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JCDecaux Wins Contract for São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport

by Alan Spencer

Following a competitive tender, JCDecaux won a 10-year contract for advertising at the São Paulo-Guarulhos airport in Brazil. The company has now taken over the management of the advertising space in three terminals and …

Worldwide IT Spending is Forecasted to Grow 2.4% This Year

by Alan Spencer

Gartner has predicted that worldwide IT spending will reach $3.5 trillion in 2017, which is a 2.4% increase from 2016. The growth rate is up from the previous quarter’s forecast of 1.4% due to …

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Polish On-Demand TV Service Ipla Now Available on Smart TVs

by Andrew Fenn

Cyfrowy Polsat has announced that its on-demand subscription package Ipla is available now for JVC, Toshiba, Hitachi and Telefunken Smart TVs. The firm recently signed a deal with Vestel, Europe’s largest TV manufacturer, to …

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New Pine64 Media Board Runs UltraHD HDR Video at 60 fps

by Andrew Fenn

Raspberry Pi finally has some real competition in the single-board computer market, with the imminent arrival of Pine 64’s new media board system, Rock64, the makers claim. At 85mm by 56mm, about the size …

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AR / VR and What it Means for the Consumer

by Norbert Hildebrand

For a few years now we have been talking about the great opportunities AR and VR will be bringing to the CE market. At a first glance this seems to describe a new set …

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Electrosonic Becomes Microsoft Hub Partner

by Bob Raikes

Electrosonic of the UK has become a partner of Microsoft for the Surface Hub collaboration product.

Deutsche Telekom Rolls Out with Zenterio

by Bob Raikes

Deutsche Telekom Group, the second largest multinational operator in Europe, is working with Zenterio, on what it claims is one of the market’s largest deployments of IPTV set top boxes. Rollouts are also taking …

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More Kiosks Appear in Automotive and QSR Applications

by Bob Raikes

Kiosks and ATMs seem to be the topics of the week and we’re adding to that. We found an interesting story about a Smart Service Kiosk being used by a car dealer, in this …

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Educational Research: VR and Empathy

by Len Scrogan

Quick Search: Research is a series dedicated to unpacking some of the emerging research on 3D, VR, and other dynamic visualization technologies. See my introductory discussion on this topic, entitled the Research Chase. In …

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