Vol 24 – Issue 02 – Page 8

JCDecaux Displays in the Basque Region

by Yvette Raikes

JCDecaux has extended its coverage in the Basque region of France. Its contracts with the cities of Bayonne and Anglet have been extended by 18 and 15 years respectively. The company has also won …

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DOOH Used to Stop Smoking

by Yvette Raikes

In Stockholm, Sweden, a pharmacy chain has placed a DOOH poster in the city centre which ‘coughs’ if anyone passes by smoking. The screen has been fitted with a smoke detector and is to …

MediaTek Will See Weak Start to 2017

by Yvette Raikes

MediaTek’s Q1 shipments of smartphone chipsets are predicted to fall by 20% QoQ, according to the China-based Commercial Times. It cited lower demand for entry-level models in India and keen price competition. MediaTek’s Helio …

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Smartphone Market to Depend on Component Supply

by Bob Raikes

Sources in Asia are pointing to shortages of key components of displays as well as memory and optical sensors as being potential blocks to the growth of brands below the top rank that are …

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Philips 40″ Curved Monitor Ships

by Bob Raikes

Philips has started shipping the new version of its 40″ display, the BDM4037UW that we saw at IFA (Philips Launches First OLED TV with Ambilight). The UltraHD monitor has a wider colour gamut of …

Altice Reports US Viewing Data

by Yvette Raikes

Altice has released the results of its analysis of the viewing trends of its Optimum TV customers in its USA Data Flash Review. Live tune-in continues to be the popular way of watching (91.9%), …

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A New Means to Produce Graphene Has Display Applications

by Arthur Berman

This week’s news contained a report that, for the first time, OLED electrodes have been produced from graphene. The process was developed and optimized as part of an EU-funded program called the “Gladiator” project. …

Ultra HD Blu-ray Players at CES 2017

by Chris Chinnock

CES 2017 saw the launch of several new Ultra HD Blu-ray disc players from existing players and some new companies as well. According to the Blu-ray Disc Association, roughly 300K standalone Ultra HD Blu-ray …

Qualcomm Moves to 10nm with 820/821

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin started by saying that Qualcomm started by moving the mobile phone from analogue …

Intel Focuses on VR at Press Event

by Bob Raikes

Intel held a press event that it said was the most technically complex press event that it had ever staged as it had set up high powered VR systems for all of the press …

Tobii Looking at Gaming, Power and Mobiles

by Bob Raikes

We caught up with Tobii in its meeting room where we found the company in a very positive mood as it has been expanding the range of support that it has received. Whereas last …

Panasonic still in CE – If not in US TV

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic held its regular press event and, as it has done at the last several that we have attended, it started with discussions about smart cities. The “Smart cities” topic is a big story …