Dell Takes On Avnet for Wyse Thin Clients
Avnet Technology Solutions has been appointed by Dell to distribute its Wyse thin computing offer in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
JCDecaux Secures New Airport Advertising Rights
JCDecaux has won the tender for a 10-year contract to install and operate advertising screens at the Rio De Janeiro Galeão International Airport – Tom Jobim International Airport, in Rio de Janeiro. The company has not yet announced how many displays or of what type will be installed. JCDecaux will take over the advertising concessions on 1st … Read more
Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies
Plastic Logic, the UK based developer of organic electronics including organic TFT backplanes for flexible displays, is splitting the existing company into two entities. According to reports, the split will become effective this month. The UK activities will work under the name of FlexEnable and focus on the development of organic TFT backplanes for flexible … Read more
Lenovo’s Next Vibe Set for MWC
Leaked photos from Gizmodo China appear to show an upcoming Lenovo smartphone, said to be the Vibe Z3 Pro. Like other Vibe models, it is characterised by straight edges and a metallic bumper. Rumoured specs include a 5.5″ display (2560 x 1440), 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 CPU. The phone … Read more
Polariser Prices Continue to Fall
Polariser prices have dropped by about 3% per quarter for ‘the last few quarters’, sources have said, with the trend expected to continue in Q1’15. The decline will slow by Q2. Orders are expected to remain healthy in Q1, but could fall slightly in February during Asia’s Lunar New Year holiday.
DirecTV Market Share Shifts Regions
The DirecTV group will end 2015 with a higher number of pay-TV subscribers in Latin American than in the USA for the first time, according to research from Dataxis. As of Q3’14, US customers represented 51.7% of DirecTV’s 39.1 million global subscribers; the remaining 48.3% were divided between the Caribbean and LATAM. Market share has … Read more
Touch Makers Plan Lower In-Cell Pricing
Touch panel makers in China plan to lower in-cell pricing by 15% – 20% this year, to increase their competitiveness and retain a leading market share, say supply chain sources. More handset vendors in the country are expected to use in-cell touch in mid-range and high-end units this year and will seek competitively-priced solutions. Huawei … Read more
LDM Product Roundup Vol 22 No 6
A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia, supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as MacOS versions from 10.8 to 10.10. Users can use the adapter to send signals from a USB source … Read more
Christie Introduces Lightweight 30K Lumen Projector
At the upcoming ISE in the Amsterdam RAI February 10 -12, Christie Digital will officially introduce its latest projector targeting the Rental and Staging market, the Boxer 4K30 projector. This projector is a 3-DLP projector with 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution and 30,000 center lumens output (29,000 ANSI). The projector uses 1.38″ DMDs and provides … Read more
Waveguide-based Displays Maturing for Augmented Reality Applications
One of the most attractive ways to create an augmented reality image is to simply have a thin, transparent waveguide in front of the eye that can display the desired images or symbols. AR eyewear from Vuzix and Microsoft (who called theirs “HoloLens”) both appear to use a surface relief grating (SRG) approach to extract … Read more
Technologies For Flexible AMOLEDs
A new article published by SID – Information Display discusses the challenges and barriers for creating the flexible AMOLED used in LG’s G Flex smartphone. The article describes the solutions LG developed to make the flexible display. Here is a short summary, for more information, please read the complete article on the SID website. LG … Read more
Computacenter Sells Recycling Business to Arrow
Computacenter has signed an agreement with Arrow Electronics to sell its IT disposal and recycling business, RDC, for £56 million ($85.3 million). RDC is considered to be one of Europe’s largest IT recycling firms but contributed only 1.4% of Computacenter’s total turnover. Under the terms of the agreement, Arrow has also entered into a five … Read more
