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Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. The US Video Game Industry Is Thriving Right Now Chromecast (Google TV) is no longer forcing HDR output A Book You Remember, a Kindle You Forget NYT $$ … Read more
While much of the world is still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of tablets and Chromebooks remain on fire. Tablets had an outstanding first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) with 55.2% year-over-year growth and shipments totaling 39.9 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. … Read more
Apple’s iPad Pro can drive miniLED display growth in 2021 and beyond. It could start a new wave of demand for miniLED-based IT products (tablets, notebooks and monitors). MiniLED TVs introduced by Samsung, LGE, TCL and others at the beginning of 2021 have already started expectations of growth. Apple’s miniLED-based iPAD Pro will strengthen this … Read more
What They Say In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of IMax said that it expects a strong rebound after the pandemic in Japan and plans to almost triple (from 39 now to 100) its theatres in the country by 2024. The firm has done a deal with Toho Co for five of the studio’s … Read more
Sharp NEC Display Solutions, a global leader in the projector and display market, announced its upgraded P Series large format displays. The professional display lineup provides a wide color gamut panel, full metal chassis and advanced feature-set for effective and memorable UHD digital signage. These displays are ideal for professional applications in finance, healthcare, restaurant, … Read more
What They Say During Facebook’s Q1 2021 earnings call, Marki Zuckerberg highlighted the continued investment in AR & VR as a key to ‘the next computing platform’. In a comment that was aimed at rivals he said “Quest 2 is doing better than we expected, even after the holiday season. We continue to see good … Read more
Isamu Akasaki in 2014 (cropped from Image source)What They Say On the 1st April, Professor. Isamu Akasaki, the Nobel Prize winning developer of blue LEDs, died in Nagoya Japan. He was 92. He won the Nobel Prize in 2014 along with Dr. Amano, a student of his at Nagoya University and Shuji Nakamura, who was … Read more
What They Say ISE has decided to cancel the Munich and Amsterdam events that it was planning after the full Barcelona event was modified to four regional events. The events in Barcelona and London are still expected to go ahead on the 1st and 2nd of June and the 23rd and 24th of June, respectively. … Read more
EMRight Technology, an affiliated company of ViewSonic, announced that it has been added to Google’s approved vendor list (AVL), thereby entering the Chromebook supply chain and the education market. EMRight Technology, an affiliated company of ViewSonic, announced that it has been added to Google’s approved vendor list (AVL), thereby entering the Chromebook supply chain and … Read more
What They Say EMRight Technology, an affiliated company of ViewSonic, said it has been approved as a supplier by Google and can enter the Chromebook supply chain with its EMR and capacitive touch pen systems. In 2017, it developed an active capacitive stylus pen, conforming with the Microsoft Pen Protocol (MPP), and earned Windows HLK … Read more
The global smartphone market posted record first-quarter revenues driven by strong revenue growth of top five OEMs according to research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. The annual growth was on a lower base of the same quarter of 2020 when COVID-19 impacted China and parts of the US and Europe. Shipments in countries like Europe, … Read more
What They Say A group from three UK universities has developed a LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles that is intended to help road safety by providing additional information to a driver. A paper detailing the research was published here. In the paper, the display is described as follows: The LiDAR data … Read more
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