Vol 21 - Issue 48

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Thanksgiving and Black Friday Break Online Sales Records

by Helen Vince

Market – The Adobe 2014 Digital Index saw a record breaking kick-off to the holiday shopping season in the US that started on Thanksgiving Day, with Adobe reporting $1.33B in online sales as shoppers combined online buying with the …

Tags:Black Friday| Retail Data| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Juniper Research Publishes Market Forecast for Wearables

by Helen Vince

Market Forecast – Wearable devices are the darling of the season with many looking forward to the reception of the Apple Watch.  Juniper Research has meanwhile released its new “Smart Health & Fitness Wearables: Device …

Tags:Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Wearable Market

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TV Anywhere, or TV Nowhere?

by Helen Vince

TV – A fascinating article appeared in early November in the New York Times titled For Millennials, the End of the TV Viewing Party. The author talks about the early days of television, when family and neighbors would gather …

Tags:Cable| Pay TV| TV (Television)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Google Glass at the Crossroads

by Helen Vince

Augmented Reality – Google Glass has been a topic for very many articles in the past but with an email from Google headquarters, this all could go away in a heartbeat. Several recent publications suggest that …

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Whoosh! There it is!

by Helen Vince

3D in Education – I enjoy reporting on new products that have their eye on reaching the education market. One such product is the new Whoosh 3D. Whoosh3D is a three-pronged solution: a 3D app; a 3D-enabled …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Education| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Spain Not Ready for Digital

by Raverstead

More than 1.8 million Spaniards (around 4% of the population) could lose DTT services after the country’s digital switchover is completed on 1st January. People living in areas that are traditionally difficult to distribute …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| Spain| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Acer Adjusts Brightness for Optimal Black Levels

by Raverstead

Acer’s new S1383WHNE DLP projector is a professional model with a short throw ratio. Able to throw a 300″ image from 3.3m, it can be used in small- and mid-size venues as well as …

Tags:Acer| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Short Throw| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Wortmann Speeds Monitors to 2ms

by Raverstead

The Terra LED 2235W and 2435W are new displays in Wortmann AG’s Green Line Plus series. They are identical, aside from their size: the 2235W is 21.5″ and the 2435W is 24″. Using TN …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Huawei Hits Out at Windows Phone – Again

by Raverstead

Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34), Huawei said that it had not made any profit on its Windows Phone venture. Now Joe Kelly, head of international media affairs, has gone a …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Windows

Audi Shows Prologue Prototype with OLED Touch Dashboard

by Raverstead

Flat panel displays are playing an increasingly larger role in car designs. The latest step in this direction is shown by Audi in its latest prototype, Audi Prologue. Audi uses three separate touch enabled …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Leaks Point to New Thin Phone

by Raverstead

News of a new Samsung phone, the Galaxy A7, has been leaked after being approved by China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Centre. According to the leak, the A7 – code-named the SM-A7009 – will have …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Wintek Sales Plunge 68%, 610 Jobs to Go

by Raverstead

Touch panel maker Wintek’s financial woes continue, as the company reported a 68% year on year fall in sales in November to NT$2.7 billion ($86.7 million), which was more than half the previous month’s …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Wintek