Google – Page 6 – Display Daily

Apple, Google and Samsung May Have Big Smartwatch Plans for 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say C|Net had a round-up of speculation about changes in smartwatches in 2022. The blog said that there could be an Apple Watch for extreme sports and the first smartwatch from Google …

Tags:Apple| Fitbit| Google| Samsung| Smartwatches

Google joins Samsung in working with iFixit on a self-repair progra

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has joined the trend to helping device owners to repair things themselves by tying up with iFixit. iFixit will supply repair guides and will make parts available including “batteries, displays, …

Tags:Google| Repair| Right to Repair| Smartphones

Google has acquired Raxium – a MicroLED Start-up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has bought Raxium, a five year start-up that has been developing monolithic microLEDs for headset use. The company said on its website that it is developing microLEDs with 3.5 micron …

Tags:Google| Mergers & Acquisitions| Microdisplays| MicroLED

New Chip Interconnect is ‘Incredibly Important’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bob O’Donnell is an analyst that we pay attention to (and he sometimes contributes DD articles). When he says something is important, I pay attention. He said that an announcement last …

Roku CEO predicts LG, Samsung and Vizio will Give Up their Own TV OSes

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an …

Google Promotes Chrome for Digital Signage, Again

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sixteen-nine.net reports that Google is making another approach to the digital signage market as there is a new version of Chrome, the Chrome OS Flex, that can run on existing devices …

Tags:Digital Signage| Google| Operating Systems

Omdia: Sharp Drop in 2021 Amazon Alexa Shipments Drove Smart Speaker Market “Correction”

by Artem Alekseenko

A sharp drop in shipments of the Amazon Alexa drove a “correction” in the U.S. smart speaker market in 2021, with sales resuming a more normalized growth rate after record shipments in 2020, according …

Tags:Amazon| Analytics & Tools| Apple| Google

Links Week Ending 25th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

Google Announces Software to Turn Old PCs and Macs Into Chromebooks

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has made blog post that highlights that it has a new version of the Chrome OS Flex operating system designed to transform old Macs and PCs into Chromebooks. The system …

Tags:Chrome| Chromebooks| Google| PCs

Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in …

Links Week Starting 31st January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Ricoh’s new Theta X 360º camera features …

Links Week Starting 24th January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Sky Is Largest TV Company by Revenue …