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Chrome-Based Digital Signage Grew 15.9% Year-on-Year in 2018 Q2

As reported by Digitimes, new data from IDC indicates that digital signage demand is growing, after shipments in the second quarter of 2018 reached 871,300 units, 10% more than the first quarter and a year-on-year growth of 15.9%. IDC predicts shipments of 3.5 million units in 2018. Meanwhile, AOpen has predicted that shipments of Chrome-based … Read more

Netflix Adds Nearly 7 Million New Subscribers

Netflix added 6.96 million new subscribers during the third quarter of 2018, bringing its global total to 137 million. 1.09 million of these new subscribers were added in the US alone. The company predicts a further increase of 9.4 million subscribers for the fourth quarter, an increase of 13% year-on-year. Netflix also announced third-quarter profits … Read more

80% of U.S. Cable Subscribers Also Stream Digital Video

Telaria, Inc., (NYSE:TLRA), the complete software platform for publishers to manage premium video advertising, and Adobe Advertising Cloud, the industry’s first end-to-end, independent platform for managing advertising across traditional TV and digital formats, have released their ‘Inside The Minds of Cord-Cutters and Cable-Keepers’ study. The findings illustrate the experiences, behaviors, and television usage among a … Read more

Study: 80% of US Cable Subscribers Also Stream Digital Video

Telaria, a software platform for the management of video advertising, and Adobe Advertising Cloud, an independent platform for managing advertising across traditional TV and digital formats, have released a new study which finds that nearly 80% of cable users also use streaming video platforms and almost a quarter of their viewing time is spent there. … Read more

E-Waste Day – You Just Missed it

Vacation! The time for relaxation and forgetting about the daily news for a while. Nevertheless it is kind of funny how our daily routine still kicks in when we see something unexpected and how unrelated experiences trigger some reflection of our daily thinking. This happened to me when I was spending some time in Greece … Read more

New Study Finds That Four Of Five Consumers Surveyed Have Very High Level Of Interest In Next-Gen Television Concept

In an update to a breakthrough 2017 national research study, consumers continue to show exceptionally strong interest in the Next-Gen Television service (also known as ATSC 3.0) that will offer the programming of free live over-the-air TV (such as local news, live sports, programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and other broadcast networks) and adds … Read more

US Startup Has 3.3″ “Secondary Smartphone” Device

A San Francisco-based startup has launched Palm, described by The Verge as “a sidecar for your smartphone”. The smartphone is made with Gorilla Glass and has a 3.3″ LCD display with a resolution of 720 × 1280, an aspect ratio of 16:9 and 445 ppi. Currently, it cannot be purchased on its own, only as … Read more

Sears Files for Bankruptcy: “We Remain Open for Business”

Following reports earlier this month that Sears is in the process of selling off billions of dollars’ worth of assets to deal with ongoing financial problems (Sears Sells Off Assets to Deal with Multi-Billion-Dollar Debts), the company has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The department store chain has apparently reached an agreement with lenders that … Read more

MDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #40

Amazon is updating the Kindle Paperwhite that continues to sell at $130 in the US and will ship from November. The unit is waterproof to IPX8 (2m of water for an hour). There is a flush front, rather than raised bezels and the LED lighting has gone up from four to five to improve uniformity. … Read more

Jaunt Announces Closure of VR Projects to Focus on AR

Immersive media company Jaunt VR has announced it will be refocusing its efforts on developing technologies for the scaled creation of AR content, driven by the response to its recent developments in volumetric XR technology. “This focus means though that we have had to make some tough decisions on our lines of business,” Jaunt said … Read more

Strategy Analytics: Larger Smartphones Increase in Consumer Acceptance

A new report from Strategy Analytics surveying consumers in the US, Western Europe, China and India has explored consumer smartphone size preference. Flagship device sizes between 5” and 5.5” continue to be preferred by most, especially in China and India where a device of 5.5” is considered “ideal” by most. Consumers in all markets surveyed … Read more

Larger Smartphones Increase in Consumer Acceptance, Finds Strategy Analytics

A new report from the User Experience Strategies (UXS) group at Strategy Analytics surveying consumers in the US, Western Europe, China and India has explored consumer smartphone size preference. Flagship device sizes between 5.0” and 5.5” continue to be preferred by most, especially in China and India where a device of 5.5” is considered ‘ideal’ … Read more