Volume 21 – Page 95 – Display Daily

Acer Aims to Improve EMEA Position

by Super User

Acer’s EMEA president, Luca Rossi, says that the company is determined to improve its position in the European market and to maintain healthy profitability but will not pursue “desperate market share acquisition strategy” to …

Panasonic’s 14″ Toughbook is Lightest Yet

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Panasonic says that its new Toughbook CF-LX3 is the lightest 14″ notebook available on the market today. Weighing 1.26kg, the product will run on battery for up to 14 hours. The battery will recharge …

Note 4 Owners Discover Screen Gap

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After rushing to take advantage of Apple’s bending iPhones (http://tinyurl.com/qjdvdjy), the last thing that Samsung wanted was its own manufacturing defect. Even Samsung can’t get everything its own way, however. According to Korea’s IT …

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Vivo…Until Gionee Revamped its Own Product

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China’s Gionee has gone and outdone itself, beating its previous S5.5 smartphone (holding the record for the world’s thinnest model) with the 5.1mm-thick ELife S5.1 (thinner than my mousemat! – TA). Like the S5.5, …

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Vivitek Signs Edumax in Norway

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Vivitek has signed a distribution agreement for its projectors with Edumax in Norway.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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