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LDM Product Roundup Vol 23 No 05

by Tom Allen

As was rumoured last month (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 03), LG has announced that its flagship G6 OLED TV will cost $8,000. The company has started to take pre-orders for the …

Swisscom TV Grew in 2015

by Isaac Oburu

Swisscom’s TV access lines rose by 166,000, or 14.2%, YoY in 2015 to 1.33 million. Over 60% of subscribers use the cloud-based service Swisscom TV 2.0.

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Vodafone Enjoys Q4 Growth

by Isaac Oburu

Vodafone has announced that it had 9.4 million TV customers at the end of the year, up from 9.2 million at the end of September. Integrated TV bundles such as Vodafone Red (Germany) and …

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Charter in the US has announced an increase in video subscribers for Q4’15 and 2015 as a whole. According to Charter, video customers increased by 29,000 in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with …

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Solar Tectics Receives Patents for Making Large Grain Crystal Si Films

by Norbert Hildebrand

If you have not heard of Solar Tectics before, you are not alone. The company has received patents (in 2015 actually) on creating single crystal Si films at low temperatures. This is of interest …

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Barnes & Noble Begins Month-Long Nook Promotion

by Isaac Oburu

Barnes & Noble has announced its trade-in/trade-up promotion. Customers can visit any Barnes & Noble store to take advantage of the trade-in/trade-up promotion. All Nook devices are eligible, except the Nook GlowLight Plus and …

PSCo Takes Absen N Series

by Isaac Oburu

PSCo is now distributing Absen’s new N Series LED range. All of the modules are front installation and front service hence no rear access is needed at any stage of the product lifecycle.

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Comcast Releases Its 4Q Results

by Isaac Oburu

Comcast Corporation has announced results for the quarter and year ended December 31,2015. According to the results, video customer net additions were 89,000 and net losses were 36,000.

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Carloudy: An Automotive Head-Up Display

by Arthur Berman

During recent years, head-up displays (HUDs) have become available as an option in some luxury car models. Now, an aftermarket alternative is under development by Cognitive AI Technologies Inc. (Chicago, IL). The device is …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 05

by Tom Allen

The Microsoft Surface Book will be launched in Germany on the 18th February. An update to Android 6.0 is being rolled out to the Sony Xperia M5 smartphone now.

Gimmick or Godsend: AR/VR in Education

by Len Scrogan

Quick Search: Research is a new series dedicated to unpacking some of the emerging research on 3D, VR, and other dynamic visualization technologies. See my introductory article for this series, entitled Good, Better, Best: …