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Good News and Bad News for FPD Making in Japan

Japan, of course, was a pioneering region for flat panel display development and in the last couple of weeks there has been good news and bad news about developments in the country. The Bad News The bad news, although not surprising, was that Panasonic has announced the end of production and development of its LCD … Read more

Pablo Escobar’s Brother Releases $349 Foldable Smartphone

Pablo Escobar’s biological brother, Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, has started production of a mainstream completely foldable smartphone which features a unique flexible screen allowing a user to fold their regular phone into a tablet size. The Escobar Fold 1 phone come at a retail price of $349 and is currently available exclusively on www.EscobarInc.com/Fold1. … Read more

99% Uptime Over Nearly Two Decades: U.S. Air Force Extends Collins Aerospace Contract to Support JSTARS Aircrew Simulators for Another 10 Years

After nearly two decades of providing sustainment support, Collins Aerospace Systems has received a 10-year extension from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide services critical to maintaining the training system for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. The system includes full flight simulators and navigator training terminals located at Robins … Read more

Barco and Project: Syntropy Demonstrating JFSTT at I/ITSEC 2019

Barco, a global leader in visualization solutions for the Training & Simulation market, is proud to showcase its latest FL40 4K LED projectors in a Joint Fire Support Team Trainer (JFSTT) together with partners project: syntropy and ESG DEFENCE + PUBLIC SECURITY at I/ITSEC 2019. The same partners involved with the delivery of ESG’s Joint … Read more

Philips Professional Display Solutions and Nenda to Launch Next Generation TV Experience for the Hotel Market

Philips Professional Display Solutions is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Stockholm-based TV innovator, Nenda, to bring a new streaming service for hotel rooms that will revolutionise the way guests watch TV. This exciting collaboration will bring the powerful features of Philips Professional Display Solutions’ MediaSuite Pro TV –Android-powered, Google certified and with Chromecast … Read more

QDs on chip are here… but not there yet

Quantum Dots on chip (LED chip that is) is a technology that I’ve written about before, in 2018 and 2017. For those of you not familiar with this approach, it’s basically akin to replacing the phosphor in traditional down-converted LEDs (Blue + phosphor = white). Sounds simple, right? Historically speaking, this has been difficult for … Read more

Developed Micro LED Display

Japan Display Inc. announced that it has developed a prototype micro LED display, which is a powerful candidate for the next generation displays, which will be exhibited, as a reference, at the 29th LCD, organic EL and sensor technology “FINTECH JAPAN 2019” exhibition, held in Makuhari Messe between December 4th (Wed.) and the 6th (Fri.). … Read more

World’s Biggest Duty Free Area Chooses Absen

Set to become the world’s largest airport, the US$11bn (€9.6bn) Istanbul Airport is located on the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey, where it will eventually handle up to 200 million passengers a year – eclipsing the former Ataturk Airport. At the heart of the new airport terminal, is the newly constructed Unifree Duty-Free area, which at … Read more

Samsung Looking Beyond QD OLED

There has been a lot of discussion about why Samsung is going for QDOLED technology, given the complications, the technology risk and the amount of money involved. Several times I have found myself thinking “They must know something that we don’t”. It turns out that they certainly do – as was detailed in an article … Read more

Samsung Fellows’ Study on the Potential Commercialization of QLEDs Published in Leading Science Journal, ‘Nature’

A duo of researchers and fellows at Samsung Electronics have, in an industry-first, proved the potential of Quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) for commercial purposes in a new study. On November 27 (London), this study on the commercialization of QLEDs was published by Nature, the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. The authors of this groundbreaking … Read more

BenQ Launches Cross-Platform Interactive Flat Panel Series for the Workplace

Leading display manufacturer BenQ launches the Duoboard, a platform-agnostic all-in-oneInteractive Flat Panel (IFP) display series designed for the modern meeting room. Creating aninteractive meeting room experience for any device, this flexible display is perfect for corporateenvironments. Available in two sizes, 65-inch (CP6501K) and 86-inch (CP8601K) with 4K resolution, the Duoboardfeatures BenQ’s new Collaboration+ suite of … Read more

Commercial Refresh Ahead of Windows 7 EOS Will Continue to Keep EMEA PC Market Afloat Despite CPU Shortages, Says IDC

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Shipments of EMEA traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) will total 72.1 million in 2019, a 0.6% YoY growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). While weakness in the consumer segment will continue to constrict overall growth, commercial strength will keep the EMEA PC market afloat. “The Western European PC market continued … Read more