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Pre-orders have now started for Apple‘s iPad Pro tablet, with sales expected to begin this month. Pricing scales from $800 to $1,080. Asus has enhanced the Zenfone 2 smartphone (Asus Swims Against Current With Mobile Announcements) to create the Deluxe Special Edition. This 5.5″ model features a 64-bit quad-core processor (up to 2.5GHz), 4GB of … Read more
Toshiba Corporation posted Q2 net profits of ¥49.6 billion ($404 million), up 38% from ¥35.9 billion (29 million) a year earlier, on revenue of ¥1.62 trillion ($13.2 billion), down 5% from ¥1.7 trillion ($13.8 billion). For the first half, profits were down 29% to ¥37.3 billion ($303 million) from ¥52.6 billion ($428 million) on turnover … Read more
Parade Technologies has introduced two new touchscreen controllers, in the TrueTouch line acquired from Cypress Semiconductor in August. The TT41X and TT42X controller families are capacitive units, targeting premium tablets and in-cell smartphones, respectively. Both controller families support the use of passive styli, with a stylus tip down to 2.5mm. Additionally, the TT41X supports high … Read more
Ultra-miniature projection display company Microvision Inc. recorded Q3 losses of $5.3 million, up from losses for the year-ago quarter of $3.4 million, on turnover which rose to $2.4 million from $968,000. For the nine months, losses were down to $10.2 million from $14.8 million, on sales of $7.3 million, up from $2.8 million. The company … Read more
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.
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