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Kudelski Group Transfers SmarDTV´s Device Business  To Neotion Affiliate

The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.S), the world leader in digital security, and Neotion, a leading provider of secure solutions for the pay-TV industry, have announced that they have reached an agreement whereby SmarDTV’s Conditional Access Module (CAM) and Set-Top Box businesses are transferred to SmarDTV Global, a newly set up entity affiliated with Neotion. Upfront … Read more

Kudelski Group Transfers SmarDTV´s Device Business To Neotion Affiliate

Digital security firm The Kudelski Group and Neotion, a provider of secure solutions for the pay TV industry, have announced that they have reached an agreement whereby Kudelski subsidiary SmarDTV’s conditional access module (CAM) and set-top-box businesses will be transferred to SmarDTV Global, a newly set up entity affiliated with Neotion, for $20 million. The … Read more

Hybrid Rendering Fundamentally Changes Computer Graphics by Fusing Real-Time Ray Tracing, AI, Simulation and Rasterization

NVIDIA reinvented computer graphics with the launch of the NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture. The greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006, Turing features new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing which, together for the first time, make real-time ray tracing possible. These two engines … Read more

Fujitsu Mobile Workstations are VR Ready

Fujitsu has added two new mobile workstations, the Celsius H780 and H980, which have 15.6″ and 17.3″ displays, respectively and run on Intel Xeon E-2100M processors. Both have FullHD resolution and the H780 has UltraHD and touch options, and graphics are from Nvidia Quadro P3200, P4200 or P5200 graphics cards. The displays on the H780 … Read more

AMD Looks to Value and Stability for Professional GPUs

AMD, which was somewhat overshadowed by the Nvidia RTX announcement, launched its new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX processors which have 32 cores and 64 threads and are claimed to be the most powerful desktop processors. The The processors are compatible with most I/O and existing AMD X399 chipset motherboards through a simple BIOS update. The 2nd … Read more

Samsung Extends Warranties on Hospitality Displays

Samsung has extended warranties on all hospitality display products purchased in Germany from August 2018, from 24 months to 36, according to Invidis. The new warranty is designed to provide better investment security for hotel operators. The company’s Martin Gross remarked: “Standard warranty periods are usually 24 months. To give our customers additional security when … Read more

IAdea-Signboard XDS-1078 Supports MagicInfo

Media player and monitor maker, Iadea, has a new 10″ smart signage monitor designed for meeting room and other small signage applications. The unit uses a ‘glass mount solution’ to make it look attractive and keep it as close to the wall as possible and it has a ‘brandable’ colour LED lightbar (thousands of colours … Read more

Clear Channel and RBL Win DooH Contract for City of Utrecht

The city of Utrecht in the Netherlands has awarded a contract for the installation of 1,670 analogue and 60 digital out-of-home advertising displays to RBL and Clear Channel. The contract covers 479 city-light-posters, two-hundred 2m² free-standing advertising display cases and ten 6.5m² digital portrait billboards, to be installed and maintained over a fifteen-year period. Twenty … Read more

Apple and Huawei Flex Their Strength in a Declining Tablet Market, Says IDC

According to the latest figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the overall tablet market for Western Europe declined 10.1% YoY, shipping 6.3 million units in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18). Slates exhibited a degree of resilience in the commercial space, following strength in certain niche use-case deployments. However, market saturation, lengthening life cycles … Read more

IDC: Apple and Huawei Flex Their Strength in a Declining Tablet Market

According to the latest figures published by IDC, the overall tablet market for Western Europe declined 10.1% year-on-year, with 6.3 million units shipping in the second quarter of 2018. Slates exhibited a degree of resilience in the commercial space, following strength in certain niche use-case deployments. However, market saturation, lengthening life cycles and a lack … Read more

Italy to Switch Over from MPEG-2 Format to MPEG-4 from 2020

Italy will switch from MPEG-2 coding to MPEG-4 on the DVB-T standard from January 1st, 2020 as part of its plan to free up the 700MHz frequency band for high-speed mobile internet. Following a two-year trial, the country’s Ministry of Economic Development has sanctioned the change as a means of using the band more efficiently … Read more

Foxconn Result 15/8/2018

Foxconn Electronics reported Q2 net profits of NT$17.49 billion ($566.6 million), down 2% YoY and at the lowest level for five years, on record high sales of NT$1.07 trillion ($34.7 billion), up 17%. For the first six months there were profits of NT$41.57 billion ($1.3 billion), a decrease of 10%, on revenue of NT$2.1 trillion … Read more