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Oliver Ahrens, long-standing senior corporate VP of pan-Asia Pacific operations at Acer, has decided to leave the company. Jason Chen, president and CEO of Acer, is now filling Ahrens’ role. Ahrens was with Acer for 24 years, beginning his service in Germany in 1991. He has also worked in the China, EMEA and APAC regions. … Read more
Acer Inc. saw Q3 net profits of NTD2.94 billion ($90 million), up from NTD867 million ($26.5 million) in Q3 last year, on turnover which slipped to NTD67.2 billion ($2.1 billion) from NTD85.7 billion ($2.6 billion). For the nine months profits were down to NTD47 million ($1.4 million) from NTD1.7 billion ($51.5 million), on revenue of … Read more
Toshiba has begun legal action against five former executives, including ex-CEO Hisao Tinaka. The firm says that an investigation committee, led by ‘outside legal experts’, found that the five had been negligent in their duty, which led to the accounting irregularities earlier this year (Toshiba CEO Resigns Over Accounting Scandal). Toshiba is now seeking damages … Read more
A fully rugged, convertible laptop has been introduced by Panasonic – which says that it is the world’s first such unit. The Toughbook 20 features the reliability of the Toughbook brand and the flexibility of hybrid devices. The 10.1″ touch display (1920 x 1200, IPS panel) has 800 cd/m² of brightness, and is described as … Read more
Vodafone has announced plans to launch a TV service in the UK by March next year – the end of its 2016 financial year. The company recently reported that it had 9.2 million TV customers worldwide at the end of September. The company launched Vodafone One in Spain after acquiring ONO in 2014 and has … Read more
HP Inc. has announced a thin client with a difference: native UltraHD resolution support. Up to four displays can be driven at UltraHD, using the four DisplayPort outputs on the T730 thin client. With the addition of an AMD FirePro GPU, this can be raised to six displays. Additionally, the thin client is supplied with … Read more
The Apple Watch is the company’s only product with an OLED displayAlthough there have been rumours of Apple extending its OLED screen use from the Apple Watch to iPhones, an analyst now claims that the company will stick with LCD technology until at least 2018. Ming-Chi Kuo, of KGI Securities, said that the company’s suppliers … Read more
The US Coast Guard has chosen to purchase flat panel displays from Daisy Data Displays, because of their compatibility with night-vision goggles. The displays, which have a night-vision imaging system, will be used in the C-130H Lockheed aircraft.
Tech Data is now a B2B distributor for Garmin’s wearable products in the UK.
The Snapdragon 820 processor has been unveiled by Qualcomm in New York, with upgrades to deliver longer battery life, faster performance and more efficient operation than previous generations. It should also be able to support external wireless displays. Graphics capabilities have been boosted, with support for Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. New technologies include Qualcomm Trupallette … Read more
Coretronic has said that it shipped 5.6 million backlight units (BLUs) in October: an 11% MoM fall. From January to October, the company shipped 61.6 million units, a 21% fall. Coretronic expects Q4 shipments to fall between 10% and 15% MoM. The company also announced that it shipped 101,300 DLP projectors in October, down 19% … Read more
Asus has said that it shipped 5.5 million smartphones in Q3, and expects this to rise to 7 million units in Q4. Such a result would put annual shipments at 20 million units. Asus also said that it shipped 4.8 million notebooks, following 9.3 million units shipped in Q1 and Q2. 5% – 10% QoQ … Read more
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