Vol 24 – Issue 19 – Page 5

German Museums Have Joint Interactive Exhibits

by Yvette Raikes

The Leibnitz Association has eight research museums in Germany. Thanks to interactive technology, all eight can be involved in a joint simultaneous exhibition. The museums will each be showing individual objects, but the exhibition …

IHS Markit Sees First Positive Year-Over-Year Smartphone Shipment Gains in Two Years

by Milos Pavlovic

The global smartphone market continues its recovery, with the top three Chinese OEMs posting impressive gains according to IHS Markit. Samsung continued to lead the pack in smartphone shipments during the first quarter of …

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Taiwan Panel Makers Should be Up in Q2

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research has forecast that Taiwan-based LCD makers will ship 304 million small to medium panels in Q2 2017, 2.8% up on Q1 and 13.0% up on the year. 15.5% will be based on …

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Asustek Moves Away From Consumer Desktop PCs

by Yvette Raikes

Asustek will produce fewer desktop PCs in future, instead concentrating on the enterprise sector in China and Taiwan and all-in-one PCs, according to Digitimes. A decline in the PC market has seen global sales …

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Element Amazon TVs Start to Ship – What Happens to Seiki?

by Bob Raikes

The Tong Fang-owned Element brand has launched the Amazon Fire-based UltraHD TVs that it showed at CES this year. There will be 43″ ($449), 50″ ($549), 55″ ($649) and 65″ ($899) models and they …

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Technicolor Licenses Frog by Wyplay

by Yvette Raikes

Technicolor has been integrating Wyplay’s pay-TV STB middleware into its offerings for operators in France, Poland and Spain for some time. Now the company has become a Frog by Wyplay licensee and will be …

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eMagin to Showcase New AMOLED Micro Display at Display Week 2017

by Norbert Hildebrand

The dance card for SID Display week is quickly filling up. As the next contender, eMagin is announcing a new full color AMOLED display with a resolution of 2,000 x 2,000 pixel and peak …

Business vs. Politics

by Norbert Hildebrand

For many years, or better, decades, it has been a clear business understanding that political influence over business decisions will never work. Even though there were examples of short term success , the long …

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Oculus Makes Breakthrough on Vergence/Accomodation Conflict

by Norbert Hildebrand

If you are going to Siggraph in Los Angeles later this year, you may want to mark your calendar for a talk given by Oculus about a new class of displays they call ‘Focal …

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BT To Show Champions League Final in VR

by Bob Raikes

BT has said that it will broadcast the UEFA Champions League final in a number of 360°streams on YouTube and the new BT Sport Virtual Reality App, allowing viewers to choose between a 360°produced …

FlexEnable’s Plastic LCDs Aimed at Automotive

by Bob Raikes

FlexEnable plans to talk about its latest free-form and flexible LCDs at next week’s SID event, in the Automotive special event. The displays have been developed with Merck (Merck To Promote LCD, OLED and …

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HTC U11 Beats Google Pixel

by Yvette Raikes

HTC has launched its U11 smartphone. It has a 5.5″ LCD screen (1440 x 2560 pixels) and runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Based on a Snapdragon 835, it can have up to 6G of RAM …

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