Vol 25 – Issue 04 – Page 7

Carbon Dioxide Levels, Displays, and the Earth

by Kenneth Li

I read several articles in Display Daily recently with relationship to Global Warming, which almost all of us believe to be related to the CO2 levels. Without getting into the political and technological side …

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Praxair Announces Gas Supply Deals with EverDisplay

by Andrew Fenn

Praxair has announced a long-term gas supply agreement with EverDisplay. Praxair will supply EverDisplay with nitrogen, oxygen and helium for its new G6 AMOLED fab. The new facility will require 720 tonnes of nitrogen …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials Market| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Vol 25 - Issue 04

SensorTower: US SVoD App Revenue Grew 77% in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

US consumer spending in the top 10 SVoD mobile apps grew 77% in 2017 to approximately $781 million on the App Store and Google Play, according to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence estimates. Furthermore, the …

Samsung Announces Big Game Sale on UHD HDR TVs

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has launched its Big Game Deals sale, heavily discounting a selection of the company’s 2017 Ultra HD HDR TVs, just in time for the Super Bowl. Models in the sale include the company’s …

FETC 2018 Roundup

by Len Scrogan

The US ed tech conference season kicks off at the start of the year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (this year, FETC 2018), held each year in Orlando, Florida. …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Snapdragon 645 Boosts Foveated Rendering

by Bob Raikes

One of the features that is included in the latest Snapdragon 645, from Qualcomm, is Andreno foveation, a set of circuits for optimising gaze recognition and eye tracking. According to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch, the …

Tags:AR/VR| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Leap Motion Shows Three New Interactive VR Prototypes

by Andrew Fenn

VR company Leap Motion has released a detailed blog post, demonstrating three new ways of interacting with objects in a virtual reality environment, using information from the worn head-mounted display and an approximation of …

GfK Forecasts Positive Development for Consumer Electronics in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

According to the latest estimates from GfK, the global consumer electronics market will once again surpass a market volume of $1,000 billion this year, with an increase of just under 4%. The three largest …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Eutelsat CEO Joins Netflix Board of Directors

by Andrew Fenn

Netflix has added Rodolphe Belmer to its board, bringing the total number of directors to ten and expanding the breadth of its global and entertainment experience. Since March 2016, Belmer has served as CEO …

Virgin Upgrading Customers to UHD-Ready STB for Free

by Andrew Fenn

Virgin Media is offering existing Virgin TV customers a free upgrade to its V6 box, which is based on Tivo software. In what is one of the largest customer upgrade programmes ever carried out …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| Virgin Media| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Qualcomm fined €997 for Apple Exclusivity Deal

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has been fined €997 million ($1.2 billion) by the EU for a deal that the company made in 2011 that rewarded Apple for an exclusive agreement with the firm for LTE baseband modems.As …

Tags:Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

NEC InfinityBoard Now Available in EMEA

by Bob Raikes

NEC previewed its InfinityBoard at ISE last year and told us at its Showcase last spring that it would be ‘shipping soon’. Now the company has said that the displays (in 65″ and 84″) …

Tags:Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 25 - Issue 04