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Escatec Claims 10x LED-Cooling Improvement

by Tom Allen

Escatec is to launch an LED-cooling solution, which has implications for displays, at the LED Professional Symposium, between 22nd and 24th September in Austria. The Heat Spreader solution uses LEDs soldered onto a copper …

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Amazon to Acquire Elemental Technologies

by Helen Vince

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reached an agreement to acquire Elemental Technologies, a US-based supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to AWS, …

Emagin to Raise $4.5 Million

by Helen Vince

Emagin is to raise $4.5 million through the sale of shares, and will use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes, including R&D, sales and marketing, and working capital”. The company has entered into an …

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Samsung Takes Over Austrian Metro

by Helen Vince

Samsung took over the entire 109 DOOH screens in Vienna’s Stephansplatz metro station for own week at the beginning of this month, to promote its new Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. The station deploys 32″ …

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Huawei’s Smartphone Shipments to Break 100 Million Units in 2015

by Helen Vince

According to a new report from Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), Huawei outperformed the rest of the smartphone market in Q2, selling 28.2 million smartphones, up 54.9% from Q1. MIC believes that …

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Freeview Play Set for October Launch

by Helen Vince

Freeview Play is set to launch in October on TVs from Panasonic, Humax, Vestel and Manhattan TV. Guy North, managing director of Freeview, said: “We believe that Freeview Play is set to become the …

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Parker Highlights the Windows 10 Wave

by Tom Allen

Microsoft’s keynote speech, by Nick Parker (corporate VP of the OEM division), was really just an excuse to show off the new Windows 10 devices that have been launched in recent months, as well …

TPK Sees August Sales Rise

by Helen Vince

TPK Holding saw sales in August rise 23.9% sequentially and 12.1% year on year to NT$11.8 billion ($362.3 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$74 billion ($2.3 billion). The company has said …

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US FCC Grants Licence for ATSC 3.0 Trial

by Helen Vince

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a temporary licence to One Media, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Coherent Logix, to conduct a trial of the ATSC 3.0 standard in …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Inverto to License Software Stacks

by Tom Allen

Inverto has announced that it will offer its HTML5 browser and HbbTV software stacks to Android-based STB and TV manufacturers. Inverto developed the software to support its hybrid STB range for the HD+ market …

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Vestel Looks to Automotive and Better Pixels

by Tom Allen

Vestel is one of the world’s largest display makers, but most people visiting IFA will have never heard the name. This is because the majority of TVs and public displays made by the company …

Digital Focus is All About Cameras

by Tom Allen

Taking place in the Grand Hyatt Hotel again, Digital Focus is a press event that is – technically – not affiliated with IFA. Unlike Showstoppers, companies do not need to have space on the …