Vol 23 – Issue 20 – Page 5

Facebook Takes on VR ‘Experts’

by Tom Allen

Facebook has hired a team of VR ‘experts’ in London, according to The Telegraph. The recruitment creates Facebook’s first European base for its Oculus division. Mike LeBeau leads the UK team. He is a …

Nokia Begins Layoffs at Home

by Tom Allen

Nokia has confirmed that it is cutting more than 1,000 jobs in its home country of Finland. The reduction will affect all business units, excluding Nokia Technologies. The majority will take place during the …

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Content Creation Must Change with Consumption

by Tom Allen

There is a special guest at the DTG Summit every year, and in 2016 that was Nathalie Nahai, the ‘web psychologist’. Although not directly involved in the media, she used her experience to speak …

Fragmentation and Standardisation Challenge Media Industry

by Tom Allen

The first panel of the day was titled ‘Threats to the UK media and tech industry’. It was chaired by MD of Decipher Nigel Walley. Panelists were Channel 4 CTO Orpheus Warr; media consultant …

Clearink and Jinfu’s JV Brings ePaper to New Places

by Tom Allen

Clearink Displays and Suzhou Jinfu have established a joint venture in Shanghai, to commercialise Clearink’s reflective display technology. It will be used for ePaper applications in China. The joint venture will address both established …

Everything Tends Towards Order – Except Broadcast

by Tom Allen

In early May we visited the annual Digital Television Group (DTG) Summit in London, which brings together stakeholders to discuss the UK TV industry. Now in its 10th year, the event was once again …

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Project Ara is Coming This Year

by Tom Allen

Google has announced that its Project Ara modular phone will become a reality this year. Developers will be able to buy a phone with six module slots in the autumn, with a consumer model …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 20

White Paper Looks at Signage in the Classroom

by Tom Allen

Mvix has released a whitepaper examining the use of digital signage in US education; specifically the ‘Kindergarten-to-12-year-old’, or K-12, segment. The paper looks at the student-teacher dynamic and how technology can aid it, especially …

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SID: Colour E Ink, Flexible AMOLEDs, New QDs – and More!

by Tom Allen

SID 2016 is ongoing at the time of writing, and we will have a full report for you in the coming weeks. For now, we have summarised some of the key announcements from the …

Samsung Flirts With IPTV

by Tom Allen

Bloomberg reports that Samsung is seeking to enter the online TV world, in an attempt to compete with traditional broadcasters. People familiar with the matter said that Samsung has asked media companies how much …

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Exertis Stocks InFocus

by Tom Allen

Exertis is now distributing projectors from InFocus in Belgium and the Netherlands.

OLEDs Will Approach $60 Billion Within the Decade

by Tom Allen

IDTechEx has predicted that the OLED display market will reach a value of almost $16 billion this year, growing to $57 billion in 2026. The market for plastic and flexible AMOLED displays will reach …

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