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Russia Considers Blanket Device Ban

Russia will ban a host of connected products from being sold in the country from 1st January, according to local news ...

Panel Price Hike for Small Vendors

IHS has released its PriceWise data, which contains an analysis of LCD panel prices in March and April. Notebooks PC brands ...

MPEG LA Introduces License for DisplayPort

MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the DisplayPort Patent Portfolio License. The DisplayPort License provides coverage for a variety ...

MSI Rises in June

MSI’s June revenues totalled NT$8.7 billion ($270.7 million), rising 22.6% MoM and 25.6% YoY. The firm has made NT$46.1 billion ($1.4 ...

Huawei Adds Good Looking Smartphones

Huawei had an impressive booth and was focusing on its mobile phone and tablet as well as its back end and ...

Taiwanese Smartphone Makers Down in Q3

Digitimes Research said that smartphone shipments by Taiwan-based vendors declined 35% from Q3 2015 to 12.36 million, with lower than expected ...

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Samsung Denies OLED Rumours, Considers G10

by Tom Allen

There have been rumours in recent months that Samsung was preparing to re-enter the OLED TV market (IHS: Samsung Looking at a Change in its OLED TV Plans?). However, Samsung Display executive Lee Chang-hoon, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| OLED TVs| Production| Samsung| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 18

SES Result 30/04/2015

by Helen Vince

SES SA recorded a net profit in the first three months of the year of €163.2 million on turnover of €477.8 million, which compares with a net profit a year earlier of €155.5 million …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| SES| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Home Retail Group Result 06/05/2015

by Helen Vince

Home Retail Group, owner of UK retailer Argos, reported a 1% increase in like for like sales last year to £5.7 billion ($8.7 billion), while Argos’ sales were 0.6% higher, accounting for £4.1 billion …

Tags:Argos| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 19

Wortmann Takes Industry Award

by Tom Allen

Wortmann AG’s Terra Pad 1061 Pro was chosen to receive an Industry Award at the recent Hannover Messe show in Germany.

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 18| Wortmann (Terra)

Replaceable Battery Extends Panasonic Life

by Tom Allen

Panasonic’s Toughbook CF-MX4 is a convertible PC, with a robust design for business users. The Toughbook has been tested in 0.75m drop tests and 100kg force vibration tests. It will last for 13 hours …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Vol 22 - Issue 18| Windows

Navy Ditches Crucible in Bulletproof ‘Glass’ Production

by Tom Allen

The press used in place of a crucible to produce Spinel.US Navy researchers have developed a bulletproof glass – or, more accurately, a ‘transparent material’ – called Spinel. It is actually a synthetic powdered …

Tags:Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Tattoos? Apple Doesn’t Want to Know

by Tom Allen

As well as the tight supply chain issues, the rumours of failing components and the online-only orders, the Apple Watch has hit another snag: it won’t work if you have a tattoo. At least, …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 18| Wearables

American Airlines Stays Grounded on iPad Glitch

by Tom Allen

‘Several dozen’ America Airlines flights were grounded at the end of April as the result of an iPad software glitch. Flight plans and pilot manuals are stored on the tablets. The airline said that …

Tags:Apple| Aviation| Back Panel| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Gartner: PC Prices Rise and Spending to Fall

by Tom Allen

PC prices will have to climb this year, to offset the effects of currency devaluation, says Gartner. In particular end-user prices in the Eurozone and Japan, where local currencies have fallen up to 20%, …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Radiant-Opto, Coretronic See Sales Drop YoY

by Helen Vince

Taiwan’s major backlight unit (BLU) manufacturers reported year on year declines in sales in April, with Radiant falling 9.6% to NT$3.2 billion ($104.3 million) and Coretronic dropping 19.6% to NT$5.5 billion ($179.6 million). For …

Tags:Coretronic| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Radiant| Vol 22 - Issue 20

HTC CFO: Outsourcing Will Rise

by Tom Allen

HTC’s CFO, Chang Chia-lin, has said that the company is likely to raise its smartphone outsourcing orders to ODM partners this year. The move will be made to cope with emerging market demand.

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Radiant Predicts High Smartphone BLU Shipments

by Tom Allen

Radiant Opto-Electronics expects backlight units (BLUs) for smartphone applications to represent between 20% and 25% of its consolidated revenues in the second half of the year. The company said that it would invest NT$3 …

Tags:LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Radiant| Smartphones| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 18