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iTunes Rental Gets Simpler

by Bob Raikes

Apple has released a new version (12.6) of iTunes that allows access to movies that have been rented on iTunes on other devices (“Rent once, watch anywhere”), although implementation will need new versions of …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Apple Refreshes iPad, Cuts Price

by Bob Raikes

Apple has launched a new version of the 9.7″ iPad, the most popular in the range and with pricing starting at $329 (32GB Wi-fi only) and $459 (32GB Wi-fi + cell model). The new …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

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Apple Found Guilty of Price Fixing in Russia

by Alan Spencer

Apple has been found guilty of price fixing in Russia by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS). The Apple subsidiary in the country was accused of telling 16 retailers to maintain the recommended prices of …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Price Fixing| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Bernstein Warns on OLED Investment

by Bob Raikes

Analysts from Bernstein have been on a trip to Asia, visiting Samsung, Corning, LG Display Japan Display, Toppan, ULVAC, Tokyo Electron, Applied Materials, Kateeva, Idemitsu Kosan, Hitachi Chemical, and Nanosys among the 23 companies …

Tags:Apple| China| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Cisco and Sky to Launch OnPrime TV

by Alan Spencer

A new app, OnPrime TV, developed by Cisco in collaboration with Sky and supported by Encompass Digital Media, is now available in the UK, Italy and Germany on Apple TV. Viewers can now access …

Tags:Apple| Cisco| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Sky| Vol 24 - Issue 11

New iPads May Have been Spotted

by Bob Raikes

Adding some credence to the idea that Apple may be about to launch a new version of the iPad, a mobile analytics firm, Fiksu is reported to have found new iPad identifiers in its …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Imagination Backs 4K, HDR and 120fps in Furian

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies has announced a new GPU design, the Furian which is the next step after the firm’s Rogue architecture, released in 2010, although that technology will continue to be available for lower level …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Apple Suppliers Boost Capex

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes has reported that two companies in the supply chain for touch on iPhones, General Interface Solutions and TPK Holdings, have both set aside substantial sums for capital investment ($163 million and $151 million, …

Tags:Apple| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 09

How Many Apple Engineers Working on AR?

by Milos Pavlovic

A UBS analyst has said that Apple may have over 1,000 engineers working on augmented reality in Israel which is leading to speculation that technology like Google’s Tango real-world detection may be in the …

Tags:Apple| AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

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New iPhone to have Redesigned Fingerprint ID Solution

by Alan Spencer

According to supply chain reports, the inclusion of an OLED screen and the removal of the home button are just two of the changes planned by Apple for the iPhone 8. Another big change …

Tags:Apple| Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Next Apple TV to Support UHD

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg reports that Apple TV will add UltraHD and HDR support to the next version, code named J105. Apple recently recruited Amazon’s Fire TV chief (Apple Hires Amazon’s Former Head of Fire TV). Bloomberg …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 06

Apple Patent Covers Mesh-like Flexible Display

by Bob Raikes

Apple has filed a patent application for a stretchable display, Apple Insider reports. The patent covers a display that is built on a the idea that the display elements are mounted on a mesh-like …

Tags:Apple| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 06