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JCDecaux posted FY16 Q3 adjusted group sales of €792.7 mn ($885.4 mn), up 3.8% from €764.0 mn ($849.6 mn) in FY15 Q3. The Q3 organic sale growth rate was 1.5%, in line with the company’s expectations. The growth reflected the good performance of the ‘Street Furniture’ segment and a positive growth in the billboard segment … Read more
HannStar Display announced Q3 FY16 consolidated sales of NT$6.96 bn ($220.6 mn) and a net profit of NT$2.35 bn ($74.5 mn) resulting in a very healthy net profit margin of 34%. These results marked a significant upturn in company’s financials as it had reported operating losses for preceding five quarters. Q3 FY16 sales had increased … Read more
Virgin Media (now owned by Liberty Media) is rumoured to be ready release a new ‘V6’ Tivo box with UltraHD support, as Virgin has invited the press to attend an event on the 30th November. The company released a picture of a new box earlier this year. Separately, Virgin Media said that it added an … Read more
Apple has made Fibe TV available on Apple TV in Canada. This allows access to 450 channels live or on demand. Bell in Canade, which runs the service, is also selling the Apple TV box in their stores. The company said that by the end of the year, viewers will also be able to watch … Read more
US cable provider, Charter Communications said that its network reached 49.0 million homes and served 25.9 million residential and SMB customers, up by 245,000 on the same period last year. Residential video customers decreased by 47,000 in the third quarter of 2016, versus a decrease of 20,000 in the year-ago period, driven by higher video … Read more
In the US, home improvement retailer, Lowe’s has developed an app called Lowe’s Vision which uses Tango, from Google, which adds computer vision to smartphones to enable augmented reality experiences. Using the app and the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro (which supports Tango and is the first to do so), consumers can visualise virtual home furnishings, … Read more
Ericsson has released the 2016 version of its ConsumerLab report, a comprehensive survey of 30,000 online and 24 in-depth interviews across 24 countries that the company has published and made freely available. Quite a lot of the value is that the report is published each year, so there is a real sense of the trends … Read more
US market researcher, J.D. Power has said that tablet buyers are less likely to comparison shop where their current product has a strong brand image. J.D. Power has studied customer satisfaction with tablets across five factors (in order of importance): performance (28%); ease of operation (22%); features (22%); styling & design (17%); and cost (11%) … Read more
Q-Vio of San Diego (where it has a Class 1000 clean room) has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first and only commercially available HDMI to MIPI and LVDS to MIPI Converter/Rotator Boards (Patent pending). These new boards provide user-selectable image rotation and mirror image capabilities for standard format HDMI and LVDS video … Read more
The U.S. Department of Education is launching EdSim Challenge, a competition to design educational simulations in virtual and augmented reality with a cash prize pool of $680,000 and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, Oculus, and Samsung. There will be a main prize of $430,000 and five prizes of $50,000. Finalists will also receive mentoring. … Read more
Visionect has collaborated with Soofa, a spin-off from the MIT Media lab, to create a solar-power e-Paper display that provides real-time information on local events and City services at Boston’s pedestrian epicenter, Samuel Adams Park, located outside of Faneuil Hall. The sign is completely self contained and can be moved by simply removing and installing … Read more
Analyst, Ovum, has put out a couple of reports recently. In one, quoted by Digital TV Europe, the conclusion is that telcos will control half of all pay TV in Western Europe and Latin America within five years and it sees the mechanism for this as being the expansion of IPTV services. The website quotes … Read more
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