LG Signs Tech Data for Hotel TVs
In the UK, Tech Data has been selected to distribute LG’s full range of TVs for hotels.
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
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
Samsung has no Interest in Buying BlackBerry
According to The Wall Street Journal Samsung is not interested in buying BlackBerry at this point in time. J.K. Shin, Samsung’s mobile phone business leader said that Samsung is talking to BlackBerry to extend their business relationship. Samsung values the relationship with BlackBerry but has similar relationships with other enterprise security companies that allows each company … Read more
DTG’s 4k Plugfests turn spotlight on HEVC streams
The DTG’s UK UHD Forum has held its second 4k Plugfest with a focus on content streamed in 4k over satellite, IP and DTT to UHD TVs and set-top boxes. This DTG members-only event brought together platforms operators, TV manufacturers, audio-video content providers and broadcasters, equipment manufacturers, and retailers to investigate HEVC UHD interoperability. Testing was … Read more
