Envivio Chosen as Awards Finalist
Envivio has been named as a finalist in the 2014 Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition. The company was chosen for its Envivio Nuage software-as-a-service video delivery solution.
Estimote Turns Objects Into ‘Nearables’
Estimote is a beacon company that has taken the technology to a new form factor: stickers. These ‘tiny super beacons’ were announced in August but have just begun to be shipped. The Estimote Stickers have a battery life of around a year and are backwards-compatible with the company’s SDKs, apps and cloud service. Beacons add … Read more
FCC Delays TV Spectrum Auction until 2016
The FCC has now announced a delay of its auction of UHF spectrum until 2016. Through an announcement in late October, the Commission is apparently reacting to a move by broadcasters to block or delay the planned 2015 auction proceedings. Earlier this year, the FCC released a Report and Order (“RO”) adopting rules to implement … Read more
Flexible Displays Will Grow 900% in 2015
The flexible display market (those that can be bent and folded when active, and are manufactured on flexible substrates and/or using flexible processes) will grow 900% next year, compared to 2014. Charles Annis of DisplaySearch writes that this rise is being enabled by growth in flexible manufacturing capacity, as both LG Display and Samsung increase … Read more
Flextronics Result 31/10/2014
Flextronics has reported its second quarter results, posting a net profit of $138.9 million on turnover of $6.5 billion. In Q2 of the previous year the company’s net profit was $118.2 million and turnover reached $6.4 billion. In the first six months of the year, the company’s net profit was $312.9 million on turnover of … Read more
Fraunhofer Investigates Flexible Lighting
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding an OLED project at Fraunhofer FEP. The R2D2 project will investigate production processes and technologies for manufacturing flexible OLEDs. R2D2 is primarily focused on lighting applications. These types of OLEDs have been fabricated on rigid glass substrates in the past. Fraunhofer believes that OLED lights … Read more
Freesync to Arrive in 2014
There have been conflicting reports over when the first Freesync monitors (AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s G-Sync) will be launched. We have heard both Q1’15 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) and Q4’14 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42). AMD has now revealed that the first UltraHD units equipped with the technology will be launched by … Read more
Fujitsu Result 31/10/2014
Fujitsu Limited reported a second quarter net profit of ¥17.2 billion ($150.1 million), ¥6.5 billion ($56.7 million) lower than the second quarter of last year. Turnover for the quarter was ¥1.1 trillion ($9.6 billion), down 2.4% year on year.
G Flex Mini’ Spotted in Factory Visit
A journalist from Israeli website YNet recently visited LG’s phone factory in Korea, and appears to have spotted an unannounced model. The reporter wrote that it “seems like the G Flex…only smaller”. LG did not deny speculation that it is a mini version of the G Flex.
Gefen Extends UltraHD to 100m
Gefen’s new extenders use HDBaseT to deliver UltraHD (30fps) and power signals over a distance of up to 100m over a single cable. They both carry 7.1 channels of lossless audio, as well as control signals (RS232 and IR). The 4k Ultra HD ELR-POL Extender w/RS-232, Ethernet and IR (EXT-UHD-CAT5-ELRPOL) carries ethernet signals as well … Read more
Gefen Scales for Post-Production
Gefen is ready to launch its new scaler/converter, the EXT-HDVGA-3G-SC. The unit converts HDMI or VGA video signals to SDI (including 3G-SDI and single-link HD-SDI) for post-production and broadcast applications. As well as conversion, the EXT-HDVGA-3G-SC can embed HDMI or analogue L/R audio into the SDI stream. Video can also be scaled, up to 1920 … Read more
Gefen Updates Legacy Systems
Gefen aims to bridge the gap between modern and legacy systems with new scalers/converters. Each unit supports Gefen’s Syner-G software suite, which provides EDID management options and ‘ensures easy configuration’. The HDMI & VGA to 3GSDI Scaler/Converter (EXT-HDVGA-3G-SC) supports HDMI, DVI and VGA. Signals are scaled and output as 3G-SDI or single-link HD-SDI. Resolutions up … Read more
