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Prowise Introduces Palm Recognition On Interactive Whiteboards

by Artem Alekseenko

Users of a Prowise Touchscreen Ten can now work with palm recognition, allowing you to rest your palm on the screen while writing. Prowise is making this and various other functionalities available via a …

Tags:Digital Whiteboards| Operating Systems

150 million Fire TV devices sold by Amazon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon said that it and its partners have shipped more than 150 million devices based on the Fire TV OS since 2014. It revealed this in its quarterly earnings statement and …

Tags:Amazon| Automotive| Operating Systems| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in …

Links Week Starting 17th January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Here’s a nice VFX show reel if …

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Google Claims 110M Devices Using Google and Android TV OS

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google reported that Google TV and Android TV now have over 110 million active monthly devices, up by 30 million since May. Some of those devices will be Chromecast devices which …

Meta Platforms Halts VR and AR Operating System Project

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although the Information reported that Meta was stopping development of a new O/S to support AR and VR, and would focus on modifying Android, but Bloomberg got a quote from Meta …

Tags:Android| Facebook/Meta| Operating Systems| The Metaverse

Links Week Starting 3rd January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. I spotted the chart below on the …

TCL Resumes Google TV Sales in the US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported that TCL’s Google-based TVs were no longer on sale in Best Buy in the US after some problems, but the sets have now been updated with new firmware that …

Tags:Best Buy| Google| Operating Systems| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

Open-source Vizio lawsuit takes an ugly turn

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio is in trouble with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) over a decision not to release its Linux software. The firm uses Linux open-source software which is released under the GPL …

Tags:Litigation| Operating Systems| Software| Vizio

TCL Google TVs Pulled from Shelves in the US Due to Software Issues

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Best Buy in the US has withdrawn TCL TVs based on Google TV (TCL Introduces Award-Winning 5-Series and 6-Series TV Lines with Google TV) from its stores and TCL confirmed to …

Google releases Android 12 for TV with refresh rate switching, 4K user interface

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has released Android 12 for TV to developers. Features are: Media Avoid motion judder during playback using refresh rate switching Certified API-accuracy for reporting display modes, HDR formats and surround …

Tags:Android| Operating Systems| Smart TV

Omdia Updates on Streaming and HbbTV

by Bob Raikes

HbbTV held its 9th Symposium and Awards event in Paris – a mixture of the live and virtual. We picked up on the live stream and were interested to hear what Paul Gray, Director …