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New Lockdowns Will Keep the EMEA Tablet Market Afloat, says IDC

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) tablet market is projected to increase 3.6% YoY in 4Q20, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The full year 2020 is anticipated to grow at 10.1% YoY in EMEA, the highest YoY performance for the tablet market in EMEA since 2013. Education will continue to generate important volumes … Read more

EMEA Smartphones Bounced Back in 3Q Before New Lockdowns, Says IDC

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The EMEA smartphone market threw off the coronavirus blues in the third quarter, bouncing back to register some growth over the same period in 2019, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Total smartphone volumes were 93.1 million, up 2.1% on 3Q19, for a value of $27.7 billion. This contrasted with … Read more

Plastic Logic Displays to Drive RoadAds Interactive’s Digital Vehicle Advertising

Plastic Logic, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), is partnering with RoadAds interactive to provide its customers with mobile vehicle displays based on flexible oTFT-based ePaper technology. RoadAds interactive is planning to use Plastic Logic’s innovative 32in displays for ‘digital billboards’ on various vehicles such as vans, trucks … Read more

ViewSonic Launches the ColorPro VP68a Series of Pantone Validated Monitors

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, announces the introduction of two new Pantone validated monitors to the ColorPro VP68a Series, including the VP2768a (27”) and VP2468a (24”). Both come standard with out-of-box colour accuracy, colour blindness modes, and USB-C one-cable solution. “ViewSonic’s professional monitor VP series provides consistent and accurate colour performance … Read more

Insight Media Launches Light Field / Holographic Webinar Series

“There’s a major shift underway of a magnitude similar to the shift from photographs to film or radio to television, and that’s the shift from flat media to holographic light field media, Said Shawn Frayne, CEO of Looking Glass Factory. “New advanced holographic light field display technologies are meeting a moment where millions of people … Read more

PMA Research Tracking Shows Modest Year-Over-Year Uptick in Distribution Channel Sales of Flat Panel Displays

PMA Research (PMA), the worldwide market information experts on large displays, has published their latest sell-through tracking report on large-format (32-inch and larger) flat panel displays being sold by leading U.S. Distributors who typically serve commercial markets. Total large-format flat panel display unit sales through the U.S. distribution channel fell by high single-digits in October … Read more

Covid Cannot Stop Science! (QD Forum and Phosphor Global Summit 2020)

Originally scheduled for March of 2020, the virtual QD Forum and Phosphor Global Summit went off without a hitch in early November this year. What I love about this conference is the mix of industry professionals, super-smart academics, and startups with new ideas. It’s a much more manageable conference too, usually a few hundred people … Read more

Cleaning Things Up II: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age

As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces in the education sector. One educator summarizes the covid-cleaning predicament in schools and universities in this way: “The problem with the virus … Read more

NetRange VISNOS Launched to Drive Smart TV Adoption in Regions where Cost is at an Absolute Premium

NetRange MMH GmbH, the global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, announced that it has launched its cloud-powered VISNOS (Virtual Smart TV NetRange OS) platform to slash CE device manufacturers’ Smart TV costs and enable existing low-powered TVs to receive Smart TV services. The NetRange VISNOS platform removes the requirement for a … Read more