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PC Shipments Will Fall to 2017

by Tom Allen

PC shipments will fall 8.7% YoY in 2015, and will not stabilise until 2017, says IDC. Growth will continue to decline through 2016, making it the fifth consecutive year of falling shipments. When growth …

Dragon Quest: Educational 3D Content?

by Len Scrogan

The number one thing hardware and solutions companies ask me about is “Where can I find educational 3D content?” It’s also one of the expected questions educators ask me at my presentations. It’s my …

Apple’s PrimeSense Tech Turns 2D into 3D

by Tom Allen

An Apple patent, describing a method for rendering 2D images and video so that they appear 3D, has been discovered at the US Patent & Trade Office. According to Patently Apple, the effect is …

Flexible Encapsulation Worth $184 Billion in Five Years

by Tom Allen

The market for flexible barrier manufacturing will be worth $184 million by 2020, says IDTechEx. Single-layer solutions, such as flexible glass and atomic layer deposition (ALD) will capture part of the market. Due to …

Archos ‘Reveals’ Windows 10 Mobile Release

by Tom Allen

A product announcement by French firm Archos has provided a hint at when Windows 10 Mobile might be available. Archos will launch the 50 Cesium and 50e Helium smartphones this year, in November. Although …

Tags:Android| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 34| Windows

TSMC Wins Ruling Against Former Executive

by Helen Vince

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) is reported to have won a lawsuit involving one of its former R&D executives, which claimed that the employee had passed details of TSMC’s 28-nanometer process technology to Samsung. Liang …

Hon Hai Invests in Cima NanoTech

by Helen Vince

Hon Hai Precision has signed a joint venture with Cima NanoTech, a US manufacturer of transparent conductive film solutions, to provide projective capacitive solutions for large format, 40″ to 100″, touch screens. The joint …

Litemax to Buy Wynmax

by Helen Vince

Litemax Electronics, a Taiwanese LCD module manufacturer, is to acquire Wynmax, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of industrial computing devices, for NT$320 million ($9.8 million). Litemax will fund the acquisition through a three year unsecured convertible …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Exploride – A new Aftermarket HUD for the Car Enters Crowdfunding Stage

by Norbert Hildebrand

The latest entry into the automotive aftermarket head up display (HUD) field comes from Exploride, an Indian/MIT startup company. It has developed a HUD based on a transparent display that pretty much mirrors all …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Explore the Wilds With Tobii

by Tom Allen

An online hunting simulation game (probably the safest place to do it, considering the furore surrounding Cecil the lion – TA) named ‘The Hunter’, by Avalanche Studios, is now compatible with Tobii’s EyeX eye-tracking …

Design Flaw Breaks Note 5 Pen Detection

by Tom Allen

A design flaw has been uncovered in Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5, which can break the pen detection mechanism. Inserting the S Pen stylus the wrong way round (i.e. with the nib pointing out of …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 34

V-Nova Ports Perseus to Nvidia

by Tom Allen

The Perseus codec from V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) has been ported to run on Nvidia GPUs. GPU-enabled Perseus technology is now available to V-Nova customers. The parallel approach to signal processing …