Vol 24 – Issue 09 – Page 2

Signotec Uses Tablet for Signatures on Complex Documents

by Bob Raikes

At the forthcoming CeBIT show, Signotec will show a specialist 10.1″ tablet that is designed for reading documents and capturing signatures. The product uses a 10.1″ 1280 x 800 resolution TN LCD colour display …

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Apple Suppliers Boost Capex

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes has reported that two companies in the supply chain for touch on iPhones, General Interface Solutions and TPK Holdings, have both set aside substantial sums for capital investment ($163 million and $151 million, …

LG Electronics to Supply AVM System to Geely

by Bob Raikes

The ETNews in Korea reports that LG Electronics is supplying an ‘Around View Monitor’ (AVM) to Geely, a Chinese auto make, the first time that LG has supplied a Chinese maker according to the …

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Sumitomo to Open New Factory for Curved OLED Displays

by Alan Spencer

A report in the Nikkei Asian Review suggests that Sumitomo Chemical intends to triple its manufacturing capacity to over 100 million curved OLED displays by setting up a new factory in Korea. The total …

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Spo-book Kumo IV Can Drive Four UHD Displays

by Bob Raikes

SPO-comm has a new UltraHD Media Player, the spo-book Kumo IV, that can be used for VR or for high end digital signage. The box is based on an Intel Core i5-6400T CPU (Skylake) …

IT Spending Growth to Slow

by Milos Pavlovic

IDC has forecast that overall IT spending growth will slow down from the 5%-6% seen between 2102 and 2015 to around 3%, bringing spending this year to $3.5 trillion. The IT industry will see …

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GCC Mobile Market Rebounds in Q4 2016

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, the Gulf Cooperation Council region’s smartphone shipments in Q4 2016 were 5.98 million units, up 7.7% on quarter three. Prior to this the GCC suffered three consecutive quarter-on-quarter declines from Q1 …

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IHS Markit Talks Up 4K and 8K

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit put out a press release highlighting that the UltraHD TV market will be dominated by China which is expected to take 42% of all the UHD TVs in 2017. The data was …

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Taiwan LED Makers Up in February

by Bob Raikes

LED specialist, Everlight Electronics, had sales of NT$2,140 billion ($70 million) in February, up 4.9% on January and 1.72% on February last year. Also in LED, Lextar Electronics was down 0.77% on January at …

Asustek to Choose OLED for HMDs?

by Bob Raikes

Asustek is likely to choose Samsung Display to supply OLED displays for the headsets that it is developing for Microsoft’s Mixed Reality platform (previously Holographic) according to Digitimes, while the headsets are likely to …

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MediaTek’s Revenues for January Fall to 12-Month Low

by Alan Spencer

Consolidated revenues for MediaTek fell last month to a 12-month low of $547.2 million. Seasonal factors were given as the reason, as well as the strong US dollar. According to market watchers, It is …

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Pioneer Blu-Ray Drive can Write UltraHD Discs

by Bob Raikes

Pioneer has added to its line of Blu-ray devices for PCs with the BDR-211UBK which supports Blu-ray UltraHD reading and writing so that it can be used for creating UltraHD Blu-rays. It’s an internal …

Tags:Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 09