Empowering display industry professionals with cutting-edge insights and analysis
LG Electronics USA has appointed Gary Wicka to the newly created position of B2B senior director of marketing. Wicka will lead marketing efforts to support LG’s commercial display business in the US. He joins LG from Dell where he most recently served as North American director of marketing for displays and client peripherals.
LG’s OLED TVs have been recognised for their display quality in the USA and Europe. Digital Trends gave a five-star rating to the company’s 65EC9700 TV and chose it as the editor’s choice. In Germany, the German Association of Electrical Engineers (Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE)) said that the company’s 65″ and 77″ UltraHD OLED TVs … Read more
A new company called Vector is to introduce a smartwatch later this month with ‘a whole month’ of battery life. Vector will show the watch at an event in Basel, on the same day as watchmaking fair Baselworld begins (19th March). The company, which includes former Timex CEO Joe Santana, says that it has stripped … Read more
There have been unconfirmed reports that Japan Display (JDI) is in talks with Apple about investing in a new plant to manufacture screens for Apple iPhones and possibly for the Apple Watch. According to a report in Reuters, JDI is aiming to become Apple’s primary supplier of iPhone screens and is negotiating with Apple to … Read more
Japan Display has begun to sell small memory-in-pixel reflective colour LCD modules, for smartwatches and similar wearables. Because they are reflective, the modules consume ‘less than 0.5%’ of the power of transparent-type units. A prototype reflective display from JDI was seen at SID 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 22). The memory-in-pixel technology means that … Read more
Scala and UK telco BT have signed an agreement to work together, supplying digital solutions worldwide. These will range from staff tablets to videowalls and can be installed in areas such as retail, banking and showrooms.
Copaco in Belgium has extended its partnership withe Lenovo and is now also distributing the company’s corporate PCs and servers.
The UK’s OOH revenue was at its highest-ever level in Q4’14, according to the Outdoor Media Centre – close to £300 million ($462.3 million). The sector was up 6.1% YoY in Q4 and 3% in 2014 overall. According to Nielsen, technology and banking were the top-spending product categories, although retail also grew significantly.
Photo credit: Sangyo TimesJapan’s Ason, which develops OLED lighting panels using a multi-stack structure, has a new unit that can go as high as 50,000 cd/m². In an interview with the Sangyo Times, CEO Yukikazu Nakagawa said that 12 emitting layers were used on the new unit. He did not reveal the product’s lifetime at … Read more
Samsung has shown two new teasers for the Galaxy S6, expected to be revealed at MWC next week. The new videos hint at low reflections and a bezel-less design. Find them at http://tinyurl.com/kbbytfv and http://tinyurl.com/oopapaw.
MWC is about to get underway in Barcelona, running from 2nd to 5th March. Here, we present a round-up of various companies and products that will be at what is being called the world’s largest mobile show. Two smartphones – one running Android and the other Windows – will be introduced by Acer. Kyocera and … Read more
DirecTV added 149,000 subscribers in Q4’14, the company has said, ending the year with 20.35 million US subscribers. 903,000 subscribers joined the company in Latin America. CEO Mike White cautioned that OTT margins are “pretty thin”, and said “it’s not clear to me that it’s a particularly profitable idea”. He added that DirecTV was prepared … Read more
Jon Peddie Research
4 St. Gabrielle Ct.
Tiburon, California 94920
415-435-9368
© 2025 Jon Peddie Research
