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2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress Surpasses Record 100,000 Visitors
by audioXpress Staff

2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress Surpasses Record 100,000 Visitors

Visitors to the 2016 edition of the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time in the event’s history, with nearly 101,000 attendees, an increase of more than six per cent over last year, the GSMA reports. MWC2016 featured more than 2,200 exhibitors, and the conference program featured 12 keynote sessions and 48 in-depth track sessions over four days.
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Top Four Emerging Trends Impacting the Global Home Theater Market 2016-2020
by audioXpress Staff

Top Four Emerging Trends Impacting the Global Home Theater Market 2016-2020

The global home theater market is expected to grow steadily, exceeding USD 28 billion by 2020. The top four emerging trends influencing the global home theater market, according to Technavio’s media and entertainment research analysts are the growing number of smart homes, vendors collaborating on product bundling, the growing adoption of cloud services and expansion to emerging markets.
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Harman Connected Car Ecosystem Expands with New Service Delivery Platform
by Nora Wong

Harman Connected Car Ecosystem Expands with New Service Delivery Platform

At the Mobile World Congress 2016, Harman International promoted their new connected car ecosystem with a new service provider program which allows automakers to provide a wide range of new vehicle-centric services over Harman’s new Service Delivery Platform. Harman also announced the launch of its new Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 3 portable Bluetooth speaker.
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MSC Software Announces Acoustic Seminar Series to Help Engineers Better Understand Product Behavior
by audioXpress Staff

MSC Software Announces Acoustic Seminar Series to Help Engineers Better Understand Product Behavior

MSC Software is promoting new free educational seminars throughout the US to help engineers from a variety of industries better understand their product’s acoustic behavior. The new Acoustic Seminar Series includes an introduction to acoustic theory, an overview of acoustic scenarios from various industries, Q&A sessions and an acoustic simulation best practices overview.
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Knowles to Focus on MEMS Microphones and Divert from Microspeaker Business - Updated
by audioXpress Staff

Knowles to Focus on MEMS Microphones and Divert from Microspeaker Business - Updated

Knowles Corporation showcased new advanced audio systems for mobile, wearable, hearable, and Internet of Things devices (IoT) at the Mobile World Congress 2016, in Barcelona. The company confirmed that it has shipped more than 8 billion MEMS microphones globally and reaffirmed the decision to sell its speaker and receiver product line segment of the company.
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DTS Headphone:X And DTS Play-Fi Technologies Integrated In New Tablets and Smartphones
by audioXpress Staff

DTS Headphone:X And DTS Play-Fi Technologies Integrated In New Tablets and Smartphones

The Mobile World Congress 2016, in Barcelona, is the place chosen to unveil “exciting” developments in mobile devices, while the world waits for Apple to unveil the latest iPhone. But at least it allows companies like DTS to actually have smartphones and tablets featuring advanced audio technologies such as Headphone:X immersive processing and Play-Fi wireless home audio.
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Messe Frankfurt Announces Prolight+Sound Middle East 2016
by audioXpress Staff

Messe Frankfurt Announces Prolight+Sound Middle East 2016

Messe Frankfurt, one of the world’s leading trade fair and conventions organizers, has announced the launch of Prolight+Sound Middle East. According to Installation International magazine, Messe Frankfurt has acquired the PALME Middle East show, which used to be held in May, from Informa Exhibitions and rebranded it as Prolight+Sound Middle East.
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ISE 2016 Confirms Record Attendance and is Now the World’s Largest AV and Systems Integration Show
by audioXpress Staff

ISE 2016 Confirms Record Attendance and is Now the World’s Largest AV and Systems Integration Show

The organizers promised ‘More 4 You’ and produced the most for everyone. The first four-day Integrated Systems Europe exhibition came to a close on 12 February with a final count of 65,686 registered attendees. This represents a 6,338 (10.7%) increase on the 2015 edition and officially positions ISE as the world’s largest AV and systems integration tradeshow.
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Alliance for IP Media Solutions Expands Efforts for IP Media Convergence
by Joao Martins

Alliance for IP Media Solutions Expands Efforts for IP Media Convergence

It’s not only on the audio industry that there is a focus on the transition towards IP networking. The video and broadcast industries are also focused on this media networking convergence and the new Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) is now fast expanding and augmenting its efforts to support the transition to IP via open standards and interoperability.
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Media Networking Alliance Creates AES67 Momentum at ISE 2016
by Joao Martins

Media Networking Alliance Creates AES67 Momentum at ISE 2016

You can call it the “rtf” format or the neutral “Switzerland” of audio networking. The AES67 open format is here and the demonstrations at ISE 2016 reflected the growing importance of network interoperability in AV. Several initiatives promoted by the Media Networking Alliance (MNA) at this show served to demonstrate how important this will be for audio in general.
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