
RDK Management, LLC announced today that the Reference Design Kit (RDK) now provides additional support for the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard that is widely used throughout Europe and other parts of the world. Specifically, in-band DVB Service Information (DVB-SI) elements are now available to the RDK community. The advancement was made possible thanks to … Read more
Merck’s Ralph Dammel has received the Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography. Presented at the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference, the award is presented for outstanding accomplishments in microlithographic technology.
Vestel took part in a tender for 700,000 tablets recently, as part of Turkey’s Fatih Project. The results of the tender will be announced soon.
Korea’s Chips&Media has appointed Dream Chip Technologies (DCT) in Germany as sales representative for its 4k video technology in Europe. The companies said that DCT will represent Chips&Media’s video cores in Europe offering high performance video encoder and decoder fro 4k resolution to a wide range of key markets. Commenting on the new partnership, Peter … Read more
Sources speaking to Business Korea have said that the Korean panel industry is increasingly being threatened by that of China, due to the Chinese government’s support. The sources said that the combined market share of Chinese companies in the large TFT-LCD market grew from 10.8% to 15% between 2012 and 2014, and is forecast to … Read more
Mediatek has developed a reference design for a pair of wearable smartglasses. Some features are similar to those in Google Glass, although the hardware is based on Mediatek’s MT2502 SoC and a microdisplay from Kopin – mounted on a telescopic rod – rather than the LCoS unit that Google was using. The Linkit platform enables … Read more
Admirable, a Hispanic signage network in the USA, has deployed 265 new 42″ screens using Broadsign’s cloud-based software. CTO Kristian Diaz said that Broadsign’s platform was “made for ad-based networks such as our own”.
15,000 OLED lighting panels from Konica Minolta have been used in a Japanese tulip festival, with three panels embedded in each of the 5,000 flowers. The panels were produced on Konica’s new roll-to-roll OLED fab. A video is available at http://tinyurl.com/p8wo9um.
Ingram Micro Mobility in France has added Acer smartphones to its portfolio. The distributor already offers Acer tablets.
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