Archive for May, 2008

Advertisers to Pay for Digital Signage Infrastructure Swap-out, Says US Capital’s Mass Transit System

Monday, May 5th, 2008

by Chris Connery, Vice President, PC and Large Format Commercial Displays As digital signage efforts continue to grow both locally and worldwide, more and more major out-of-home initiatives are being implemented. In what may be one of the most aggressive examples of expectations set by the digital signage industry, the Washington ...

Wistron Buys In

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

by David Barnes, Vice President, Strategic Analysis Several news stories and our own survey of Q1’08 panel shipment results suggest a new trend in the LCD TV supply chain. Wistron (TPE 3231, sales of $8,842 million in 2007) intends to acquire inventory, equipment, intellectual property and personnel associated with PC monitor assembly from ...

Emerging Mini-Note PC Market to be Impacted More Severely Than the Traditional Notebook PC Market by Recent Fires at Two Top 5 Battery Manufacturers

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

By DisplaySearch Desktop Monitor and Notebook PCs Teams On September 30, 2007, the third floor of Matsushita’s Moriguchi Plant, where the “Charge/Discharge” process takes place (the final process before packaging) was shut down due to major fire damage. The fire department did not allow access to the floor for one month ...