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Hisense has named Andre Lange to the position of commercial director in Germany. He joins Hisense from German telecommunications company E-Plus, having also previously worked for Samsung and Loewe in Germany. Lange will also form part of the three member board of Hisense Germany, together with CEO Morris Luo and financial manager Daniel Shi. The … Read more
Samsung is reported to have closed its flagship Samsung Experience Store at the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre in London. The company said that its remaining nine Experience Stores in the UK will remain open. Samsung opened the Westfield store in 2013 as a showcase for its TVs, smartphones and tablets.
Global shipments of diagnostic displays are forecast to grow at a 5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), between 2014 and 2018. According to the latest DisplaySearch Specialty Displays Report, larger high-resolution wide-aspect-ratio displays are starting to become more popular, but 21.3” displays had a 67% share of unit shipments and a 65% share of revenues … Read more
Touch specialist, TPK Holding, said sales for 2014 were down 18.6% from 2013 at NT$129.5 billion ($4.1 billion). Sales in the final month of the year were flat month on month at NT$13.3 billion ($420 million), though for the fourth quarter, TPK achieved a 21.4% sequential increase in sales at NT$39.6 billion ($1.2 billion).
JOLED, the joint venture company established by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Japan Display (JDI), Sony, and Panasonic last summer, has now been officially established and started operating. The new company was formed last August with the aim of producing small and medium sized OLED displays (JOLED Inc – the Japanese Answer for AMOLED). INCJ is … Read more
Radiant Opto-Electronics saw sales drop 28.5% year on year in December to NT$4.8 billion ($151.6 million), taking sales for the year to NT$51.4 billion ($1.6 billion), 19% lower than 2013. Shipments of BLUs for LCD monitors increased 41.3% sequentially in December to 479,000 units, while for TV use, shipments were almost 30% higher at 35,000 … Read more
Lenovo has completed the integration of IBM’s X86 server business in the UK and Ireland. Although the original deal between IBM and Lenovo was closed last October, the companies said at the time that employees and business operations in the EMEA region would be migrated from IBM to Lenovo over a period of a several … Read more
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) ended the year with a fall in both sales and panel shipments. December’s revenue of NT$4.5 billion ($142 million) was 8.8% lower than November and down 8.9% year on year, taking sales for the year to NT$56.4 billion ($1.8 billion), 3.9% lower than the previous year. The company’s large panel shipments … Read more
I hate fighting 3D Zombies. As soon as you dispatch one, another grotesque figure chins up, and here we go again. Another funny thing about zombies is it always seems like they sneak up on you. Of course, the zombie I am talking about is the long-buried yet persistent 3D canard: “3D is bad for our … Read more
A new consumer version of ODG (Osterhout Design Group) augmented reality technology was revealed at last week’s CES show in Las Vegas with the promise of a landmark styling in the what’s-old-is-new-again approach to its latest technology. The company said it turned to perhaps the most popular sunglass design in history, the RayBan Wayfarer for … Read more
A team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Riverside, CA) lead by Wenshou Wang is developing rewriteable paper. It is based on the use of color-switching dyes and an ultra violet light to write an image on a physical medium. At this time, the medium is either a glass or plastic film. The old … Read more
On Christmas Eve, Primeview USA Inc. (New York, NY) announced it was introducing an OLED monitor targeting industrial applications. The product is being introduced in partnership with LG Display (LGD) and, of course, uses LGD glass. Primeview PRV55OLED industrial display The initial product is a 55” industrial display, model number PRV55OLED, which will be available for delivery in Q1 … Read more
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