Vol 23 - Issue 46

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LG OLED TVs Cheap in Black Friday Build-up

by Bob Raikes

Although readers of our pdf version may not be viewing the news until Black Friday is well and truly here, we thought it worthwhile to report that LG’s OLED55B6P UltraHD OLED TV is selling …

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Ericsson Mobility Report Sees High Growth

by Bob Raikes

Ericsson has released its annual report on mobile data and communications and said that it believes that the US will be an important market for 5G mobile connectivity, with 25% of all subscriptions being …

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Mixed Reality Comes to Shakespeare

by Bob Raikes

The BBC has reported on a project at the historic Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK that uses mixed reality. Along with live actors, a production of “The Tempest” includes an …

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Gartner Says Chinese Only Winners in Q3

by Bob Raikes

Gartner highlighted with its Q3 global smartphone sales data that Huawei, Oppo and BBK, all from China, between them took 21% of the global market in the period. They were the only smartphone vendors …

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Visionect & BePooler

by Bob Raikes

BePooler of Switzerland has set up a system for reserving free parking systems for commuters that use the company’s Park and Ride scheme, which helps those that want to share cars on their commute. …

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Smartsign Now Supports Tizen

by Bob Raikes

SmartSign software of Sweden has joined Signagelive in supporting the latest Samsung Tizen smart signage platform. The company said that it had been working with Samsung on the technology development. Analyst Comment These are …

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iPhone – Made in the USA?

by Norbert Hildebrand

If you haven’t heard about the USA elections you must be living on a different planet. Since the election is now over, it’s time to look at the aftermath of a very interesting campaign. …

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Dell

Dell Mistake Costs in Mexico

by Bob Raikes

After advertising PCs for just the cost of shipping, Dell has been told by Mexico’s federal consumer protection agency Profeco that it must honour the offer. The high end gaming notebooks, would normally have …

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Apple

Apple To Fix iPhone 6 Plus ‘Touch disease’ for $149

by Bob Raikes

Apple has decided to offer a service to fix a fault, known as “touch disease” on the iPhone 6 Plus. The service is a standard fee for otherwise working units (with non-cracked and working …

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DVB Approves HDR, HFR and NGA for Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

The DVB Steering Board has approved the specification for the Ultra High Definition Television, UHD-1 Phase 2 stage. That should mean, DVB believes, that products will come to market in 2017 with support for …

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NYC Media Lab Five-Minute Pitches

by Chris Chinnock

The Future Media Lab from NYU Engineering profiled their live VR performance of Hamlet during this session and demonstrated it in the nearby demo area. This may be the first demonstration of this kind. …

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FOVE Shows Eyetracking Technology

by Chris Chinnock

Fove had a demo and a presentation at the Exploring Future Reality workshop where they showed their eyetracking technology. This is based upon six IR emitters and two sensors and is integrated into their …

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