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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 38

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba has updated its Chromebook 2 to make available new 5th Gen (Broadwell) Core i3 or Celeron processors as well as adding an LED-backlit keyboard. The display is still a 13.3″ IPS unit (Toshiba …

Tags:Chromebooks| Large Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 38

MDM Product Round Up Vol 22 #38

by Bob Raikes

Dell has added USB Type-C connectors and Windows 10 to its Venue 8 Pro and Venue 10 Pro as well as changing the CPU to a Intel Atom Z8500 Quad Core processor. Wi-fi is …

Tags:Chromebooks| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Skype Drops Out for 15 Hours

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s Skype had a 15 hour interruption to services on Monday, that it blamed on a “larger-than-usual configuration change”.

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| VideoConferencing| Vol 22 - Issue 38

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Replacement Indecision Will Cause Device Sales to Drop

by Bob Raikes

Click for higher resolution44% of current tablet users are looking to use a different device according to Gartner. “Replacement activity across all types of devices has decreased,” said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphone Market| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 38

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TSMC Forecasts Weak 4Q15

by Bob Raikes

TSMC said that sales revenues are up in Q3 for exchange reasons, but expects a sequential drop in Q4 as weak smartphone demand impacts processor shipments.

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| TSMC| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Notebook Panels Down, but Quality Up

by Bob Raikes

Witsview of Taiwan has estimated that 14.43 million notebook display panels were shipped in August, up 21% from July. However, Q3 sales will be just 41.74 million units, down 4% from 43.43 million last …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 38| Wide Viewing Angles

China LED Consolidates

by Bob Raikes

Reports from LEDinside (http://tinyurl.com/pzpxpqz) say that the Chinese LED packaging market is about to consolidate as growth is lower than been hoped and because companies have “huge war chests”.

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Xiaomi Aims 4c at China

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has launched a new mid-level smartphone, the 4c, for the Chinese market. It has a 5.0″ FullHD IPS LCD (441 ppi) with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor. Memory is 2GB/16GB or 3GB/32GB, there’s …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 38| Xiaomi

Stingray launches a 4K UHD channel for the North American market

by Bob Raikes

Stingray of Canada, is launching an UltraHD channel “Stingray Ambience 4K” which will show landscapes around the world to Videotron subscribers. The day starts with “sunrise over a Hawaiian beaches” and scenery will change …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Amazon Planning 6 UltraHD Pilots

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has told Forbes magazine (http://tinyurl.com/nrzlvpo) that it will make six pilot TV shows in UltraHD. Three are half hour and three are an hour long, with a family comedy, a post US Civil …

Tags:4k| Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Production| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Soccer is the First VR Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

As a test of VR, NOS of Portugal showed in VR a soccer match between FC Porto and Benfica, at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto. Customers who saw the broadcast were in the …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Portugal| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Tour China from Times Square

by Bob Raikes

The “Experience Day of Beautiful China” global tour event, hosted by the China Intercontinental Communication Center (CICC), officially opened at the Thomson Reuters building in New York’s Times Square last week. The experience used …

Tags:3D| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 38