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Consumers Will Get Hands (and Eyes) on Oculus This Year

by Tom Allen

Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe is said to have told attendees of CES 2015 that the Oculus Rift headset will be launched by the autumn of this year. Cyberland claims that production has already …

IBM Result 21/01/2015

by Helen Vince

IBM recorded a net profit in the fourth quarter of the year of $5.5 billion on turnover of $24.1 billion, which compares with a net profit in Q4 of last year of $6.2 billion …

Tags:Financial Data| IBM| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05

AMD Result 21/01/2015

by Helen Vince

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) recorded a net loss in the fourth quarter of the year of $364 million on turnover of $1.24 billion, which compares with a net profit of $89 million on turnover …

Tags:AMD| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

PC Squeezed Into (Literally) Hand-held Form Factor

by Vanessa Browning

A Polish developer, Przemys?aw Strzelczyk, and his team have succeeded in shrinking PC internals down far enough to fit them into a mouse. The Mouse-Box will eventually be a working product, but is currently at …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 04

FDA Separates Fitness Trackers From Health Products

by Vanessa Browning

The USA’s Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance (http://tinyurl.com/q24e7qn) on rules to follow for vendors to get wearable devices classified as ‘general wellness’ products (i.e. not a device for treating specific medical …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Wearables

IDC Expects Easing in APAC PC Contraction

by Tom Allen

The APAC PC market (excluding Japan) was down 6.3% YoY in 2014, to 101 million units. While still a fall, the decline was still an improvement on the 10.3% contraction experienced in 2013. The …

Hydis Closes Down its Operations

by Vanessa Browning

Hydis Technologies has decided to close down its operations in Korea because of its serious financial difficulties. Earlier this month the company’s largest shareholder, Taiwan’s E Ink, called for a halt to factory operations …

Tags:business| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Flex-o-Fab Demonstrates Flexible OLED from Roll to Roll Process

by Norbert Hildebrand

Flex-o-Fab, the European research program for OLED, has reported the first OLED device produced by a roll to roll process. The program includes 12 European companies and organizations from different fields which came together …

CES 2015 a Tipping Point for OTT/Streaming Video

by Bob Raikes

Phew!!! Last year, I thought our CES report was comprehensive – it ran to 48 pages. However, this year, the report has swollen to 80 pages as we have boosted our coverage of a …

New Large-Format Monochrome Ultra-Glow LCD Marine Instrument Displays from Garmin

by Tom Allen

Garmin’s new marine monitors are said to show the brightest, most visible digits on the market. Both the 7″ GNX 120 and 10″ GNX 130 are ultra-glow anti-fog (optically-bonded) displays, using an inverted LCD display …

Tags:Garmin| Industrial Monitors| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Sharp Forecasts Results Shortfall

by Helen Vince

Sharp confirmed this week that its financial results for the year ending in March 2015 are expected to fall short of the company’s last forecast in October. The company was responding to claims in …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Lapexpand Seeks Funding

by Vanessa Browning

Lapexpand is a project that is seeking crowdfunding on Indiegogo (http://tinyurl.com/ph7asmp), and intending to bring the full desktop experience to mobile computing. The company is developing portable, lightweight monitors (1920 x 1080) that fold …