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The smartphone market continued to boom in Russia in the second quarter of 2018, with import volumes more than 10% higher than in the same period in 2017, reaching over seven million units — a record for the second quarter of the year, according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker published by International Data … Read more
The smartphone market continued to boom in Russia in the second quarter of 2018, with import volumes more than 10% higher than in the same period in 2017, reaching over seven million units — a record for the second quarter of the year, according to IDC. Handset ASP slipped marginally over the first quarter of … Read more
IT spending in South Africa will total 276.6 billion rand in 2018, a 4.3% increase from 2017, according to Gartner. All IT segments are on track to achieve growth this year, with data centre systems and servers returning to growth. Gartner’s John-David Lovelock commented: “South Africa is playing technology catch-up. After years of neglecting basic … Read more
A Samsung patent has emerged detailing a “self-healing” display for use in a foldable smartphone — no coincidence, considering such a device has been in development over at Samsung for several years. The application says that the anti-fingerprint film is made of a polyrotaxane, polyhedral silsesquioxane and fluorinated (meth) acryl compound, which can apparently be … Read more
Samsung, in collaboration with photography agency Magnum Photos, has released 28 specially-curated photographs available exclusively in the Art Store of The Frame for 2018, an updated version of The Frame, first introduced last year. Four photographers were challenged to take a unique, eye-catching photograph every day for a week. With a newly-announced 49” model, consumers … Read more
The Gwangju National Science Museum and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. chose Front Pictures to deliver a projection system for South Korea’s first spherical projection theatre, Space 360. The sphere, which is 12 metres in diameter, is located next to Lucerium National Science Museum in Gwangju, South Korea. Construction started in September 2016 and … Read more
Digitimes Research says that shipments of mobile handsets by Taiwan-based manufacturers reached 20.66 million during the second quarter of 2018, growing 16.1% compared to the first quarter. Among the ODMs, Foxconn came out on top, thanks to shipments of Nokia-branded handsets. Asustek, HTC, Arima Communications and Compal rounded out the top five. Analysts predict that … Read more
In February 2019, Sharp will begin moving equipment into its new 10.5G LCD fab in Guangzhou, China, according to Digitimes. The publication cites a report from Korea’s ET News. Digitimes’ report goes on to say that the facility will produce 45,000 substrates per month, in sizes between 40″ and 69″. First-phase production will apparently commence … Read more
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi recorded Q2 net profits of 14.63 billion yuan ($2.14 billion), compared with a loss of 11.97 billion yuan ($1.75 billion) a year ago, on revenue which jumped 68% to 45.24 billion yuan ($6.62 billion) from 26.88 billion yuan ($3.93 billion). For the first half there were profits of 7.605 billion yuan … Read more
Over the last couple of weeks, since the announcement of the Turing GPU at Siggraph and Gamescon, we have talked to a number of people that really didn’t know what we meant by ray tracing. If you’re in that group, we found an interesting blog by pioneer, Turner Whitted, published by Nvidia. We also spotted … Read more
What does a company do when they are behind on a technology they have been working on for a decade? Hire a world-renown expert professor of course! Samsung has recently hired away professor Changhee Lee from Seoul National University to become a VP of Research according to an article on the Korean online news outlet … Read more
Optoma has just launched a new range of bright ultra short throw projectors designed for businesses, schools and colleges. The new range includes Full HD 1080p, WXGA and XGA resolutions and are smaller, lighter and run quieter than comparable projectors. At 3600 lumens they are ideal for teaching or meeting rooms with ambient light but … Read more
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