Infocomm 2018: LG Electronics Unveils Versatile New Transparent Color LED Film Display.

Launching at InfoComm, Innovative Display Brings Next-Level Viewing Experience to the Digital Signage Space.

LG Electronics USA Business Solutions is unveiling a new LED display with unparalleled installation capabilities – the LG Transparent Color LED film display. Making its introduction for the first time in the United States this week at InfoComm 2018, the revolutionary display has the ability to turn any window or glass surface into a customizable digital canvas.

Building on the success of LG's highly-acclaimed gray-scale Transparent LED film display introduced at InfoComm 2017, the new Transparent Color LED film (LAT240DT1) display offers eye-catching digital content and information in color while interacting seamlessly with its surrounding environment. The versatile color LED film offers more than 1,000 nits of brightness, with each 668x480 mm panel containing 560 LED pixels that support a wide range of color while maintaining a high transparency ratio that displays compelling content in vivid colors while still showcasing what's behind the glass.

"The LG Transparent Color LED film display exemplifies how LG continues to move the digital signage industry forward by offering unparalleled impact and versatility," said Clark Brown, Vice President, Digital Signage, LG Electronics USA Business Solutions. "Next-generation display solutions like this blend seamlessly into surrounding environments for a limitless range of installation possibilities."

At just 1.5mm thin, the LG Transparent Color LED film delivers a wide range of colors on the 24 mm pixel pitch display. It is easy to install (requiring minimal construction) on any existing glass surface using its self-adhesive transparent film. While maintaining high transparency, the LED film can display pictures, animation and videos with various color combinations, making it ideal for indoor and window-facing areas with large glass surfaces such as retail storefront windows.

Other applications include mass transit rail platforms and safety barriers, where LG Transparent Color LED film can display digital content and information, and lobbies and large public areas where it can convert ordinary glass into stunning, eye-catching digital signage displays. Even tall glass elevator shafts can be transformed into stunning pillars of graphics and light. The flexible display also works on a wide range of curved glass and window surfaces with curved format support up to 1,100R concave and in parallel to the bezel, can be cut to size, truly converting any area of ordinary glass into a dazzling, state-of-the-art digital display.

Visitors to LG's booth at InfoComm 2018 in Las Vegas (June 6-8, Las Vegas Convention Center, Central Hall, Booth #2546) will be able to experience LG's full lineup of digital displays in addition to the new LG Transparent Color LED Film display. For more information, please visit www.lgsolutions.com.

About LG Electronics USA Business Solutions.

The LG Electronics USA Business Solutions division serves commercial display customers in the U.S. lodging and hospitality, digital signage, systems integration, healthcare, education, government and industrial markets. Based in Lincolnshire, Ill., with its dedicated engineering and customer support team, LG Electronics USA Business Solutions delivers business-to-business technology solutions tailored to the particular needs of business environments. LG Electronics USA Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., a $55 billion global force in consumer electronics, mobile communications, home appliances and air solutions. LG is a 2018 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. For more information, please visit www.LGSolutions.com. 

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Microsoft to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion. Press Release.

From left: Chris Wanstrath, Github CEO and co-founder; Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO; and Nat Friedman, Microsoft corporate vice president, Developer Services.

Press Release.

Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion

Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance Microsoft services with new audiences.

REDMOND, Wash. — June 4, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use of GitHub, and bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.

“Microsoft is a developer-first company, and by joining forces with GitHub we strengthen our commitment to developer freedom, openness and innovation,” said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. “We recognize the community responsibility we take on with this agreement and will do our best work to empower every developer to build, innovate and solve the world’s most pressing challenges.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Subject to customary closing conditions and completion of regulatory review, the acquisition is expected to close by the end of the calendar year.

GitHub will retain its developer-first ethos and will operate independently to provide an open platform for all developers in all industries. Developers will continue to be able to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects — and will still be able to deploy their code to any operating system, any cloud and any device.

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Nat Friedman, founder of Xamarin and an open source veteran, will assume the role of GitHub CEO. GitHub’s current CEO, Chris Wanstrath, will become a Microsoft technical fellow, reporting to Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie, to work on strategic software initiatives.

“I’m extremely proud of what GitHub and our community have accomplished over the past decade, and I can’t wait to see what lies ahead. The future of software development is bright, and I’m thrilled to be joining forces with Microsoft to help make it a reality,” Wanstrath said. “Their focus on developers lines up perfectly with our own, and their scale, tools and global cloud will play a huge role in making GitHub even more valuable for developers everywhere.”

Today, every company is becoming a software company and developers are at the center of digital transformation; they drive business processes and functions across organizations from customer service and HR to marketing and IT. And the choices these developers make will increasingly determine value creation and growth across every industry. GitHub is home for modern developers and the world’s most popular destination for open source projects and software innovation. The platform hosts a growing network of developers in nearly every country representing more than 1.5 million companies across healthcare, manufacturing, technology, financial services, retail and more.

Upon closing, Microsoft expects GitHub’s financials to be reported as part of the Intelligent Cloud segment. Microsoft expects the acquisition will be accretive to operating income in fiscal year 2020 on a non-GAAP basis, and to have minimal dilution of less than 1 percent to earnings per share in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 on a non-GAAP basis, based on the expected close time frame. Non-GAAP excludes expected impact of purchase accounting adjustments, as well as integration and transaction-related expenses. An incremental share buyback, beyond Microsoft’s recent historical quarterly pace, is expected to offset stock consideration paid within six months after closing. Microsoft will use a portion of the remaining ~$30 billion of its current share repurchase authorization for the purchase.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is acting as legal advisor to Microsoft. Morgan Stanley is acting as exclusive financial advisor to GitHub, while Fenwick & West LLP is acting as its legal advisor.

Media & Analyst Conference Call

Nadella, Friedman, Wanstrath and Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood will host a joint conference call for media today, June 4, 2018, at 7 a.m. Pacific/10 a.m. Eastern to discuss this transaction. The call will be available to international callers at +1 (201) 689-8023 (no password required), to U.S. callers at (877) 407-0666 (no password required), or via webcast at https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/eudfciq3 at that time. More information is available on http://news.microsoft.com.

Additional details will be available when the acquisition closes.

About GitHub

GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together — as individuals and in teams — to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

From Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers.

Today, we announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. I want to share what this acquisition will mean for our industry and for developers.

The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world, with every part of our daily life and work and every aspect of our society and economy being transformed by digital technology.

Developers are the builders of this new era, writing the world’s code. And GitHub is their home.

As every industry – from precision medicine to precision agriculture, from personalized education to personalized banking – is being impacted by technology, the developer community will only grow in numbers and importance. Developer workflows will drive and influence business processes and functions across the organization – from marketing, sales and service, to IT and HR. And value creation and growth across every industry will increasingly be determined by the choices developers make.

In short, developers will be at the center of solving the world’s most pressing challenges. However, the real power comes when every developer can create together, collaborate, share code and build on each other’s work. In all walks of life, we see the power of communities, and this is true for software development and developers.

That is why we are so excited about today’s announcement. More than 28 million developers already collaborate on GitHub, and it is home to more than 85 million code repositories used by people in nearly every country. From the largest corporations to the smallest startups, GitHub is the destination for developers to learn, share and work together to create software. It’s a destination for Microsoft too. We are the most active organization on GitHub, with more than 2 million “commits,” or updates, made to projects.

Microsoft has been a developer-focused company from the very first product we created to the platforms and tools we offer today. Building technology so that others can build technology is core to our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Chris Wanstrath (left), Github CEO and co-founder; Nat Friedman, Microsoft corporate vice president, Developer Services; Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO; and Amy Hood, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer.

Microsoft is also committed to empowering communities, from the world’s professionals to IT professionals to gamers. We believe in the power of communities to achieve much more than what their members can do on their own. It’s our ability to work together that helps our dreams become reality, and we are dedicated to cultivating and growing communities to do just that.

And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.

Given all of this, together with GitHub, we see three clear opportunities ahead.

First, we will empower developers at every stage of the development lifecycle – from ideation to collaboration to deployment to the cloud. Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer can plug into and extend. Developers will continue to be able to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects – and will still be able to deploy their code on any cloud and any device.

Second, we will accelerate enterprise developers’ use of GitHub, with our direct sales and partner channels and access to Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure and services.

Finally, we will bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.

Most importantly, we recognize the responsibility we take on with this agreement. We are committed to being stewards of the GitHub community, which will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently and remain an open platform. We will always listen to developer feedback and invest in both fundamentals and new capabilities.

Once the acquisition closes later this year, GitHub will be led by CEO Nat Friedman, an open source veteran and founder of Xamarin, who will continue to report to Microsoft Cloud + AI Group Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie; GitHub CEO and Co-Founder Chris Wanstrath will be a technical fellow at Microsoft, also reporting to Scott. You can see how Chris, Nat and I envision the opportunity ahead in this public presentation.

Together we will continue to advance GitHub as a platform loved by developers and trusted by organizations.

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LG buying big Robostar firm stake.

Everything in the world will be made using  AI technology and it is coming fast to all kind of articles, including robots.

LG knows everything about that trend and is buying a stake in Robostar for $49.67 million. (about a 20%, equivalent to 1.95 million shares) . Robotics is a South Korean robot manufacturing firm.

LG wants to have a big presence and strength in the next generation industry. The deal will take place in mid-July.

LG is planning to buy more stake by the end of this year to increase its share to a 33.4%

Established in 1999, Robostar is known for its prominent technologies in making robots, including in the production of semiconductors and cars, according to industry watchers.

The stake purchase plan is the latest in a series of moves by LG to expand its business scope in the high-tech sector, which is one of the company's major future growth engines.

In January, LG showcased three different robots at Consumer Electronics Show 2018, namely serving, porter and shopping cart robots. In March, the tech firm invested 1 billion won in a local startup, Acryl, which specializes in the development of artificial intelligence technologies, and acquired a 10 percent stake.

"As the robot business is one of our key growth pillars for the future, we have been into developing our own technologies and at the same time strengthening cooperation with firms with expertise and startups," an LG official said, stressing plans to consistently invest in the development of cutting-edge technologies.

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Robostar intelligent dual arm robot. Video.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 coming with upgraded camera and processor in August 9 at N.Y event.

Samsung is planning to unveil the Galaxy Note 9 in August 9 at a N.Y event. The mobile will arrive with an upgraded camera from the Galaxy S9 +. 

Yesterday we posted here about the Galaxy S10 arriving at CES 2019 with 3 rear cameras. Maybe Samsung will not wait that long to catch up Huawei who launched the P20 Pro with 3 cameras and will include  it in the Galaxy Note 9 first.

The company is also planning to release the Galaxy Note 9 in late August and it will also come with an upgraded Qualcomm processor for some markets.

The Galaxy Note 9 was tested by GeekBench with an EXYNOS 9810 processor in. It also was reported coming with a 150º fish eye front camera , 6.4 inch display, Android 8.1, 6GB RAM.

Bloomberg

Before related posts:

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 stops by Geekbench again. Now with Exynos 9810 cpu.

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 shows up on GeekBench.

Is the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 coming with a 150º fish eye front camera lens.?

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will sport a 6.4 inch screen.

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 in-display fingerprint reader will work. Patent published.

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 SM-N960U with Android 8.1, stops by Geekbench.

iPhone X Plus and Samsung Galaxy S10 coming with 3 rear cameras.

South Korean Analyst Kim Don-won  from KB securities said in May 31st that the Samsung Galaxy S10 (CES 2019) is coming with a  3 rear-facing  cameras and 3D sensor.

The triple cameras, which allow consumers to take clearer and crisper pictures at different angles than single and dual peers and to use enhanced zoom features, can also be utilized for augmented reality solutions.

Apple next premium smartphone iPhone X Plus is also reported to arrive with 3 camera lenses at the rear.

"The supply volume of smartphone parts, including camera modules and sensors, will likely increase despite the slowdown in the global smartphone market,” said Kim Ji-san, an analyst from Kium Securities, adding Samsung Electro-Mechanics would be one of the beneficiaries of the market trend.

The Analysts believe that are Samsung and Apple responses to Huawei who launched the P20 Pro smartphone with 3 rear cameras in early May. The mobile has 40 mpxls primary lenses acompanied by a 8 mpxls camera sensor and a 20 mpxls monochrome sensor.

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Huawei P20 Pro 128GB Single-SIM Factory Unlocked 4G/LTE Smartphone (Black) - International Version

CES 2019: Samsung Galaxy S10 coming with ultrasonic sensor for in-display fingerprint recognition made by Qualcomm.

Chinese smartphones manufacturers are making the in display fingerprint sensor with a optical way technology and it is not more accurate than the ultrasonic in display fingerprint  sensor technology that Qualcomm is offering to Samsung.

How this ultrasonic sensor technology works?

It works by transmitting an ultrasonic pulse against the finger to map the pores and ridges that are unique to each fingerprint. This lets the sensor collect additional depth data for accurate 3D reproduction of the fingerprint to ensure higher accuracy.

The display panel will be supplied by Samsung Display  and Qualcomm is said to be supplying the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor.

This is the first time we are hearing about Qualcomm making it. On before news Samsung was supposed  making it and that will use it not only on smartphones but on smart home devices, home appliances and automobiles, as well.

However recent news confirmed Samsung is adopting the Qualcomm`s technology.

"Samsung Electronics has decided to commercialize the display fingerprint reader on the Galaxy S10," Samsung Electronics said in a statement. "We know Samsung Display is in charge of the display and Qualcomm is in the spotlight." Display Fingerprint recognition is the key to making fingerprints visible on the display without exposing the sensor to the outside. Samsung OLED reportedly an implementation of the display fingerprint in such a manner as to position the ultrasonic sensor on the back (OLED) panel. Qualcomm will be responsible for the supply of ultrasonic sensors and Samsung Display will be responsible for manufacturing the S10 panel and attaching the sensor to the panel. The ultrasound method is a technology for discriminating fingerprint shapes and features by changing the intensity and position of ultrasonic waves. Due to the nature of the ultrasonic transmission through objects, the sensor can be operated from the back of the panel. Samsung Electronics uses ultrasonic technology because the sensor is not exposed to the outside and has less influence on the panel structure and image quality. 

Besides that , Samsung is working in more exciting new features for the 10th anniversary smartphone Galaxy S10 which will be unveiled at CES 2019 just before the MWC 2019 where the company is going to unveil its foldable smartphone.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 stops by Geekbench again. Now with Exynos 9810 cpu.

In May 12, 2018 we posted  about the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 test at Geekbench with a Qualcomm cpu 845 and a performance for a single core score of 2411 and Multi core score of 8712 similar to the Note 8.

Now the mobile shows up again with a Samsung Exynos 9810 cpu, with a performance of 2737 for a single core and 9064 for a multicore.

A much better performance than the Qualcomm 845.

The Galaxy Note 9 tested is the Samsung SM-N960N , with 6GB RAM, Android 8.1.0, 1 processor 8 cores at 1.79 GHz

The Note 9 might arrive with a 6.4 inch Infinity Display, dual cameras, larger battery capacity, Bixby 2.0 and maybe  an in display fingerprint scanner (not confirmed).

Rumors are saying the mobile will be unveiled late in July for deliveries in early August 2018.

Before related post:

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 shows up on GeekBench.

Next iPhone A12 chip with 7nm design production has started.

Apple next trio of smartphones might arrive this fall with new 7nm chips so called A12. Maybe not the 3 of them but at least  2 of the new models of the iPhone X with OLED display.

Actual iPhone 8/8+ and iPhone X have a 10 nm chip.

The 7nm chips are more capable,  help smartphones run apps faster and last longer before having to be recharged, key advantages in a competitive industry .

The new chips are made by TSMC for Apple and its production has already started.

Samsung is also thinking to include its new 7nm chips for its new smartphones.

Bloomberg

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Samsung to start 7nm chip production this year.

Samsung to start 7nm chip production this year.

Samsung will start the production of the new 7 nanometer (nm) chip with a new technology. Before chips were made with 14, 12 and 10 nm the most recent.

The chips industry for around 50 years is trying to find  the best way to improve performance shrinking the width of chip circuits.

Extreme ultraviolet lithography is a new technique that could sustain progress, but chipmakers have been been trying to perfect it for about a decade.

ASML Holding NV is the main supplier of EUV lithography machines, and Samsung is confident it has improved the output of this equipment enough for mass production. The Korean giant managed to make more than 1,000 disks of silicon using EUV each day, the company said at an event in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday. The ability to use EUV, which eliminates production steps, separates Samsung from from its rivals, said Hong Hao, a company senior vice president.

The world’s largest chipmaker said it will begin using the new technique this year, in time for mass production for customers next year.

Bloomberg 

RED HYDROGEN ONE world`s first holographic smartphone announced.

The RED Hydrogen One android holographic world`s first smartphone has been announced today in a event in Los Angeles.

You can actually have an holo chat with your friend and see you and he/she on an hologram when you chat.

If you want to know how to go to certain point in your car you will get an holo map.

The smartphone has 5.7 inch display, USB-C plug, stereo speakers, and a headphone jack,Qualcom m Snapdragon 835, 4000 mAh battery.

It has a new screen technology the company is calling “4-view.” It will allow users to switch the 2560 x 1440 screen from a standard 2D to 3D to a “holographic” view.

Technology.

There is a special layer underneath the LCD display which, when enabled, is able to direct light in multiple directions instead of the standard two that happen with lenticular displays. RED is also doing more than just combining two images to make standard 3D —it’s trying to use an algorithm to blend multiple angles from those two lenses to create the effect.

AUDIO.

The company has created a virtual surround sound effect through its algorithms , called A3D sound. Fans at the event described it as being just as good as Dolby 5.1 surround. 

It comes in either aluminum (pre-order price: $1,195) or titanium (pre-order price: $1,595) and Verizon and AT&T will support it. The Red Hydrogen will be available in August.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 tablet shows up on GeekBench.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 SM-T835 showed up today on GeekBench with a 1898 score for a Single core and 6331 for Multi-Core performance.

The tablet will arive with Android 8.1.0, RAM 4GB, One Qualcomm Processor SnapDragon 835 at 1.9GHz with 8 cores. No news about the display size yet and if it will come with an S-Pen as well.

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