Vol 21 – Issue 45 – Page 12

Haptics in Hand at TGM 2014

by Raverstead

Haptic technology was a tangible component of TGM. Haptics presentations were offered by Tactus Technology, Novasentis, Aito, and Tangible Haptics. Tactus Technology continues its push toward a product launch with its manufacturing partner Wystron …

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TCL’s LCD TV Sales Up 11%

by Raverstead

TCL Multimedia saw LCD TV sales rise 10.7% in October from the same period last year. Sales of smart TVs increased 30.2%. In TCL’s home market of China, the company’s sales volume fell 9.8% …

JCDecaux and Estée Lauder Paint Paris Red

by Raverstead

Estée Lauder and JCDecaux worked together on a signage campaign in Paris recently. Passers-by could play a slot machine-style game on interactive screens, installed at three bus shelters in the city, to win lipsticks …

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Samsung Shows 95″ FHD Display at DPAA

by Raverstead

Samsung had a small exhibition space at the DPAA Video Everywhere conference and was showing a 10″ and a 95″ LED LCD as the company’s smallest and largest offering in the professional display space. …

Acer Names Head of Notebook Business Group

by Raverstead

Acer has promoted Jerry Kao to president of the company’s notebook business group. He currently serves as general manager of the group, which he co-heads with Jackson Lin, president.

Hon Hai Posts 22% Jump in Sales

by Raverstead

Hon Hai Precision (which trades as Foxconn Electronics) grew sales in October by 22.6% year on year to NT$469 billion ($15.3 billion), bringing sales for January to October to NT$3.2 trillion ($104.6 billion), 5.8% …

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PMA Research Moves Into FPD Reporting

by Raverstead

PMA Research is to begin a flat-panel display tracking service, in addition to its projector tracking. The FPD Tracking reports will be compiled from monthly sell-through data provided by a panel of pro-AV dealers …

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Toshiba’s Easyguard Protects its Professional Hybrid

by Raverstead

Toshiba’s new professional laptop, the Portege Z20T, is a Core-M unit that takes aim at Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 and Dell’s Venue 11 Pro 7000. As a convertible model, the Z20T’s 12.5″ display can …

Perch Shows Projection Based Digital Signage Solution

by Helen Vince

Digital Signage – Perch is a New York based company focusing on creating a point of product display solution. While this is nothing new in general, Perch uses a combination of technologies to provide …

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The Latin American Perspective on the Display World

by Helen Vince

SID Latin Display Conference – I’m currently in Brazil for the annual Latin Display conference – an SID event that is run to help to educate display users in Brazil, and give an opportunity …

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DPAA Video Everywhere Summit Says Digital Advertising is Taking-Off

by Helen Vince

DPAA – The DPAA (Digital Place Based Advertising Association) organized The Video Everywhere Summit on November 4 in New York City. The conference addresses the advertising industry, agencies, advertisers and digital signage networks (digital out of …

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Large Format Display Applications at TGM 2014

by Helen Vince

Large Display, User Interface – Touch Gesture Motion 2014 in Austin, Texas, October 28-30, 2014, offered several presentations involving large format display applications. A key observation by several presenters and attendees at TGM 2014 was …

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