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Panasonic Signs as Olympic Ceremony Partner

by Tom Allen

Panasonic, for the first time, will be an Official Ceremony Partner of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company will provide more than 100 of its PT-DZ21K2 projectors, multiple broadcast-grade AV-HS6000 series …

And Finally – Vol 23 No 01

by Tom Allen

Late last year, Jaguar pulled what some might call ‘a stunt preying on peoples’ expectations’, and others would refer to as ‘brilliant marketing’. Let’s just say that it involves virtual reality – but, then …

Boldman Mounts LED Screen on Listed Building

by Tom Allen

Aluminium construction company, Boldman, is seeing increasing adoption of its frames for large-scale LED screens. Work was recently completed on a 13.9m x 7.8m x 0.6m framework for a screen (10mm pixel pitch, 6,000 …

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A new boss for Tech Data

by Milos Pavlovic

Dorothee Stolzenberg, previously with Dell and Microsoft has joined Tech Data as Country Manager for Austria. She previously worked for C2000 as Component BU Manager in the early ’90s.

New BlackBerry Products Will Run Android

by Bob Raikes

BlackBerry confirmed to CNet at this year’s CES that Blackberry’s own OS has come to an end and that all new products will run Android. The BlackBerry OS will still be supplied on existing …

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Huawei: Europe Will Boost Phone Shipments

by Tom Allen

Sources in the handset supply chain say that Huawei expects to ship 120 million smartphones this year, up from 108 million last year and 75 million in 2014. The company believes that its business …

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Innolux Sees 15% Decline in 2015

by Bob Raikes

Innolux’s sales grew by 3.8$ to NT$26.4 billion ($792m) in December, but were still down 30.8% on the year ago period. 10.21 million large panels were shipped, 5.8% up on November, while small and …

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More Android TVs coming this year

by Bob Raikes

The official Android blog has said that there will be a lot of new Android TVs in the market this year. The blog said: “If you’re looking for a new TV, you can select …

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SiTune Releases Tuner for 8K Broadcasts

by Bob Raikes

SiTune Corporation of San Jose has said that it has developed the STN6528, the first tuner capable of supporting the new Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting Standard (ARIB STD-B44) for broadcasting 8K digital …

eMagin Wins Deal for 4MP Displays

by Milos Pavlovic

eMagin said that it has signed a non-exclusive intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement for its unique 4 MegaPixel per eye immersive virtual reality headset technology with an undisclosed company. The deal includes an upfront …

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Intel and Google Team Up on Realsense Phone

by Tom Allen

A smartphone developer kit with Intel’s Realsense and Google’s Project Tango (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9) technology has been announced. The 6″ device (2560 x 1440 resolution) costs $400 and features a 0.3MP …

Top Chip Vendors Beat Market Downturn

by Tom Allen

Semiconductor revenue totaled $333.7 billion in 2015, a 1.9% YoY decrease from $340.3 billion a year earlier. The top 25 vendors’ combined revenue rose 0.2% and accounted for 73.2% of total market revenue. The …