Vol 24 – Issue 22 – Page 3

German Court Upholds Injunction Against Everlight

by Yvette Raikes

Nichia and Everlight have a history of disputes over patents going back five years. In Germany, the Düsseldorf District Court found in favour of Nichia (Nichia Wins Injunction Against Everlight in Germany) in November …

Media Strategy Driven by Direct-to-consumer Technology

by Yvette Raikes

Technological advances, such as VR, are driving direct-to-consumer strategies, according to the global entertainment and media outlook for 2017 to 2021 from PwC. The consumer VR content market is expected to be worth $15.1 …

PixelDisplay: Old Wine in a New Bottle

by Ken Werner

PixelDisplay CTO, David Wyatt, is a passionate salesman, and he frequently gathered a small crowd around him as he discussed the introduction of his company’s Vivid Color light-source technology at his I-Zone booth at …

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Eizo Makes Monitor Test Available

by Bob Raikes

Monitor maker, Eizo, has released a set of monitor tests on its global website to help monitor buyers to evaluate products or check their monitors for quality and pixel defects. There are 13 tests …

Insight TV’s HD Channels Now Available on Freenet TV

by Alan Spencer

The German DVB-T2 HD platform launched as freenet TV, now has access to Insight TV’s adventure travel and extreme sports channels. The distribution deal sees Insight TV’s HD channel distributed on the HbbTV-compatible service, …

Tags:Germany| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 24 - Issue 22

LED Display Prices Under Pressure

by Bob Raikes

An unconfirmed report from Digitimes suggests that there has been a big drop in LED pricing of up to 20% because of a move by Absen that others have reacted to. Analyst Comment We’ll …

Tags:Absen| Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Foxconn Adds Apple and Amazon to Toshiba Bid

by Bob Raikes

Terry Gou of Foxconn has told the Nikkei that Apple and Amazon are participating in the bid that Foxconn is making to try to acquire the Toshiba semiconductor business as the Japanese company tries …

Apple Updates iPad Pro Models…

by Bob Raikes

Apple introduced a new 10.5″ iPad Pro and a new version of the 12.9″ iPad Pro. The new 10.5″ tablet features small borders to reduce the size and with the weight of 1lb (450 …

News Sites Can’t Add Up – Fake News?

by Bob Raikes

Close to press time, we were writing up a story, widely reported by many web blogs that ran, as below: “Strategy Analytics pointed out in a report that Apple took 83.4% of the profits …

Mobile AR Users to Reach 1bn+ by 2021

by Bob Raikes

Digi-Capital has published an interesting blog that suggests that there will be an ‘epic battle’ between Facebook, Apple, Google, Tencent, Snap, Alibaba, Baidu, Samsung, Huawei and more after Mark Zuckerberg’s comment in April that …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Apple Announces iOS 11 with Many New Features Including AR

by Norbert Hildebrand

At its Worldwide developer conference, Apple announced many new features for iOS 11 that will be coming to the consumer in the fall of this year. For now, the features will be made available …

Introducing Electrick Technology for Flexible Touch

by Arthur Berman

One of the big advantages of touch screens is that their use is intuitive. The implementation of touch screen technology does, however, have several practical disadvantages including the fact that current touch screen technologies …

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