Vol 23 – Issue 11 – Page 4

Rockwell Collins Can Eliminate Passports and Boarding Passes

by Bob Raikes

Rockwell Collins were almost over-enthusiastic in the pursuit of us by its PR people. We don’t think of the firm for applications in the area of flight information, but two years ago, it bought …

Sony Assists in Live UHD Trials

by Tom Allen

Sony has taken part in successful streaming trials of live UltraHD sporting events. These included the first North American football (soccer) broadcast in the format by Univision Deportes. The events were streamed using the …

Net Display Systems Covers All Bases

by Bob Raikes

Net Display Systems was demonstrating its Pads 4 digital signage software (mentioned by the firm’s UK distributor, Anders and Kern when we met the company at the Retail Digital Signage Expo, last week). When …

Cord-Shaving Outweighs Cord-Cutting

by Tom Allen

Research by Nielsen suggests that cord-cutting concerns are not as well-founded as expected. Most consumers are likely to cut back on, but not cancel, their pay-TV services, and complement them with streaming services like …

Flexible Will be Fastest-Growing OLED Segment to 2018

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association (OLED-A) expects the OLED market to grow at a 22% CAGR between 2014 and 2018 – with capacity growth from 1 million m² in 2009 to 6.8 million m² by the …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 11

by Tom Allen

The TCG121WX 12″ TFT-LCD module from Kyocera (MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 21) is now available in Europe. Nokia has shared the price of its Ozo VR camera (Nokia Announces Ozo VR …

Microsoft Widens Windows 10 Availability

by Tom Allen

Windows 10 Mobile is now available for older Lumia phones. Only phones that will receive an upgrade to the user experience – i.e., installing Windows 10 will not slow them down – are eligible. …

Detachables to Drive European PC Market

by Tom Allen

Detachable tablet demand will drive the European PC and tablet market in the near future, says IDC. Detachable and slate tablet shipments will have a 51% share of the overall client computing (PC and …

Smartwatches Will Remain Dominant to 2020

by Tom Allen

An expanding vendor base, as well as rising consumer awareness and demand, will push annual wearable growth to double digits between 2015 and 2020, says IDC. This year, worldwide shipments are expected to reach …

Xiaomi Delays Notebook

by Tom Allen

Taiwan-based supply chain sources claim that Xiaomi will delay the launch of its first notebook (previously rumoured to be 15″, most recently said to be 12.5″) until Q2’16 – one quarter behind the original …

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UMC Result 27/01/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) reported net profit of NT$3.16 billion ($96 million), a decline of 30% YoY from NT$4.56 billion. Turnover was NT$33.85 billion ($1.03 billion), a 9% decline from NT$37.24 billion ($1.12 billion). …

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Forecast for AR and VR Promises the Next Big Thing

by Norbert Hildebrand

Whenever a new technology comes along, the ultimate question is ‘How much revenue will it create?’. In the case of VR and AR most researchers see this as a high potential technology that is …