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Lenovo Confident of Making Motorola Profitable

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In October, Lenovo completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google and has now said that it believes it can return the business to profitability within 18 months. No official announcement has been made …

Tags:Lenovo| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Lufthansa Takes Off With Surface Pro 3

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German airline Lufthansa will begin equipping its pilots with the Surface Pro 3 tablet from next year, replacing the existing cockpit laptops. More than 5,000 tablets have been ordered, as well as special docking …

Tags:Aviation| Back Panel| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Qualcomm to Cut 600 Jobs

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Qualcomm is planning to cut 600 jobs worldwide as the company tries to refocus its business in new areas. The news comes at a difficult time for Qualcomm, which has been the subject of …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Prestigio Bolsters Storage With Cloud

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The Multiphone 5507 Duo is a 5″ dual-SIM smartphone, with cloud storage. As well as 8GB of internal storage, owners can access 200GB of Prestigio’s Multicloud storage for one year. Featuring a 3G connection …

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Overlapping Functionality Lowers Wearable Shipments

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Shipments of wearable electronic devices for fitness will dip slightly next year, as the functionality of smartwatches, smart wristbands and other wearable fitness monitors overlaps. Gartner expects shipments to reach 68.1 million units, down …

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Oculus Rift: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?

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Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Opinion

Nintendo Chooses Access

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The Netfront Browser NX product from Access has been chosen as the browser for Nintendo’s New Nintendo 3DS and 3DS LL handheld consoles.

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New Metric for Absolute Color Accuracy

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A new display color accuracy metric was developed by DisplayMate and used by the lab, to help identify the mobile display panel with the best absolute color accuracy. The lab made famous by its …

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N1 is Nokia’s Android Surprise

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The Nokia brand is known for Windows and Windows Phone products – especially since the acquisition of the smartphone unit by Microsoft. Now the Finnish company has surprised everyone by releasing a high-end Android …

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Motorola Mobility Loses Price-fixing Appeal

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A US court has rejected an antitrust lawsuit brought by Motorola Mobility against several Asian LCD manufacturers. Many companies have pleaded guilty and been fined in the price-fixing cartel which operated between 2001 and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Motorola| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Microvision Result 14/11/14

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Microvision Inc. narrowed its third quarter net loss to $3.3 million from $3.6 million a year earlier, while turnover was little changed year on year at $968,000 compared with $964,000. The company’s net loss …

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Microvision Receives Second Component Order

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Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43), Microvision signed a $1.5 million agreement with a Fortune Global 100 customer. The customer has now followed this with an additional $1.9 million purchase order …

Tags:Back Panel| Microdisplays| Microvision| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 49