Vol 22 – Issue 04 – Page 8

New Price Point Achieved for Lumia Series

by Vanessa Browning

Microsoft showed off a low-cost feature phone at CES (since 2013, the company has made its biggest announcements at its own events), and has now revealed two affordable Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones: the Lumia …

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Efun Expects Rising Shipments on TV Replacements

by Tom Allen

Optical film maker Efun expects its shipments to South Korea and Japanese LCD TV makers to rise ‘significantly’ this year. Demand will be driven by rising sales of UltraHD TVs and replacements of older …

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Lenovo Mulls Public Offering for Smart Device Business

by Helen Vince

Lenovo’s CEO, Yang Yuanqing, has said that the company would consider a public offering for its new smart device business, as Lenovo targets the rising interest in smart connected homes. The new unit will …

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Acer Appoints New UK Manager

by Helen Vince

Acer has appointed Gavin Parrish as UK & Ireland country manager, replacing Marco Andresen who moves to take on a role within the European management team. The new appointment comes after the sudden departure of …

LG Takes Part in Mass Fast Food Signage Rollout

by Tom Allen

650 McDonald’s locations in the USA are receiving a digital signage upgrade from LG, in collaboration with Stratacache. The new integrated menu board solution uses Stratacache’s ActiVia for Media 4.0 software, installed on a …

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Matrox Brings Graphics and Controllers to DSE

by Vanessa Browning

At Digital Signage Expo 2015 (11th – 12th March, Las Vegas), Matrox (stand #1,645) will present its C-Series multi-display graphics cards; Matrox Mura videowall controller boards; and Matrox Maevex AV-over-IP encoders/decoders.

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Haier Builds on IFA Releases

by Tom Allen

TVs were Haier’s focus at CES; while the company has a range of mobile devices, it introduces them at different shows, including IFA. On the subject of IFA, several products from the 2014 show …

MediaTek Sets up ‘The Bomb’

by Tom Allen

Reports from China claim that Mediatek is working on a processor with ten (deca) or twelve (dodeca) cores, neatly bypassing the 64-bit octa-core processors that are being released today. According to GizChina, the new …

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Quanta Ramping 12″ MacBook Air Production

by Tom Allen

Volume production of a 12″ Macbook Air, which will be launched in Q1’15, has begun at Quanta Computer. The company has also apparently secured orders for the Apple Watch, and intends to hire 30,000 new …

DSF Makes Board Appointments

by Helen Vince

The Digital Signage Federation in the US has named the CEO of Real Digital Media, Ken Goldberg, as its new chair of the board of directors. Richard Ventura, vice president of business development and …

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Clear Channel Daktronics billboard in Times Square

Daktronics LED video for Broadway billboard

by Tom Allen

Clear Channel Spectacolor has installed a new LED video board, from Daktronics, in Times Square, New York. The site, at 1500 Broadway, hosts a two-sided billboard; Revlon has taken over the billboard and named it …

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Planar Systems Promotes US Sales Director

by Helen Vince

Planar Systems has promoted Jeff Smith to director of sales for the central US region. Smith has over 30 years of experience in the ProAV industry.

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