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US private equity firm GTCR has partnered with Adams Outdoor to acquire Fairway Media Group from ACON Investments and MidOcean Partners. Fairway is one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the US, operating approximately 20,000 bulletins, posters and digital billboard faces across key metro areas in the southeast, southwest and midwest regions. Financial terms were not … Read more
The Graphics & Media Lab CMC of Lomonosov Moscow State University has developed ‘a practical algorithm for automatic channel mismatch detection in S3D video’. The algorithm was used to evaluate more than 100 S3D films in ‘a reasonable amount of time’. 22% of tested content contained at least one scene with channel mismatch; the results show that such … Read more
On the first day of the BETT show, HP launched a variety of new mobile devices, which we detailed in Mobile Display Monitor in Vol 22 No 4 (HP Focuses on Business for Mobility). Two of these were education models: the Pro Slate 10 EE Education Edition and Pro Tablet 10 EE Education Edition. The Pro … Read more
Amazon held a one-day sale of the Fire Phone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25) in the UK last week, cutting the price of the 32GB model to £85 ($130) and the 64GB to £125 ($190). The phones were locked to the O2 network. It is possible that the sale was a way to clear stock … Read more
Sources have told Forbes that the rumoured HTC smartwatch (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 41) is, in fact, a fitness band. It has been linked to the company’s recent partnership with Under Armour (Rumors of new HTC device, Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4). The band will apparently be launched at MWC.
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
Haier has added Spanish distributor Esprinet for its range of smartphones, tablets and its new line of Android-based LCD TVs.
In the UK, Tech Data has been selected to distribute LG’s full range of TVs for hotels.
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 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 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
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
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