Vol 23 – Issue 09 – Page 3

Acer’s Gaming Line Wins at iF Awards

by Tom Allen

Acer is celebrating five iF Design Award wins, for PCs and monitors, including two units from the Predator gaming line. These were the Predator G6 desktop and Z35 curved monitor. Other winners were Acer’s …

MicroVision Result 08/03/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Microvision reported Q4 net loss of $4.3 million, up 30% YoY from $3.3 million. Turnover was $1.8 million, up 25% YoY from $0.7 million. For the full year 2015, net loss was $14.5 million, …

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DisplayPort Enabled on Aten’s New KVM

by Tom Allen

A new 2-port DisplayPort KVM switch from Aten, the CS782DP, has been designed for graphically-intensive applications. It supports resolutions up to UltraHD at 60Hz, and switching can be accomplished through a remote selector; mouse; …

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Philips Delivers Freesync on Curved Display

by Tom Allen

EPI, the brand licensee for Philips monitors in North America, has announced a new curved (4,000R) display featuring AMD’s Freesync technology. The unit is a 27″ ‘Brilliance’ monitor (279X6QJNS), with an MVA panel. SmartImage …

Digital Signage Summit Turns 10

by Tom Allen

The Digital Signage Summit Europe will take place on the 23rd and 24th June this year, in Munich. DSS Europe will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year, and NEC is again acting as both …

US Bans Exports to ZTE

by Tom Allen

China’s Ministry of Commerce has spoken out against the US sanctions against ZTE. The Ministry said that the move will ‘severely impair’ the commercial activities of Chinese firms. The USA announced export restrictions on …

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Small Panel Shipments Cannot Sustain AUO

by Tom Allen

AUO’s unaudited consolidated February revenues were down 15.3% MoM and 27.5% YoY. Revenues reached NT$20.6 billion ($627.2 million). Shipments of large-sized (10″+) panels were just under 7.1 million units, down 9.5% MoM. Small-and-medium panel …

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Olympics Used to Test 8k, WCG and HDR

by Tom Allen

UltraHD will not be broadcast from the Olympics in Rio (IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio) – but the format will not be entirely absent. Japan’s NHK will record at least some …

German Scientists Suggest Code of Conduct for Virtual Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

vnorb When a new technology gets developed, some of the consequences of such technology are always up for debate and often enable very and unexpected different applications. Just think of nuclear power versus nuclear …

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Detachables Will Change Tablet Market

by Tom Allen

IDC has forecast that worldwide tablet shipments will fall to 195 million units this year: a 5.9% fall from 2015. Positive growth, albeit single-digit, will resume in 2017, largely thanks to demand for detachable …

Clear Channel Updates Fiumicino with Absen

by Tom Allen

Aeroporti di Roma appointed Clear Channel Italy to update the advertising programme in Rome’s Fiumicino Airport in December 2013 – a project that has now been completed, with LED displays from Absen. Jonathan Goldsmid …

Workstations Shrink, But Remain Above PCs

by Tom Allen

Workstations again proved that they are not subject to the same market trends as PCs, falling only 0.8% YoY in Q4’15, and roughly the same for 2015 overall, compared to double-digit declines in PC …

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