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Microsoft COO Kevin Turner told The Nikkei newspaper that Windows 10 will be released in autumn 2015. The new OS is considered a “complete reboot” of the software, and will include a personal assistant (probably Cortana, which is also featured on Windows Phone). Turner said, “The things people love about Windows 7, we will have … Read more
The latest update to the Windows 10 Technical Preview has added native support for advanced video and audio codecs. These include MKV, HEVC and lossless audio format FLAC. Display Daily Comments This may help to reduce the number of codecs that need to be added as plug-ins. Video on PCs has never become a really … Read more
Electronica takes place in Munich every two years. A late invitation to speak at the SID event in Rio meant that Display Monitor’s plans had to change on short notice, so Tom attended instead of Bob. Major display makers, as we noticed at the 2012 show, were absent. Electronica has become more about industrial electronics … Read more
Fujitsu holds an annual “Fujitsu Forum” event in Munich and this is the second year that we have attended. It’s a three day event (one day for press only) and we attended just for one day. As well as the business sessions, the event celebrates the Bavarian heritage with a huge “Oktoberfest” party. Most of … Read more
This was this writer’s first visit to Latin Display which this year took place in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Although mostly dominated by Brazilian visitors, others came from around the region. Abinfo is a research organisation that co-ordinates activity in R&D in areas of informatics, life sciences, technology and fully supports the Latin Display … Read more
The 2014 Printed Electronics Conference (Santa Clara, CA, November 18-20) included a half day tutorial (masterclass) covering OLED, bi-stable and flexible displays, as well as OLED and LED lighting. One of the morning’s speakers, Dr. Guillaume Chansin of IDTechEx, presented his view of the current state of the OLED, bi-stable and flexible displays markets and … Read more
NYC Television Week is the main event for the NY broadcast industry addressing the business and creative side of TV. It is held parallel to the CCW and SATCON conferences and exhibitions, that address more of the technology side of TV. Part of the NYC Television Week was the Next TV Summit discussing the future … Read more
Brian David Johnson of Intel was the next speaker (Intel is a Diamond Sponsor for the Fujitsu Forum event). Johnson is a futurist and principal engineer and his topic is “How to design the future”. His job is to look 10 to 15 years ahead and imagine how people will interact with IT. It’s important, … Read more
Samsung had a small exhibition space at the DPAA Video Everywhere conference and was showing a 10″ and a 95″ LED LCD as the company’s smallest and largest offering in the professional display space. Samsung offers several lines of displays tailored for the respective markets and market segments. While most displays are rated for 18h … Read more
The military training and simulation industry has been very good for participants for the last decade as the need for hardware and software to train for many operations increased. But as budgets decline, many of these providers began to offer training and simulation services to offset declines in hardware and software. This trend is now … Read more
Randy Lawson Principal Analyst at IHS presented his findings on the technology and market outlook for touch sensors and touch enabled devices at the event. Lawson opened his presentation with the data below, which illustrates how the end-use market expansion for touch enabled devices including handsets, tablets and mobile PCs is driving the sales of … Read more
The 2014 Printed Electronics Conference included an interesting presentation by Prof. Gyoujin Cho, of Sunchon National University, Korea entitled, Fully Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Gravure Printed TFT Backplanes for Signage and Sensors. In describing his presentation Prof. Cho made reference to the term “Smart Wallpaper” which is how he envisions the goal of his research. Prof. Cho … Read more
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