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China’s Smartphone Market Narrowed its Decline to -3.6% in Q3 2019, IDC Reports

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According to IDC’s Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments in China stood at 98.9 million units in the third quarter of 2019, down 3.6% year-on-year. This marked a narrower decline than the first half of the year, in part due to Huawei’s strong performance. “Huawei gained share at the expense of almost all other market … Read more

Augmented/Virtual Reality in Healthcare, a Success Story?

When we talk about augmented and virtual reality applications we always agree that healthcare is one of the segments where the AR / VR advantages are beyond any discussion of cost effectiveness. From medical training to treating a variety of illnesses and syndromes the stories mostly praise the effects AR / VR has on patients. … Read more

Are QLEDs Still Competitive in the Luxury TV Market? (Part 2)

In Part 2 of the article, (part 1 is here) I will discuss the differences in luminance between LCD TVs and OLED TVs and the effect of FALD on the implementation of HDR. Part 1 investigated how QLED and OLEDs compete in front of screen performance and how QLEDs use various techniques to improve viewing … Read more

Are QLEDs Still Competitive in the Luxury TV Market? (Part 1)

This is a two-part article. Part 1 investigates how QLED and OLEDs compete in front of screen performance and how QLEDs use various techniques to improve viewing angle in 4K and 8K TVs and the trade-offs selected for color rendering, resolution and contrast ratio. Part 1 In 2019, Samsung and other TV brands will likely … Read more

Osram Recommends Current Takeover Offer From Ams

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Osram has concluded a comprehensive business combination agreement with ams and recommends its shareholders accept the current takeover offer. “After intensive negotiations, we have agreed on many decisive framework conditions for the future of Osram and our employees,” said Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG. “The most important thing is that the employees at … Read more

Leyard and Planar Expand Rental and Staging Portfolio with Leyard VS Series LED Displays

Leyard and Planar, global leaders in visualization products, announced the launch of the Leyard® VS Series, a full-featured series of rental and staging LED video wall displays built for easy assembly and transport, adaptability to diverse environments and fast serviceability. The new product line will be on display at Live Design International (LDI) 2019. Offered … Read more

Nanolumi Introduces Industry’s First Perovskite Quantum Dot (PeQD) Colour Enhancement Film for QD Displays with High Brightness and Over 90% Rec. 2020 Colour Spectrum Cover

Nanolumi, a Singapore-based advanced materials company producing stable, scalable, high colour performance quantum dots (QD), announced the launch of Chameleon® G Film, the industry’s first cadmium-free, perovskite quantum dot (PeQD) colour enhancement film for QD displays with exceptional brightness and unprecedented colour performance of over 90% Rec. 2020, 99.X% Adobe RGB, 99.X% DCI-P3. PeQD is … Read more

Gary Shapiro and CES Unveiled

According to Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, CES Unveiled in New York on November 7th is the start of the “CES Season.” Never mind Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas or New Years; it is time to start thinking about CES 2020. Also, never mind that there had previously been two other CES … Read more

FlexEnable Acquires Merck’s OTFT Materials Portfolio for Flexible Displays

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, has acquired Merck’s portfolio of best-in-class, high-performance Organic Thin-Film Transistor (OTFT) materials, including revolutionary and highly-patented organic semiconductors and dielectrics. The deal makes FlexEnable the first company to offer display manufacturers both the only OTFT materials which are proven to have higher performance … Read more

Nagra and Kaon Introduce Android TV Streaming Solution for Pay-TV Operators

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, together with KAON, a world-leading provider in broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) and connected home solutions, announced that they are joining forces in a new streaming platform designed to accelerate time-to-market of Android TV-based services for pay-TV … Read more