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At a supply chain conference in January, Acer CEO Jason Chen said that the company will continue to look for business opportunities in the smartphone market. The smartphone business is not profitable for Acer yet, and the company was approached by ‘a high-end smartphone vendor’ to discuss an acquisition – but Chen said that, while … Read more
There will be more than a quarter of a billion connected cars on the road by 2020, making them a major element in the Internet of Things, says Gartner. The IoT will grow 30% this year, to 4.9 billion connected devices. By 2020, that number will reach 25 billion. “The increased consumption and creation of digital … Read more
US retailers said that the Super Bowl was helping them to sell UltraHD TVs before the event – despite no broadcaster transmitting in the format. Best Buy’s TV sales volumes were up 2.6% YoY over Christmas, and Target experienced a double-digit lift in its sales over the same period. Brian Markwalter, of the CEA, said … Read more
TCO Certified, with Hyundai IBT, has cancelled a certificate granted to Hyundai’s P227D 21.5″ LCD monitor. The monitor was certified as compliant with TCO Certified Displays 6 in October 2013, at which point Hyundai had a 12-month grace period to prove compliance. The company has not done so and so TCO has withdrawn the certificate. … Read more
The International Chemical Secretariat, Chemsec, has left the European Commission working group charged with updating the list of banned substances in the Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS) in electronics. Chemsec said that it left the group due to a disagreement on whether to phase out brominated and chlorinated flame retardants and PVC (Chemsec favoured not phasing them … Read more
We have been reporting diligently on every new virtual reality device being developed, but we have had less to report on content for such devices. Nurulize is developing virtual realities that can be experienced by wearing a virtual reality headset. So far the US-based company has been developing two realities, Rise VR and Desert Home. … Read more
Continental, the German based automotive supplier, has shown a curved AMOLED display for in-car use as the main information display. The news was published first by OLED-Info.com and hints at either an LG or Samsung panel as possible sources. (This seems to be a good guess for the moment.) The following image shows what the … Read more
Sulon has been developing its head-mounted display solution since 2012 when the Canada-based company was founded. While it has meanwhile worked on a developer kit for game developers, the headset is now available for pre-order on the company website. Source: Sulon The company calls its headset a “spatially aware, wearable head mounted computing platform”. There are … Read more
The publisher of Display Daily, Meko Ltd, has an unofficial saying “Don’t forget the people” – designed to remind us that, as I like to say “A display without a person has no purpose”. I often attend display events where nobody talks about the users or the human factors of display use. The phrase also … Read more
The relentless smartphone growth in the Asia-Pacific region is set to slow dramatically in 2015. Asia-Pacific’s growth is set to drop from 43% in 2013 to 17% in 2014 and then to just 10 % in 2015, largely driven as ever by China, according to market intelligence firm ABI Research. “A key driver of China’s … Read more
QD Vision, Inc., the leading manufacturer of quantum dot solutions for display products, announced that the European Commission has granted an exemption to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS 2) Directive for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE). The ruling confirms that QD Vision’s Color IQ™ quantum dot technology is beneficial for the environment. As stated in … Read more
According to an article published by Digitimes, Samsung’s OLED panel pricing for handsets is approaching LCD pricing levels and will reach parity in 2015. The report continues that in 2013 the price premium per Samsung OLED panel was in the $10 to $15 range compared to LCD panels. In 2014 this premium had already contracted to … Read more
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