Vol 21 – Issue 44 – Page 6

Moving Toward a New User Interface

by Raverstead

Jonathan Josephson of Quantum Interface (Austin, Texas) presented an ambitiously titled Motion Tutorial talk at the 2014 Touch Gesture Motion Conference (October 28-30, Austin, Texas) entitled, History of the World of Interfaces and Interactions …

Samsung Display to Review Management

by Raverstead

Samsung Group’s Future Strategy Office is expected to conduct a managerial review of Samsung Display, which will cover the company’s business plan, strategies and portfolio, to try to establish what can be improved. In …

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UAE Smartphone Market to Top $9.3 Billion

by Raverstead

A report on the smartphone market in the United Arab Emirates is now available at Research and Markets (http://tinyurl.com/lpfyggs). Smartphone demand in the country has risen swiftly over the last five years, especially with …

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HD+ Reaches 1.6 Million Subs

by Raverstead

HD+, the German TV platform, now has almost 1.6 million customers, five years after it was launched. Compared to September 2013, 313,683 new subscribers have joined HD+. An additional 1.3 million viewers are in …

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Vizio Expands South of the Border

by Raverstead

Vizio has entered the Mexican market. The company’s E-series and M-Series TVs are now being sold through Sams’s Club and Walmart Superstore locations.

Apple Warranties Become More Even-Handed

by Raverstead

Analysing Apple data over the last 11 years, 369 Week has concluded that the company is ‘giving its customers a break’. Apple is paying more 369 claims and keeping extended 369 prices steady, resulting …

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Barco Clarifies Uniti Design Brief

by Raverstead

We recently reported on the new Coronis Uniti diagnostic monitor from Barco (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42). The monitor is a colour unit that has high resolution (4200 x 2800) and very high …

Fujitsu Result 31/10/2014

by Raverstead

Fujitsu Limited reported a second quarter net profit of ¥17.2 billion ($150.1 million), ¥6.5 billion ($56.7 million) lower than the second quarter of last year. Turnover for the quarter was ¥1.1 trillion ($9.6 billion), …

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NEC Calibrates With Light Illusion

by Raverstead

NEC Display Solutions of America has entered into a collaboration with UK-based Light Illusion. The aim of the work is to enable native calibration for NEC’s colour-critical monitors, through the Lightspace CMS display calibration …

SEL Exceeds 1,000ppi With OLED

by Raverstead

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory showed two new OLED displays at Display Innovations 2014 in Japan last month. The first was a 2.8″ colour unit with 2560 x 1440 resolution – 1,049ppi! A c-axis aligned oxide …

uBeam Secures $10 Million Funding

by Raverstead

Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, …

KPN Loses DTT Subscribers

by Raverstead

KPN’s DTT platform in the Netherlands, Digitenne, is believed to have dropped below 500,000 subscribers. In KPN’s recent results, the Digitenne figure came under the heading ‘Other TV homes’ (508,000), which also included analogue …

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