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JCDecaux Snags Best Billboard

by Raverstead

JCDecaux’s massive (120m²) Waterloo Motion digital billboard, in London, has won DailyDOOH’s Best Original Digital Billboard award for 2014. The company also took second and third place, with the Trafford Arch and Heathrow GrandView …

Tags:Back Panel| DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 49

And Finally… Coxon pokes fun

by Raverstead

And finally – Mark Coxon of Rave Pubs pokes fun at corporate marketing in his latest ‘interview’ – actually between himself as a Rave writer and his alter ego, AVPhenom. Branding himself as the …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Lufthansa Takes Off With Surface Pro 3

by Raverstead

German airline Lufthansa will begin equipping its pilots with the Surface Pro 3 tablet from next year, replacing the existing cockpit laptops. More than 5,000 tablets have been ordered, as well as special docking …

Tags:Aviation| Back Panel| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Asus Wins in Japan

by Raverstead

Seventeen of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion’s Good Design Awards have gone to Asus. Winning products include seven notebooks, two tablets, three desktop PCs, a motherboard, a projector, an LCD monitor, an AIO …

Tags:Asus| Awards| Back Panel| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 44

KSS Begins High-Res Roll-out

by Raverstead

India’s KSS has entered the high resolution space with a Sony deal. KSS aims to install 3,000 DCI-4k cinema screens over the next 2-3 years. Over the next 18 months, it will invest INR1.5 …

Tags:4K DCI| Back Panel| Cinema Projection| India| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Plastic Logic Recognised With Excellence Award

by Raverstead

Plastic Logic’s AMOLED technology has been recognised at the Global OLED Congress in Shanghai. The technology won the OLED Innovation Excellence Award. Plastic Logic’s flexible AMOLED displays are based on its own sub-100 deg …

Tags:AMOLED| Awards| Back Panel| Flexible Devices| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plastic Logic| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Buzzcocks Set Revamped With New Displays

by Raverstead

XL Video has supplied new display solutions for studio recordings of UK TV show, Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Several elements of the set rely on video, such as the main screen (4.8m x 2.7m), …

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Microvision Receives Second Component Order

by Raverstead

Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43), Microvision signed a $1.5 million agreement with a Fortune Global 100 customer. The customer has now followed this with an additional $1.9 million purchase order …

Tags:Back Panel| Microdisplays| Microvision| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Barco Continues CFG Partnership

by Raverstead

Barco has signed an agreement to supply 800 digital cinema projectors to China Film Group. Over the next few months, they will be deployed in cinemas across the country. 100 models will be Barco …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| China| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49

LeapFrog Recognised for Children’s Entertainment

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The LeapTV console and LeapPad tablet, from Leapfrog, have won Oppenheim Toy Portfolio awards. Both were honoured with the Gold Seal and Special Needs Adaptable Product (SNAP) awards; the LeapTV also won a Platinum …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Toys| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Samsung Brings Policing to the 21st Century

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Samsung is supplying 4,000 Galaxy Note 3 devices to the UK’s West Yorkshire police force, replacing traditional notebooks. The phablets can be used to record crimes without requiring an officer to return to a …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Samsung| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Microvision Result 14/11/14

by Raverstead

Microvision Inc. narrowed its third quarter net loss to $3.3 million from $3.6 million a year earlier, while turnover was little changed year on year at $968,000 compared with $964,000. The company’s net loss …

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