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EMEA Public Displays Healthy in Q2

The Public Display market in Europe was 21.6% up on an annual basis but was flat compared to Q1 in Q2 of 2014 according to Meko’s DisplayCast market research service. “We’ve recently revised our PD forecast to be seasonal”, said Bob Raikes, principal analyst of Meko Ltd. “When we started the service, we designed our … Read more

ARM’s Big.Little Evolves at Ineda

A low-power chip, developed by start-up Ineda Systems, has been developed to extend the lifetime of wearable devices. The chip works alongside the main processor. It listens for voice commands at all times and is able to run simple apps. The main processor can thus save energy by spending more time powered down. Ineda is … Read more

China Works to Replace Windows, OSX and Android

The People’s Post and Telecommunications News, of China, says that an OS to rival those from Microsoft, Google and Apple could be deployed by October. The paper quoted the head of an official OS development alliance, Ni Guangnan, who said that the system would appear on desktop devices first. It would then be extended to … Read more

Nvidia and VMware Bring Workstations to Chromebooks

Google and VMware are working with Nvidia to bring workstation-level graphics to Chromebooks. VMware’s Blast software and Nvidia’s Grid (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 3) virtual GPU technology will be used to deliver a virtual Windows desktop, GPU and data centre to the products. It is unclear yet with Chromebook(s) will be the first to … Read more