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Comcast confirms interest in putting X1 on smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Comcast is thinking about licensing its X1 video platform, used in its cable and broadband devices, to Smart TV makers. X1 is the base for the firm’s Flex platform for broadband-only …

Tags:Comcast| Operating Systems| Smart TV

Huawei Plans to Put Its Harmony OS on 200 Million Devices by 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei has to reduce its use of US technologies in line with US government restrictions, so will move away from Google’s Android to its own Harmony OS 2.0. What We Think …

Tags:Android| Huawei| Operating Systems| Smartphones

What Bob Saw on the Net 12/08/2019

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Apple …

Vewd Can Co-Exist with Android TV

by Bob Raikes

Vewd has a new product manager, Sascha Prüter, who is from Google, where he was head of product for Android TV, so he has a very good sense of the strength of his opposition. …

Access and Foxxum Announce Collaboration on Smart TV UIs

by Andrew Fenn

Access and Foxxum are collaborating on the development of user interfaces for multi-platform services based on Linux for the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The joint solution will enable operators in emerging markets to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Operating Systems| Smart TV| Vol 25 - Issue 35

IHS: Smart TV Share will Jump to 70% of TV Shipments in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

The global unit-share of smart TVs rose from 45% of total TV shipments in 2015 to 64% in 2017. It is expected to reach 70% of all TV shipments in 2018. Global TV shipments …

Tim Cook Debunks macOS and iOS Merging Rumours

by Andrew Fenn

After months of rumours, Apple CEO Tim Cook has finally put paid to reports that iOS and macOS are to be merged. (Apple Reported to be Unifying iOS and MacOS) Speaking to the Sydney …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 25 - Issue 16

IDC: Android to Increase Dominance

by Andrew Fenn

As we have previously reported, according to IDC, worldwide smartphone shipments declined 0.5% in 2017, the first year-on-year decline the market has experienced since the introduction of smartphones. Smartphone companies shipped a total of …

Nvidia Leaving 32-bit Operating Systems Behind

by Andrew Fenn

Nvidia has announced that Release 390 will be the last driver update for 32-bit operating systems for any of its GPU architecture. Later driver release versions will not operate, nor install, on 32-bit operating …

Apple Reported to be Unifying iOS and MacOS

by Bob Raikes

Apple is reported by Bloomberg to be working on unifying the iOS and macOS operating systems by allowing a single code base and supporting the mouse and trackpad on Mac devices in iOS. The …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Google Introduces Oreo – Android Lite

by Bob Raikes

Google has released Android Oreo (Go Edition), a ‘lightweight’ version of Android that is intended for lower cost smartphones and the announcement was made in India, which is likely to be one of the …

IDC: Phablets to Overtake Regular Smartphone Shipments by 2019

by Andrew Fenn

According to a new forecast from IDC, overall smartphone shipments will steadily grow from 1.5 billion units in 2017 to 1.7 billion units in 2021. Meanwhile, phablets (smartphones with a screen size of 5.5″ …