Vol 22 - Issue 32

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Planar Result 11/08/2015

by Helen Vince

Planar Systems Inc. has released its third quarter results, posting a net loss of $293,000 on turnover of $42.5 million, which compares with a net profit in Q3 of last year of $706,000 on …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Planar| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Nvidia Result 11/08/2015

by Helen Vince

Nvidia Corporation posted a second quarter net profit of $26 million, down 79% from $128 million in Q2 of last year, on turnover which was flat year on year at $1.1 billion. Net profit …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 32

JOLED Invests in OLED Printing

by Tom Allen

JOLED plans to create a research and development centre in spring next year, where work will be done to establish technologies for mid-size OLED mass production. Established by Sony and Panasonic, JOLED is targeting …

Tags:Japan| JOLED| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Aiptek Bundles Projector and Tablet

by Tom Allen

A tablet with an integrated DLP projector, the ProjectorPad P70, has been developed by Aiptek. It is a 7″ tablet, but using the projector the on-screen image can be mirrored and displayed at a …

Tags:Embedded Pico Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Foxconn to Invest $5 Billion in India

by Helen Vince

Foxconn has signed an agreement with India’s Maharashtra state for a five year, $5 billion investment in a new electronic manufacturing facility. Company founder, Terry Gou, said earlier this week that he was considering …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| India| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Innolux July Sales Fell 18% YoY

by Helen Vince

Innolux said sales in July fell 1.7% sequentially and 18.6% year on year, to NT$29.7 billion ($938.2 million), bringing sales for the first seven months of the year to NT$123.4 billion ($3.8 billion). The …

Tags:Financial Data| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 32

$3 Billion OLED Investment by SDC

by Tom Allen

A report from Korea’s Money Today claims that Samsung Display is to invest $3 billion to expand OLED display module facilities in Vietnam. The result would be a more vertically-integrated supply chain in the …

Tags:APAC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Smart Result 06/07/2015

by Bob Raikes

Smart Technologies Inc reported its financials for its first fiscal quarter to the end of June. Revenue was down by 20% year on year to $98.7 million, and there was a loss of $3.7 …

Tags:Financial Data| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Smart Technologies Inc| Vol 22 - Issue 32

JCDecaux Replaces Clear Channel in London

by Tom Allen

JCDecaux has won ‘the world’s largest bus shelter advertising contract’, in London. Awarded by Transport for London, the contract is worth €700 million over a period of eight years. The current contract is held …

Tags:DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Smartphones Overtake Laptops in UK

by Tom Allen

Smartphones have overtaken laptops as the UK’s most popular device for accessing the internet, according to research by Ofcom. 66% of Brits now own a smartphone, using it for almost two hours every day …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Processing Raises Philips Monitor to 12-bit

by Tom Allen

Seeking to cater to professional users, Philips/MMD’s new 27″ monitor (272P4APJKEB) is a 27″ unit with 12-bit colour, an IPS panel and high resolution. ‘PerfectKolor’ is Philips’s name for factory-calibrated colour; this applies to …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 22 - Issue 32

Time for a Pebble Improvement

by Tom Allen

A new version of Pebble’s Time smartwatch is now available to pre-order. The Pebble Time Steel will be shipped within eight weeks. It is essentially the same as the highest-priced version of the watch, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 32