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Microsoft is still “The Standard” for PC operating systems worldwide, even with all the success of Apple’s OSX and Unix platforms in recent years. Microsoft claims that about 1.5 billion people are using Microsoft OSes today. The company has a long history of upping the OS game year after year, some more successful than others. … Read more
NEOTION, a French high-tech company providing innovative solutions for the international digital TV market, today announced that it has teamed up with Broadpeak and Eutelsat to provide a global solution to enable Free-To-Air or Secured OTT Services for Smartphones, Tablets and 4K screens. With the combination of NEOTION’s DVBeacon platform, Broadpeak’s nanoCDN system and Eutelsat’s … Read more
BETT is Europe’s premier trade show for technology in education, with each year seeing a growing international presence. Many of the company representatives whom we talked to at the show remarked on this. The Nordics and the Netherlands are particularly well-represented, but we heard accents from all over Europe – and even further afield, including … Read more
BenQ America is now shipping the RP840G (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 20) 84″ interactive display. Additionally, BenQ Europe has announced release details for the BL2711U 27″ UltraHD monitor (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 44). It will be available in March for €670 ex VAT. The company has also launched the XL2420G (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) … Read more
Crystal Sky Pictures, an independent film studio, has signed a global licensing agreement with Nanotech Entertainment, under which Nanotech will now distribute Crystal Sky’s UltraHD content on its Ultraflix network. Nanotech has 11 titles under processing for UltraHD.
Avolites (8.K300) will show its new V8 software, running on its own Ai media servers. The software includes a new autoblend feature for projectors and a surface modelling page for the creation of editable 3D sets. Christie (1.H50) will show several new DLP projectors, including one of the first showings of the Roadie 4K45 (Display Monitor … Read more
Joled, the joint venture between Sony, Panasonic and Japan Display, will begin to produce AMOLED panels in 2017, according to sources speaking to the Japan Times. The panels will be sized between 10″ and 20″ and will be for use in laptops and tablets. The company plans to spend ¥100 billion ($844.5 million) on a … Read more
A portable DLP projector from China’s Mego Optoelectronics, the ML131, appeared on the USA’s FCC listings recently, and is available in the country now for $300. Based on Android 4.2, the ML131 can connect to a Wi-Fi network and users can download apps to the 8GB/16GB of internal storage (or a 32GB SD card). The … Read more
Mediterranean countries were added to OVAB Europe’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) last year. Three of these were Italy, Spain and Portugal (the latter two measured together). Italy’s business sentiment was volatile last year, with irritation in the signage industry resulting from the economy (still in recession) and comparatively slow political reforms. After a … Read more
Haier has appointed Online Trade in Russia to distribute its range of smartphones.
Asus chairman Johnny Shih has said that the next iteration of the company’s smartwatch, the Zenwatch, could see a battery life lasting up to seven days. Shih said that Asus considers the chips in most watches as too powerful for the tasks they are used for, so they could be simplified, as could the OS … Read more
Korean media reports say that LG Electronics shipped 59.6 million smartphones worldwide last year: a 25.2% rise from 47.6 million units in 2013.
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