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Large Panel Shipments Rose 4.3% YoY in September

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A total of 22.7 million large panels were shipped in September, from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement …

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Sony’s Professional OLED Supports Rec.2020

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Sony’s professional OLED monitor that we saw at IBC last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 38) – the BVM-X300 – has been confirmed for a February 2015 availability date. As well as high …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Mid-Size Macbook Held Back by Low Yields

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A 12″ Macbook Air is being produced, in low quantities, by Quanta Computer, say Asian sources. Output is scheduled to increase beginning next month. The product is said to have a touchscreen and has …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Adversign Claims 21.5″ is ‘Tablet’

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Germany’s Adversign has developed a ‘tablet’ for small signage applications. We use quote marks because the product is a bit bigger than your normal handheld… Adversign argues that consumers are used to seeing and …

Tags:Digital Signage| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

TI Power Chip for Wearables is Wireless

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Texas Instruments (TI) has announced a number of devices addressing the power requirements of mobile and wearable devices. As nice as some of these new gadgets are, they still need power to run. The …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Power Supplies| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

HP Minimises Storage to Lower Cost

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The HP Stream 7 and Stream 8 are new 7″ and 8″ tablet PCs with full cloud connectivity. While local storage is minimal (32GB, expandable with micro-SD), each has access to 1TB of Microsoft …

Tags:Cloud Computing| HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Ouigo Innovates with Slabs of Glass

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Ouigo is a Taiwanese company that has an unusual technology. The company has developed a glass-based tiled projection screen. It can be used in any arbitrary tiled configuration and allows a projector to be …

Tags:Gitex 2014| Large Display Monitor| Video Walls| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Kiosk London Exhibitors Praise Quality Over Quantity

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Every year, HF Media & Events organises two shows in one: Kiosk London and Digital Signage London, which take place in London’s Barbican Centre. It is a small event, and two hours were more …

Tags:Digital Signage| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Evonik and Holst Centre Commercialise Soluble TFTs

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Evonik and the Holst Centre have been working on a new semiconductor technology called iXsenic S for the last two years. The soluble Oxide-TFT material is now being used in mass production by ‘a …

Tags:Holst Centre| Large Display Monitor| Metal Oxide| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Samsung to Market 60GHz Wireless in 2015

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Samsung has said that it will commercalise 60GHz wireless products next year. Data transmission speeds are as much as five times faster than today’s Wi-Fi (4.6Gbps). A 1GB film can be transferred in ‘less …

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Blackberry Returns to Classic Form Factor

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A leaked image, apparently of the Blackberry Classic smartphone, shows a return to the company’s traditional physical keyboard form factor. Image source N4BB claims that the phone will have a 3.5″ LCD screen; 720 …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Samsung Partners With RFU

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The UK’s Rugby and Football Union (RFU) has entered into a three-year partnership with Samsung. Through the agreement, Samsung will install more than 700 Smart Signage digital displays at Twickenham Stadium, with more at …

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