Vol 21 – Issue 50 – Page 9

Microsoft Invites to ‘Next Chapter’ of Windows

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft will be holding an event to unveil the ‘next chapter’ of Windows 10 on 21st January. Several executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, will be present at the event (at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, …

Mervin Encrusts Apple Watch With Diamonds

by Bob Raikes

As if the Apple Watch weren’t expensive enough, how about raising the price to almost 10 times the original? Mervis Diamond Importers, of the USA, will produce its own model using 18ct rose gold …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Intel Takes to the High Seas

by Bob Raikes

Royal Carribean’s new vessel, Quantum of the Seas, is the world’s first ‘smartship’. Part of the reason for this is the 15,000 Dell Venue tablets positioned around the ship at point-of-sale locations. 40,000 tablets, …

Google Glass Enters San Francisco Fine Arts Museum

by Bob Raikes

While Google Glass is still in extended beta release for consumers, the corporate world seems to take much more positively to augmented reality. The latest announcement shows Google Glass being used in the Fine …

Apple 1 Misses Estimate at Auction

by Bob Raikes

A working Apple 1 computer has been sold in London for ‘only’ $365,000. Admittedly this is many times the price of most modern PCs, but is less than the Christie’s valuation of $400,000 – …

Analogix Passes One Billion DisplayPort Devices

by Bob Raikes

Analogix Semiconductor, creator of the DisplayPort interface, said that it has now shipped more than 1 billion DisplayPort devices into the consumer electronics market.

Digital Life Matters; Displays Don’t

by Helen Vince

Displays – At least, not as much as they used to. In our era, hardware – including displays – quickly becomes commoditized. That is not to say that you can’t obtain a temporary competitive advantage with …

Tags:Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Top LED and Laser Technologies for Displays from 2014

by Helen Vince

Display Components – I was browsing through an article at Laser Focus World (LFW) titled “Technology Review: Top 20 technologies for 2014 cover the range from basic R&D to new apps” by LFW Senior …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laser| LED| Quantum Dots| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Pivot Time

by Helen Vince

Display Technology – So many web-ventures find they need to change course after starting-up that pundits call this “the pivot”. Pivoting away from the initial business plan and taking investors down a different path has …

Tags:business| Display Supply & Demand| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Television and the Winds of Change

by Helen Vince

TV – As 2014 winds to a close and the next International CES looms large, it’s time to take a look at some of the unprecedented changes that are re-shaping the “business” of television – …

Tags:Streaming Video| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Progress Reported on Optically Rewritable LCD Technology

by Arthur Berman

Technology – A new Optical Rewritable Liquid Crystal Display (ORWLCD) technology is under development by a team in the Center for Display Research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. ORWLCD is based on a …

Tags:LCD displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Stereo 3D| Vol 21 - Issue 50