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PMA Research, the worldwide market information specialists on front projectors, has posted their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. Each month, PMA Research posts their “Top 5” Projector Lists for the following categories: Home Entertainment Projectors – This “Top 5″ list is compiled from data collected from … Read more
Holovect (Austin, TX)is developing a laser-based volumetric display in which the complete system can fit on a lab bench or desktop. Company literature clearly states that image produced by the Holovect Mk II is, in fact, not a true hologram. Rather, it is a volumetric vector image in which a 3D projection appears as a … Read more
Apple streamed its event from Cupertino on Thursday, and in high video quality, so we logged on to get the news. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, started by showing a video of an Apple PC being used by a disabled video editor and he announced that the company is starting a new accessibility website. Cook … Read more
Vendors shipped a total of 362.9 million smartphones worldwide in the Q3 2016, according to IDC. Despite the recall of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7, volumes were up 1.0% compared to 3Q15 when vendors shipped 359.3 million units. Sequentially, shipments grew 5.3% from 344.7 million in the second quarter of 2016. (Note: IDC’s totals for Samsung … Read more
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a broad vision to empower a new wave of creativity with a major update coming to more than 400 million Windows 10 devices and the introduction of Surface Studio, Surface Dial and a more powerful Surface Book. Expanding the Surface family, Surface Studio is a new class of device that … Read more
Nintendo Co. Ltd. announced half yearly profits of ¥38.3 billion ($365.2 million), up 234% from ¥11.5 billion ($109.3 million) a year ago, on sales of ¥136.8 billion ($1.3 billion), down 33% from ¥204.2 billion ($1.9 billion). The company saw hardware sales rise 19% YoY to 2.71 million units while software was steady at 19.23 million … Read more
Microsoft Corp. recorded Q1 net profit of $4.7 billion, down from the $4.9 billion reported in Q1 last year, on revenue of $20.5 billion, up from $20.4 billion. Turnover from Productivity and Business Processes was up 6% and sales from Intelligent Cloud rose 8%, while revenue from More Personal Computing fell 2% with phone revenue … Read more
Google got a lot of praise for its Pixel phones and quoted DxOMark ratings as the highest ever received for the quality of the camera, but buyers have been complaining of lens flare seen in photographs. Google has acknowledged the problem and said that there is no point in trying to change units, but it … Read more
Intel Corporation saw Q3 net profit of $3.4 billion, up 9% from $3.1 billion in the same quarter last time, on turnover which rose to $15.8 billion from $14.5 billion. For the nine months there were profits of $6.8 billion, down from $7.8 billion, on revenue of $43.0 billion, an increase from $40.4 billion. The … Read more
We caught up with LG Display’s earnings call, which is always a useful test of the state of the display market. One of the key points was that the company is now in the black (on an EBITDA basis, so just ignore the billions in investment!) on the manufacture of large OLED TV panels, a … Read more
AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) saw Q3 net profits of NT$4.62 billion ($145.7 million), up 37% from NT$3.38 billion ($106.6 million) in the same period last year, on turnover which slipped 4% to NT$86.02 billion ($2.7 billion) from NT$89.3 billion ($2.8 billion). For the nine months there were losses of NT$1.77 billion ($55.9 million), compared with … Read more
As we heard at the Digital Signage event in Munich this year, Omnichannel is no longer optional for major retailers. Now, in an Omnichannel Status Report 2016 compiled by Arvato in cooperation with Salesforce and the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, has said that problems with out-of-date IT structures have turned out to … Read more
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