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Global PC shipments will fall 10% YoY in Q4’15, which will weigh annual shipments down to -10.3%, says IDC. Short-term effects, such as the strong US dollar, depressed commodity prices and existing inventory have also lowered the firm’s forecast for early 2016. Shipments are expected to stabilise by the end of next year, and grow … Read more
After Toshiba began legal action against five former employees (Toshiba Sues Former Executives), fifty individual shareholders have sued the Japanese company. They are seeking almost ¥302 million ($2.5 million) in damages, following the firm’s accounting problems (Toshiba CEO Resigns Over Accounting Scandal). The shareholders are also bringing the suit to bear against five executives: three … Read more
Sources in Asia have said that ‘some’ Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 orders have been delayed until Q1’16, due to shortages of Intel’s Skylake processor. Supply chain sources predicted 100,000 shipments for the Surface Book in Q1, and 200,000 for the Surface Pro. The shortages will also affect shipments this year, which will be … Read more
Consumers’ relentless pursuit for richer audiovisual experience has propelled the popularity of virtual reality (VR) devices and drawn in more companies to invest in this market. Furthermore, the competition among the increasing number of players will bring about diversification and growth of VR applications. According to the latest estimation by global market research firm TrendForce, … Read more
A recent article published by Business Insider (‘A Google director explains how your smartphone will look in 5 years’) included an interview with Aparna Chennapragada, a Google director, at the Web Summit tech conference in Ireland last month. As can be expected, the focus of Google is on how many more apps could lead to … Read more
Buyers of professional and technical products like to buy on what they hope will be a rational basis. Of course, there is always room for branding, marketing and the sales and marketing processes, but buyers want to buy products based on specifications, if possible, so that they can contrast and compare different products, ideally with … Read more
The Omate Rise smartwatch (Omate Continues to Go Alone) was launched on Indiegogo last week – and passed its funding goal of $30,000 in 15 minutes.
My attention was caught recently by a whitepaper from Juniper Research, titled ‘eSports – Gamers’ New MVP?‘, which goes into detail to examine today’s fast-growing ‘electronic sports’ scene. These are games played competitively on a PC or console, in most cases against other players. While originally they were mostly played for bragging rights, today millions … Read more
With the ATSC standard for next-generation broadcast television nearing completion, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) today invited a delegation of 11 South Korean broadcast industry experts to witness the first end-to-end transmission of UHD High Dynamic Range (HDR) Scalable High Efficiency Video (SHVC) encoded content using the proposed ATSC 3.0 transmission standard. The broadcast … Read more
AT&T is trialling a new audience demographics tracker with Clear Channel in the USA. Using the AT&T Data Patterns – Out of Home Media tool, advertisers can track footfall and stats such as average age, genders and ethnicity. It will also measure response to adverts. The system works by tracking the location of AT&T’s mobile … Read more
We conducted multiple video interviews at I/ITSEC 2015, and have links to all of them. Highlights include Christie’s Accuframe Pro system, JVC’s move to 100% solid-state light sources and Third Dimension’s 3D demonstration. Boeing does a nice job of explaining how it built up a very complex synthetic database for flight simulators using multiple inputs … Read more
Pioneer LED has launched itself in the UK market, with domestically-manufactured LED displays. Pioneer describes itself as offering ‘a complete turnkey solution…for those seeking to implement or upgrade LED installations within retail, sport, luxury home, and corporate environments’. All products are front-accessible, with pixel pitches from 1.9mm to 6mm. A sub-1mm display will be launched … Read more
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