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Monitor Trends Picked Out in CRN Interviews

by Raverstead

CRN.de has conducted a series of interviews with members of the monitor industry, from key companies in Germany. They include: Sebastian in het Panhuis of Asus (http://tinyurl.com/od8ckdw); Markus Korn of Samsung (http://tinyurl.com/noa7mv5); Michael Vorgberger …

PMA Research Moves Into FPD Reporting

by Raverstead

PMA Research is to begin a flat-panel display tracking service, in addition to its projector tracking. The FPD Tracking reports will be compiled from monthly sell-through data provided by a panel of pro-AV dealers …

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PMA Research| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Rovi Acquires Fanhattan

by Raverstead

Rovi has acquired venture-backed start-up Fanhattan, inventor of cloud-based Fan TV branded products, in an all-cash transaction. Fanhattan pioneers ways to discover media and entertainment on any screen, from any source, through Fan TV. …

Tags:Cloud TV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Rovi| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Samsung Display to Review Management

by Raverstead

Samsung Group’s Future Strategy Office is expected to conduct a managerial review of Samsung Display, which will cover the company’s business plan, strategies and portfolio, to try to establish what can be improved. In …

Tags:Display Industry| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Sony to Rethink Smartphone Strategy

by Raverstead

In an interview with The Nikkei newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/o5vybsm), Sony CFO Kenichiro Yoshida said that the company plans to rethink its smartphone strategy. While the recent finance results (see elsewhere in this issue) showed poor …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Thoughts on Black Friday

by Bob Raikes

One of our lead stories this week is about Black Friday. We first used the phrase “Black Friday” in the newsletter in 1997 in the context of a sales day after Thanksgiving. Interestingly, our …

Tags:Black Friday| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

uBeam Secures $10 Million Funding

by Raverstead

Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, …

Perch Shows Projection Based Digital Signage Solution

by Helen Vince

Digital Signage – Perch is a New York based company focusing on creating a point of product display solution. While this is nothing new in general, Perch uses a combination of technologies to provide …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 21 - Issue 45

TigerDirect Jumps on Virtual Reality Bandwagon

by Helen Vince

Virtual Reality – Major distributor TigerDirect sees virtual reality as getting ready to take off, so they are now starting to offer head-mounted display (HMD) systems to support the trend. At its annual Tech …

Tags:Distributors| Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor

Synaptics Driving Touch Display Driver Integration

by Helen Vince

Mobile Display – Patrick Worfolk, CTO, Synaptics delivered a talk on the firm’s views and approach for touch and display driver integration at Touch Gesture Motion 2014 in Austin, Texas, October 28-30, 2014. Worfolk commenced his …

Tags:In-cell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TGM 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Assessing 3D Stereo Comfort using an EEG

by Helen Vince

3D – Ever since the advent of 3D technologies, researchers have been investigating the psychological and physiological effects on users of viewing stereoscopic imagery. The general impression that I have obtained from reading many such …

Tags:Health and Safety| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Stereovision| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Balancing Charge Extends Quantum Dot Efficiencies

by Helen Vince

Technology – Chinese researchers have taken quantum dot (QD) LEDs above 20% external quantum efficiency (EQE) – thought to be the technology’s theoretical maximum – for the first time. By adding an insulator layer to …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 21 - Issue 44