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Netflix May be Bought by Disney

by Yvette Raikes

The Walt Disney company is rumoured to be planning to acquire Netflix, the online streaming service. This makes sense to analysts as Disney produces a great deal of video and this would be a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 23 - Issue 39

LCD to OLED Shift Accelerates for Koreans

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit has confirmed the switch in strategy from LCD to OLED by the Korean panel makers because of growing capacity and price competition from China. As we have previously reported, Samsung has already …

Sharp Shows 1000+ ppi For VR and Rounded Corners on LCD

by Bob Raikes

At Ceatec in Japan, Sharp has shown an LCD based on an IGZO backplane that has reached a pixel density of more than 1000 ppi. The panel was 2.87″ in diagonal with 1920 x …

Google Brings New Phones and VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

Google announced two new smartphone models as well as a VR system. The phones are called the Pixel and Pixel XL and will be sold only under the Google brand and not via a …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Oppo Ahead of Apple in India

by Bob Raikes

The Economc Times reports that Oppo of China has claimed on the basis of data from GfK, that the value of its business in India was more than that of Apple in August at …

Tags:India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Lenovo Building Notebook Inventory?

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes reports that Lenovo may have as much as five months’ inventory of notebooks and may use this inventory to try to take share from HP, which is reported by IHS to have relatively …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 39

VR Hardware to Be Worth Over $50Bn by 2021 says Juniper

by Bob Raikes

Image: MekoJuniper Research said that it believes that the value of the market for VR headsets, peripherals and 360º cameras will reach a value of $50 billion by 2021, up from an an estimated …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Matterport Claims the “World’s Largest Library” of Real-World VR Places

by Bob Raikes

Matterport is a Sunnyvale, California, company that is building a database of images and models for VR. It is claiming the world’s largest collection of VR-focused real-world models and locations as it claims to …

Tags:3D| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

HTC Seeks Ideas For Vive Accessories

by Yvette Raikes

HTC is running a competition inviting participants to suggest an idea for a Vive accessory. The Viveport community forum will then vote on the ideas and the best three will win a free Vive …

Tags:Back Panel| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Vodafone Romania launches TV, strikes Netflix deal

by Bob Raikes

Vodafone has entered the Romanian TV market with an application called 4GTV+ which allows smartphone users to view TV content within 72 hours of transmission on the system. The company is also offering Netflix …

Tags:3G & 4G| Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Vodafone| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Start Up Developing Car Signage

by Bob Raikes

Drive.ai is a Silicon Valley start-up founded by researchers from Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and is developing software for autonomous cars and has been given a licence in California to test autonomous cars …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Crystalplex Gets Patent for Sapphire Quantum Dots

by Bob Raikes

Crystalplex Corp. announced that it has been awarded US Patent No. 9,425,253, “Passivated Nanoparticles,”. The patent, which claims the fabrication and use of Sapphire quantum dots, or passivated quantum dots with improved stability, was …

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