NTT Plala Provides UltraHD Date
by Super User
NTT Plala, the Japanese telco, will begin UltraHD broadcasting on 27th October.
Tags:4k| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Flextronics Hires New CMO
by Super User
Flextronics has appointed Michael Mendenhall to lead the company’s worldwide marketing, branding and communications initiatives. He most recently served as CMO and executive VP for Fusion-io, having previously held the post of senior VP …
Tags:Flex| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Archos Releases Low-cost Gear VR Competitor
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French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos VR Glasses. Like the Samsung and Google offerings, Archos’ ‘headset’ is more like …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Stereo 3D| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Christie Brings Movie Night to Hospital
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Christie has donated the components of a small cinema to the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in California. The cinema is intended to show films to children too ill to travel outside of …
Tags:Back Panel| Christie| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Copaco Adds LG Monitors
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Copaco in France is now distributing monitors from LG.
Tags:Distributors| France| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Gartner: SVoD Holds Strong Growth Potential
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Pay-TV is the largest segment of the overall consumer video services market, representing 96.3% of spending this year. Gartner expects this to fall to 94.2% by 2018, while subscription VoD (SVoD) services will grow. …
Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Koreans Plan CES Launch for Cadmium-Free QD TVs
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Cadmium-free quantum dot (QD) TVs will be introduced by Samsung next year, claims the Korea Times. The source quotes an unnamed official at Samsung. Samsung will apparently receive the QDs from Dow Chemical, which …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Nanoco| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
LG Donates Smartphones to Help Fight Ebola
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2,000 smartphones are to be contributed to the UN, for use in combating the ebola outbreak in West Africa, by LG. The phones will be provided to UN healthcare and other key personnel in …
Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
TSMC Result 20/10/2014
by Super User
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) announced a net profit of NT$76.3 billion ($2.5 billion) on turnover of NT$209 billion ($6.8 billion) for the third quarter of the year, which represented a 28.6% year on year …
Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TSMC| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Test for UltraHD Compatibility, Without an UltraHD Display
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A new UltraHD benchmark called Fire Strike Ultra has been developed by Futuremark. Users can test their system for UltraHD compatibility, even if they don’t have a high-resolution display. UltraHD content is rendered internally; …
Tags:4k| Benchmarks| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Microsoft Germany Names New CEO
by Super User
Microsoft has named Alastair Bruce as the new CEO of Microsoft Germany. Bruce replaces Thomas Schroder, who is leaving the company to join mobile operator Vodafone.
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
Garmin Chooses Futaba for Wearable
by Super User
Garmin has introduced a new fitness tracker and notification display called the Vivosmart. It is a wrist-worn device with a 1.4″ curved passive OLED from Futaba, with 128 x 16 resolution (the same as …
Tags:Fitness Trackers| Garmin| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21
