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HbbTV 2.0 “Hopefully” Coming This Year

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Micahel Probst, director of the EU-supported Hbb-Next project, has said that HbbTV 2.0 will “hopefully” be released this year. V2.0 will also include four new features contributed by Probst’s group, including synchronised video content …

Digital Winter Entertains But Lets Down for Displays

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Every six months sees a new Digital Seasons event in the Montcalm Hotel near London’s Marble Arch. While the event itself is small, the products on show are extremely varied and the prize draws …

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Too Tipsy to Stand? No Problem at Wales’ iPub

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The Wesbourne pub in South Wales is using iPads to cut queue times – by letting drinkers serve themselves. The tablets are fixed to tables and linked to self-service taps, which can be operated …

IDC: Rising EMEA PCs Mark Return to Growth

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PC shipments in EMEA increased 10.4% YoY in Q3, to 23.7 million units. As the second consecutive quarter of rising shipments, the result marks a ‘clear’ return to growth, says IDC. Western Europe’s mature …

Acer Leads Rapid Chromebook Growth

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Chromebook shipments were up 67% QoQ globally in Q3’14, with Acer in the lead, according to ABI Research. The market’s top three vendors (Acer, Samsung and HP) accounted for 74% of shipments in the …

Nvidia Expands European Team

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Nvidia has hired two new vice presidents for the Europe, Middle East and India (EMEAI) region, Jaap Zuiderveld who will be responsible for sales and marketing, and Xochilt Balzola-Widmann who takes responsibility for Nvidia’s …

Highlights from the SMPTE Fall Conference and HPA Symposium

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Display Daily was at the recent SMPTE Fall Conference and the pre-show Symposium put on by HPA (Hollywood Post Alliance). The event was held in the Loews Hollywood Hotel and in the famous El …

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Spire and Asus Extend Partnership

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Spire’s partnership with Asus has expanded to include the company’s gaming and networking products, in the UK.

LG to End PDP Production This Month

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We heard earlier this year that LG Electronics was committed to ending plasma TV production this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 Nos 35 & 39). Now, the company has provided a time-frame. In a …

Ludwig Pohl Inducted into German Research Hall of Fame

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Merck KGaA is a leading developer and supplier of LCD materials, without whom, the development of the LCD industry would have been very different. One of the drivers behind the LC development was Ludwig …

STMicroelectronics Result 30/10/2014

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STMicroelectronics swung to a net profit in the third quarter of the year of $72 million from a net loss a year earlier of $142 million. Turnover for Q3 of this year was $1.8 …

Shelf Share: A Revealing Research Tool

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Deirdre Kennedy, an analyst for Gap Intelligence, has written extensively about shelf share in the retail space. Her explanation of the term is comprehensive and her examples are particularly relevant to the display trade. …