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Microsoft Prepares for UK Hub Launch

by Tom Allen

Microsoft’s big news for education was (still) the Surface Hub (Microsoft Announces Surface Hub as a Collaborative Display Tool): a large-format collaborative display. Since being revealed last year, Microsoft has announced that the Hub …

JDI to Begin OLED Mass Production

by Milos Pavlovic

Japan Display – the joint small panel venture between Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – has announced that it will begin to mass produce OLED panels in 2018. JDI CEO Mitsuru Homma. Image: ReutersThe company …

Tags:Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Production| Vol 23 - Issue 02

AR / VR Developments

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft announced their Room2Room project that ups the typical Skype call to a full blown projection experience in a room. As the successor to an earlier project called RoomAlive, it uses the Kinect system …

Cisco & MaxLinear In SkyQ

by Bob Raikes

It has been confirmed that the new SkyQ UltraHD STB will be based around MediaHighway middleware from Cisco and will include a MaxLinear MxL5x2 satellite receiver and EN5520 Channel Stacking IC. The receiver can …

Arris Completes Pace Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

In the flood of news at CES it looks as though the news that Arris has completed its acquisition of STB maker Pace of the UK for £1.4 billion slipped by us. Arris acquired …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Plessey Looking at Cubic GaN for Efficient Green LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Plessey, Anvil Semiconductors and the University of Cambridge said that they are working together to fabricate high efficiency LEDs in cubic GaN grown on Anvil’s 3C-SiC / Si substrates. The group said that Cubic …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 02

Vehicular Technology at CES

by Bob Raikes

Automotive technology is becoming a steadily larger and more important component of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Ford is leading the way in terms of the number of vehicles exhibited, but several other …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Consumer — but Really Automotive — Telematics Show at CES

by Ken Werner

Kia proudly claimed it had been issued Nevada’s first autonomous vehicle license license plate (photo), while Mercedes Benz said its 2017 E-Class is the first “standard-production” vehicle to receive an autonomous license from the …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Samsung Sponsors Sundance With VR

by Tom Allen

Samsung, the official mobile sponsor of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (21st – 31st January), is focusing on VR at the Samsung Studio: a venue at the SFF for film makers, content developers and …

Acer Integrates TeachSmart in Notebook

by Tom Allen

Acer expanded its TravelMate line with a new notebook called the B117: the first to support the company’s TeachSmart solution. TeachSmart will work in conjunction with an LED indicator on the the lid of …

Kopin Receives Final Payment

by Tom Allen

Kopin has received the final $15 million payment for the sale of its III-V product line, which was completed in January 2013. Kopin sold its IC business to IQE, a UK-based designer and supplier …

Tags:Kopin| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Giant Clams Hold Clues to Reflective Colour

by Tom Allen

Scientists at the University of California have accidentally found a way to work towards reflective colour displays – in the shells of giant clams. Giant clams, which live in the Pacific and Indian oceans, …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reflective Display| Vol 23 - Issue 02