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The Korean government will put more than double the money towards OLEDs and flexible displays in 2015 than it did this year. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology has announced a KRW12.5 billion ($11.2 million) budget for display R&D. There will be nine subjects covered by the new R&D budget. ‘Development of core technology’, … Read more
India’s KSS has entered the high resolution space with a Sony deal. KSS aims to install 3,000 DCI-4k cinema screens over the next 2-3 years. Over the next 18 months, it will invest INR1.5 billion ($24.4 million) in the purchase of 270 projectors.
Ever drop your phone and wonder why the cover glass survived or broke? Corning did too and in our exclusive tour of their facility in Corning New York, we visited several labs where the company explained all about how the glass breaks, ways to evaluate the mechanisms and the results for its newly developed Gorilla … Read more
Asian sources say that Microsoft is developing a larger Surface tablet, with a diagonal of between 13″ and 14″. Reports claim that the decision was taken based on an improvement in sales of the Surface Pro 3, which at 12″ was larger than the 10.1″ of the preceding models. In its recent 345s (Display Monitor … Read more
Microsoft has dropped the Nokia branding from its Lumia smartphones, and now images of the first ‘Microsoft Lumia’ handset have appeared online. Posted on Chinese social network Weibo, the images show a device referred to as the RM-1090. It has, apparently, passed MIIT certification for distribution in China. The design is very similar to the … Read more
News of a new Samsung phone, the Galaxy A7, has been leaked after being approved by China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Centre. According to the leak, the A7 – code-named the SM-A7009 – will have a 5.5″ display and 1920 x 1080 resolution. It will also be Samsung’s thinnest phone to-date, at just 6.3mm thick. A … Read more
The LeapTV console and LeapPad tablet, from Leapfrog, have won Oppenheim Toy Portfolio awards. Both were honoured with the Gold Seal and Special Needs Adaptable Product (SNAP) awards; the LeapTV also won a Platinum Seal award.
Lenovo Group posted a net profit in Q2 of $262 million on turnover of $10.5 billion, which compares with a net profit of $220 million on turnover of $9.8 billion in the second quarter of last year. Lenovo’s net profit in the first half of this fiscal year increased 21% year on year to $476 … Read more
A new curved TV has been launched by LG – but with LCD technology, not OLED. The UC970 is available in EMEA now in 55″ (55UC970V) and 65″ (65UC970V) sizes. The UC970 is supplied with LG’s Magic Remote and WebOS operating system. They feature passive 3D, HEVC decoding and multi-channel speakers. According to LG, the … Read more
LG Display has posted an article explaining some of the details behind its plastic OLED (P-OLED) technology, used on the G Watch R (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). The company also shared a roadmap for flexible OLEDs. A P-OLED is made using a plastic (polyimide (PI)) substrate. The PI material remains stable at high … Read more
LG Electronics has announced the appointment of new executives to lead the LG Home Entertainment and LG Mobile Communications companies. Juno Cho, who currently serves as president of the holding company LG Corp. will take on the role of president and CEO of LG’s mobile business with Dr. Jong-seok Park moving into the newly created … Read more
LG’s 55EA9800 OLED TV has been named the overall ‘Best TV of The Year’ by USA Today’s Reviewed.com. The display was also named as ‘Best OLED TV of The Year’. 12 of LG’s products made the ‘Best of 2014’ awards; as well as the EA9800, the consumer electronics units were the 55EA8800 OLED TV (‘Best … Read more
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