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UDC Signs OLED Agreement with Osram

by Tom Allen

Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Osram have signed a collaboration and evaluation agreement, which will see Osram begin sampling UDC’s phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) materials for use in lighting. The news comes just one month …

Blippar Claims Project ‘Bigger Than the Internet’

by Tom Allen

Augmented reality app maker Blippar has raised $54 million in Series D funding, to help it build a ‘visual browser’ to help in augmented reality (AR) applications. CEO and co-founder Ambarish Mitra told Business …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 08

JPR Hosts Breakfast Briefing at GDC

by Isaac Oburu

Portrait Displays has announced that it will sponsor the Jon Peddie Research (JPR) press briefing breakfast at the Game Developer’s Conference. The breakfast will take place at 8:15 AM on the 16th March, at …

Amazon Recalls Faulty Fire Chargers

by Isaac Oburu

Amazon has recalled chargers for Fire devices sold after September 2015 in the UK, because they could cause a shock to tablet users. The chargers recalled bear the FABK7B model number. Amazon is compensating …

Tags:Amazon| Mobile Display Monitor| Repair| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Tablet Demand Declining

by Isaac Oburu

Tablet supply chain vendors expect slow tablet business in Q1’16, and shipments are predicted by supply chain sources to be low. Most brand vendors are adjusting their product lines and business strategies, with the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 08

OLED Emits RGB From Same Materials

by Tom Allen

A research group at the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) (Kyushu University, Japan) has developed an OLED technology that can emit red, green and blue light using the same organic material. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 23 - Issue 08

Microsoft Launches Pre-order for HoloLens and Meta Follows Suit

by Norbert Hildebrand

After a long waiting period, we can finally see the Microsoft HoloLens device being offered for pre-order. The HoloLens device is an augmented reality headset with two displays and some form of holographic technology …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 08

iPhone 5SE Renamed – Before Launch

by Tom Allen

According to reports, Apple’s new iPhone will ditch its numbering system entirely. Rather than the previously-rumoured ‘iPhone 5SE’ (Apple Goes Back One Gen With New iPhone), it will instead be referred to simply as …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 08

FlexEnable Curves an LCD Around the Wrist

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable is a UK-based company that was spun off from Plastic Logic last year (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), and had space on the Graphene Flagship stand – a collection of companies working …

Gionee Looks to AMOLED and Autofocus

by Tom Allen

China’s Gionee had placed banners along the entrance walkways of the show, promoting its newest phone, so we had to go to the stand and check it out! Like several other Chinese vendors at …

Tech Companies Must “Crack the Code” on Wearables

by Tom Allen

In a survey of ‘wearable intenders’ (those planning to purchase a wearable within six months), IDC found these people to be ‘tech savvy, high social and extremely style conscious’. They will lead the next …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 08| Wearable Market

DisplayPort 1.4 Supports Error Correction For DSC

by Tom Allen

VESA has published DisplayPort v1.4 – the first major update since v1.3, which was approved in September 2014. It is the first version of DisplayPort to use VESA’s Display Stream Compression (DSC) technology. It …