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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 …

R&D Core’s Touch Tech Works With Flexible Screens

by Raverstead

R&D Core, a UK-based start-up, is working with Plastic Logic to develop a resistive touch system for flexible displays. Digital Resistive Area Sensing (DRAS) layers are integrated behind a display stack, and respond to …

Shopping Season is Almost Upon Us

by Raverstead

Black Friday marks the traditional beginning of the end-of-year shopping season in the USA. In recent years, European retailers have also begun to offer promotions in mid-late November. Amazon began its sales earlier in …

Sony to Rethink Smartphone Strategy

by Raverstead

In an interview with The Nikkei newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/o5vybsm), Sony CFO Kenichiro Yoshida said that the company plans to rethink its smartphone strategy. While the recent finance results (see elsewhere in this issue) showed poor …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Thoughts on Black Friday

by Bob Raikes

One of our lead stories this week is about Black Friday. We first used the phrase “Black Friday” in the newsletter in 1997 in the context of a sales day after Thanksgiving. Interestingly, our …

Tags:Black Friday| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

uBeam Secures $10 Million Funding

by Raverstead

Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, …

Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 48

by Raverstead

A set of portable dome projection displays has been released by Barco. The TD series is available with one, three or five projectors: the F35 and F50 on the single-projector models (TD-135, TD-150); F22 …

32″ – 42″ Panel Prices Will Rise in Q4

by Raverstead

Pricing for 32″, 40″ and 42″ TV panels will continue to rise in Q4’14, say Asian sources. The situation is not expected to soften until Q1’15, when demand seasonally falls. Panel makers have lowered …

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KPN Scraps STB for IPTV Service

by Raverstead

Dutch operator KPN is working with SMiT, a manufacturer of conditional access modules (CAMs), to launch an IPTV service that does not require a set-top box. A product pilot will begin next year, using …

Signagelive Wins Lithuanian Contract

by Raverstead

Lithuania’s AB ‘Citadele’ bankas has deployed Samsung’s Smart Signage platform, using Signagelive’s SoC software. It is the country’s first financial institution to deploy the product. Signage has been installed in waiting areas in every …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Smart Digital Signage| Vol 21 - Issue 44

At Least’ Half of ATU Members Will Not Meet ASO Deadline

by Raverstead

‘At least’ half of the members of the The Africa Telecommunications Union (ATU) will not meet the June 2015 analogue switch-off date, the organisation has said. Reasons for the delays include public resistance, lack …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 21 - Issue 49

DTVL Deploys HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite

by Raverstead

Digital TV Labs in the UK has announced an HbbTV 2.0 Test Suite – which it claims is the world’s first. The Suite will be developed to support Digital UK’s next-generation Freeview service. Manufacturers …

Tags:Europe| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 21 - Issue 48