Vol 21 – Issue 39 – Page 10

EC to Investigate Apple

by Super User

The European Commission has concluded a preliminary investigation into Apple’s tax affairs in Ireland and concluded that the company benefited from unlawful state aid, following allegations of ‘special deals’ agreed with Irish authorities. The …

Gel Film Transistor Speeds Flexible Electronics

by Super User

Yang Yang, a researcher at UCLA, and colleagues claim to have developed an ‘inexpensive and simple way’ to produce transparent, flexible transistors. Transistors are generally produced using a multi-step photolithography process (printing a pattern …

Rumour: Nexus 6 Will be First With Android L

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9to5Google claims that the rumoured Nexus 6 smartphone will be launched this month, alongside the HTC-produced Nexus 9 tablet (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26). The website claims that an alternative name for the …

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Changhong to Close PDP Business?

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Changhong Electric, the last significant manufacturer of plasma display panels for TV use, continued to halt trading in its stock this week, leading to speculation that the company may finally have decided to end …

OVAB Signs Agreement With Club de Digital Media

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France’s Club de Digital Media and Germany’s OVAB Europe have agreed to work together, to standardise the collection of industry data. As well as collecting and presenting information on the European signage industry, the …

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LG Will Leave Plasma in 2014 – But a Market Still Exists

by Super User

LG has told Pocket Lint that it will end plasma TV production this year – but still believes that there is a market for the technology. According to Pocket Lint, LG said that the …

OLED Breakthroughs

by Super User

Unusually, we lead this week with a technical story. However, the breakthrough in blue lifetime could be significant indeed. It was 2003 when we reported two talks by David Fyfe of CDT, one of …

Samsung Supports Students at UEL

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4,000 first-year students at the University of East London have been supplied with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet. The tablets, which have eBooks pre-installed and run customised software, were supplied to aid student learning.

Unowhy Cooks Up Third-Gen With Tegra 4

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The third generation of the Qooq tablet (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 6), by French company Unowhy, is powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor (1.9GHz, quad-core). The Qooq v3 is designed for use in …

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Huawei Woos France With Investment

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Huawei is to invest

WallDecaux Begins Underground Rollout

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WallDecaux – the joint portfolio of Wall AG and JCDecaux, in Germany – has begun the installation of a new nationwide digital underground network. ‘Digital Underground Berlin’ consists of 75 LCD displays at 25 …

Retina iMacs Are on The Way, Claim Sources

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According to 9to5Mac, Apple will launch a line of iMac AIO computers with high-resolution ‘retina’ displays later this year. While the slim profile of the new iMacs will be the same as the 2012 …