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LA Schools Ask Apple for Multi-Million Dollar Refund

by Tom Allen

It’s a bad time for iPads in education. First, schools began to favour Chromebooks over the expensive tablets – and now the Los Angeles Unified School District has asked Apple for a multi-million dollar …

LG Teases Brighter, More Colourful Display

by Tom Allen

LG has issued a teaser video about the display of its upcoming G4 smartphone. The video says that the phone will have 2560 x 1440 resolution and will be 25% brighter, with a 20% …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 17

IoT Drives WiFi Device Growth

by Tom Allen

Around 2.3 billion WiFi-connected devices were shipped worldwide last year, says Taiwan’s MIC, driven by smartphone and Internet of Things (IoT) demand. The figure was an 18% YoY rise. All sectors of the computing …

TSMC Cuts Capex by $1 Billion

by Helen Vince

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) says it is reducing its capital expenditure budget this year by $1 billion to $11 billion, because of disappointing demand for smartphone chips this quarter. Last week Intel also revised …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TSMC| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Apple Watch Touch Marked for Use on iPhone 6S

by Tom Allen

The next iPhone will use the same Force Touch technology as is featured on the Apple Watch, say Taiwanese panel makers. The sources say that Apple is experimenting with the placement of the sensor, …

Asus Touch Orders Return to Taiwan

by Tom Allen

Touch panel orders for Asus’ Zenfone smartphones will be moved from O-Film back to makers in Taiwan, say sources in the country. The new suppliers will include JTouch, TPK and Young Fast Electronics. O-Film …

Tianma Shows 5.5″ FHD AMOLED Display Panel

by Norbert Hildebrand

The OLED Association has released news about a new 5.5″ AMOLED display presented to the organisation by Tianma. According to the article the new AMOLED display comes with full HD resolution, a first for …

Touch International Combines Day and Night Readability

by Tom Allen

US-based Touch International has expanded its range of display enhancements. The company can now design, develop and build custom dual-mode sunlight-readable LCD units, which also support night vision use. The custom displays can be …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Sunlight Readable Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Apple Extends UltraHD Support to Single Stream

by Tom Allen

Apple has begun to support lower-cost UltraHD displays with the release of OSX 10.10.3. Previously, Apple’s devices would only send UltraHD signals to Multi-Stream Transport displays at 60Hz. With this change Single-Stream Transport models, …

Seene Moves From 3D to VR

by Tom Allen

Seene is a company specialising in 3D image capture on iOS and Android, and has now turned its attention to VR. The Seene app has now been updated, and can be used to shoot, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 16| Wearables

iFixit Gives 2015 Macbook 1/10

by Tom Allen

Teardown specialist iFixit has found that the secret behind Apple’s new Macbook is…glue. Lots and lots of glue. The company gave the device a 1/10 repairability score. Most of the internals are battery, with …

Flexenable Joins European Graphene Research

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable, a spin-off from Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), is now participating in the Graphene Flagship initiative (http://tinyurl.com/oo5gj7f). The Graphene Flagship is a research programme with a €1 billion budget, aiming …