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Note 4 Owners Discover Screen Gap

by Super User

After rushing to take advantage of Apple’s bending iPhones (http://tinyurl.com/qjdvdjy), the last thing that Samsung wanted was its own manufacturing defect. Even Samsung can’t get everything its own way, however. According to Korea’s IT …

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Vivo…Until Gionee Revamped its Own Product

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China’s Gionee has gone and outdone itself, beating its previous S5.5 smartphone (holding the record for the world’s thinnest model) with the 5.1mm-thick ELife S5.1 (thinner than my mousemat! – TA). Like the S5.5, …

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San Francisco College Chooses Hitachi

by Super User

Multiple Hitachi projectors have been installed by the City College of San Francisco. Although the main model installed has been the CP-AW312WN, Hitachi’s CP-WX8255, CP-WX8240 and CP-X3030WN models are also being used around the …

CEOs Choose DOOH Over (Almost) Everything

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A Censuswide survey in the UK has found that as many as 66% of CEOs believe that premium DOOH is the most effective advertising medium. The platform was second only to TV (74%). DOOH’s …

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Intel and Stino Collaborate for Content Management

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Germany’s Stino Eyevis GmbH will work with Intel on digital signage solutions. The partnership will make use of Intel’s Reference Design for Digital Signage (EL-10), which is based on an Intel Atom processor. It …

Dow to Build Cadmium-Free QD Plant in South Korea

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The Dow Chemical Company is to start construction of what it claims is the world’s first large-scale, cadmium-free quantum dot manufacturing operation at the company

Flexible Substrate Production Cost Cut by Two-Thirds

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A technique that bonds a polymeric film to glass, in a way that means it can be ‘easily’ removed by applying heat, has been developed by the Suga Laboratory of the School of Engineering …

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Passport is Only Blackberry’s First Phone

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After the launch of the square-shaped Blackberry Passport, the Canadian company has said that it already has another unusual device under development. Blackberry will look to introduce at least one unconventional device each year. …

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Gestures Detected Through GSM Reflections

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A research project at the University of Washington, called Sideswipe, demonstrates a way to control smartphones through gestures – without adding power-hungry components. Some smartphones today use cameras for 3D gesture sensing. However, they …

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Barco to Sell Defence & Aerospace Unit to Esterline

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Barco confirmed this week that it has reached an agreement with US-based aerospace and defence group Esterline Corporation to sell its Defence & Aerospace division. The sale, which covers both shares and assets, is …

LED Brings American Football to the BIG Screen

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Bigger is better, as they say in the USA – and the owners of the Tannery Row Ale House in Buford, Georgia appear to have taken it to heart. The recently-installed digital display is …

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Jasper Suggests 4K Projectors for Home Theatre

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The German publication Elektronik Praxis reports that Kenneth Tai, Chairman of Jasper Display, has pushed the idea of creating UltraHD home theatre projection solutions based on a new UltraHD LCOS chip which the company …