Copaco Extends Lenovo Partnership
Copaco in Belgium has extended its partnership withe Lenovo and is now also distributing the company’s corporate PCs and servers.
UK OOH Hits Record Revenue
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.
Ason Develops 50,000 cd/m² OLED
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’s S6 Teaser Hints at Low Reflections
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 2015 is Upon Us
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 Warns Over OTT Margins
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
Nvidia Continues AIB Domination, Says Jon Peddie
Graphics add-in boards (aka graphics cards), suffered a seasonally-expected fall in Q4’14, says Jon Peddie Research. Shipments were down 0.68% QoQ and 17.52% YoY; much further than desktop PCs, which were down 0.72%. The decline, JPR feels, was somewhat due to the popularity of tablet PCs and embedded graphics. However, PC gaming momentum continues to … Read more
DARPA Working on the Future Display – The One Without Displays
When we talk about wearables, especially about augmented and virtual reality glasses, we always think of discrete imagers that create the best possible result in such applications. Discussions about LCOS, DMD, LCD and OLED often comes down to resolution, frame rates and the like. Now DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is working on … Read more
HUD Market Expected to Grow Strongly in Coming Years
The head up display (HUD) is making a big impact in new car models as one of the selling features that is pushed as a safety feature. Over the last few years, models including HUDs have mostly been higher end luxury cars, a fact that is changing more and more. Mid-size and even compact cars … Read more
More BYOD, Fewer Displays at Toy Fair 2015
I went to the Toy Fair 2015 in New York on February 15th. One thing I saw very little of was toys with displays in them. Instead, since everyone has an iPhone, or so the toy industry assumes, all toys needing a display are of the Bring Your Own Display (BYOD) sort. For example, of … Read more
Barcelona FC Fans Get Smartphone System for Tickets
Barcelona Football Club has introduced a new ticketing system which allows fans to gain access to matches at its Nou Camp Stadium using their smartphones.
Nvidia gains 3% in Q4 from last quarter, Intel dropped 4%, AMD slipped 7%
Graphics processors, stand-alone discrete devices, and embedded processor-based GPUs are ubiquitous and essential components in all systems and device today from handheld mobile devices, PCs, and workstations, to TVs, servers, vehicle systems, signage, game consoles, medical equipment, and wearables. New technologies and semiconductor manufacturing processes are taking advantage of the ability of GPU power to … Read more
