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Intel Peaks Interest With Smartwatch

by Super User

After purchasing fitness tracker firm Basis in March (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 10), Intel is preparing to deliver its first smartwatch: the Basis Peak. The name was announced at the Intel Developer Forum …

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Optoma Showcase Adds New Partners

by Super User

The Optoma Showcase, at Silverstone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 33), will also see other companies displaying their solutions. As well as Optoma and Texas Instruments, Green Hippo, Harman’s AMX and Projection Artworks will …

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Sony Enters Chinese Console Market

by Super User

Sony will follow Microsoft into the console market in mainland China, with a facility in the Pudong New Area packaging around 200,000 Playstation 4 units annually. The consoles will go on sale in December.

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LEDs Replace Projectors at Plasa 2014

by Super User

2014 marked our first attendance to the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (Plasa) show for several years – slightly marred by a terrible train service. Signal failures between Reading and Slough turned what should …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Innolux’s Monthly Sales 19% Higher YoY

by Super User

Innolux reported sales of NT$38.5 billion ($1.2 billion) in September, 0.8% higher month on month and 18.8% up on September 2013. Last month’s result brought sales for the third quarter to NT$113.1 billion ($3.7 …

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Associations Call for ITA Agreement

by Super User

IT associations from around the world have called for an early conclusion to talks on the Information Technology Agreement (ITA). It is hoped that the talks will reach an end before the leaders of …

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Ingram Micro Adds Kazam

by Super User

Ingram Micro Mobility has added Kazam smartphones to its portfolio. The company is now distributing the devices in Italy and Poland.

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Microsoft Committed to Surface

by Super User

Microsoft wasted no time recently in countering a claim by Taiwan’s Digitimes that the company was ‘likely to terminate the [Surface] product line’. A blog post by Surface general manager Brian Hall (http://tinyurl.com/kc7fxr9) showed …

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Christie Supplies Korea’s Largest Multiplex

by Super User

Korea’s new Lotte Cinema World Tower, in Seoul, is the country’s largest multiplex, with 21 screens and 4,600 seats – and multiple Christie cinema products. These include Solaria-series projectors (CP2215, CP2220, CP2230 and CP4230); …

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Sharp Has Lots to Show

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Sharp started off by showing us its new 70″ UltraHD monitor, the tentatively named PN-H701 which supports HDMI2.0 and produces 700cd/m

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Microsoft Confident of ‘Real World’ Windows Feedback

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One million people are testing Windows 10 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39), according to Microsoft. About 65% of these have installed the OS on a PC, while 35% have it on a virtual …

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Sling Media and ViXS Downconvert for Multiple Streams

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Sling Media and ViXS Systems have worked together on a new network transcoder, which uses Sling technology and a ViXS XCode 5190 chipset. The device can perform 2560 x 1440 to 1280 x 720 …

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