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SkoolLive Expands Kiosks to South Arizona

SkoolLive works with about 2,000 schools across the USATwo school districts in south Arizona will roll out advertising kiosks from SkoolLive to select schools over the coming year. During a trial period, Vail district will put 10 kiosks in two schools for at least 12 months, while Sunnyside will roll out five kiosks to two … Read more

NEC Tours Across DACH

NEC Display Solutions will take a roadshow through the DACH region in March and April. The ‘A World of Visual Experience’ show will begin in Zurich on 4th and 5th March, before moving to Munich (11th – 12th); Dusseldorf (18th – 19th); Hamburg (25th – 26th); Frankfurt (15th – 16th April), Berlin (22nd – 23rd) … Read more

iBoardTouch Directs Itself at Education

iBoardTouch was a new name to us at BETT 2015. The company is mainly interested in large LCD touch displays which are made in China and now are being sold through its own sales company in the UK, which has appointed a number of education specialists to sell and support the products. Its “special sauce” … Read more

Avnet’s Q2 Sales Drop 4.6%

Avnet Technology Solutions, the enterprise technology business of Avnet Inc., reported a 4.6% year on year drop in turnover in Q2 to $3.1 billion. By region, sales in the Americas were little changed YoY at $1.8 billion but in EMEA and Asia, sales fell 8.5% and 13.4% respectively to $856.8 million and $409 million. Last … Read more

Qualcomm Leak Shows 810 Successor

A Twitter-based source, Leakfly, has shared preliminary specifications for Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 820 and 600 family processors. The roadmap document shows that the 820 uses 64-bit ‘TS2’ cores, which are based on a Samsung FinFET 14nm process. The device apparently does not use ARM’s Big.Little architecture but features an Adreno 530 GPU and LTE-A Cat … Read more

Toray Phosphor Sheet Raises LED Brightness

Japan’s Nikkei newspaper claims that Toray Industries has developed a phosphor sheet that can raise WLED brightness by 10%, without an increase in input power. The sheet is intended for use with WLEDs formed using blue LEDs and either yellow phosphors or red and green phosphors. It is made by dispersing phosphor particles in a binder, … Read more

Sony Wants to Address the Wearable Market with Partnerships

PC World published an article on Sony’s appearance at the Wearable Device Technology Expo in Tokyo.  Kaz Tajima, senior vice president at Sony Mobile Communications, said that Sony is looking for collaboration partners for new products and services for the future wearable market. The article says that Sony is following this idea of co-operation instead of … Read more

LG Display Pushes Flexible OLED Display Development

LG Display has published  a new video pushing its development of flexible OLED display. The video is 5 min long and more of a marketing piece than a real interview.   The video shows an interview with Dr. Soo-young Yoon from LG Display and promises a look behind the curtains of LG’s new flexible OLED … Read more

Amazon Will Produce Original Movies for Theaters

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Home entertainment is based on content creation for either TV or movie theaters. While the content for TV is often produced by broadcasters around the world and contains news, sports and all other kinds of relatively short video content, movies are a different animal. They require higher initial investments that are only to be returned … Read more

Ericsson Sues Apple over Patent Licensing

Ericsson has sued Apple in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over the use of smartphone technology. According to a press release from Ericsson, the lawsuit follows a lawsuit from Apple against Ericsson in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California which found that it does not infringe … Read more