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Amazon.com today officially kicked off the countdown to Black Friday with the launch of the Black Friday Deals store and Electronics Holiday Gift Guide. This year, Prime members can access more than 30,000 Lightning Deals 30 minutes early and all customers will find tens of thousands of deals on more of the items they want. … Read more
TVOne has named Denise Nemchev as its new CEO. She was previously president of the AV segment and VP of business transformation at TVOne’s parent company, Nortek.
The SkyQ set-top box (SkyQ Box Will Challenge OTT Operators), according to The Telegraph, will support UltraHD content. The company is said to be working ‘furiously’ to get the STB out as soon as possible, and is holding an event on the 18th November to launch an unnamed new product.
The 4k World Summit Sevilla, in Spain, will discuss the topic of UltraHD broadcasting on the DTH, DTT and OTT platforms. Organiser Medina Media has gathered speakers including Thierry Fautier (UltraHD Forum), David Wood (DVB) and Andy King (BBC). The event will run from the 5th – 6th November. Register at http://tinyurl.com/q96k6jj.
Westcoast, a UK distributor, has lowered the price of its curved Samsung‘s monitors. The 24″ LS24E510CS/XU 119 is down from £145 ($225) to £120 ($185). The LS27E510CS/XU 57 now costs £145 ($225), down from £175 ($270).
Iiyama’s webpage about its new 27″ gaming monitor is full of hunting metaphors. The display will ‘spike down on your enemies’; it is ‘a powerful predator’, showing ‘no mercy’. It is the G-Master GB2788HS-B1 Red Eagle. With support for AMD’s Freesync, there may actually be some truth behind the PR puffery. Iiyama’s monitor has a … Read more
Spanish trade body IAB Spain has found that around 4.3 million people in the country regularly use connected TV. 64% access through smart TVs, followed by games consoles (29%), PCs (28%), hybrid DTT (10%), Blu-ray players (8%) and STBs (5%). The amount of users who no longer consume linear TV increased, from 24% last year … Read more
Data compiled by Thomson Reuters IP & Science shows that Samsung is making a concerted, if late, push into the automotive market. Samsung produced its own cars as Samsung Motors until 2000, when it sold 70% of the business to RenaultBased on patent filings between 2010 and 2013 (the limit of patent visibility), Reuters has … Read more
BenQ has opened a new digital signage showroom at its headquarters in Oberhausen, Germany.
Q3 was the fourth consecutive quarter of falling worldwide tablet shipments, says IDC. Despite signs of a slight seasonal improvement, shipments slipped 12.6% YoY to 48.7 million units. Many mature markets, such as North America, Western Europe and APAC, are now saturated with tablets – there are thought to be more than 100 million in … Read more
STMicroelectronics reported Q3 net profit of $90 million, a 25% increase YoY and a massive 157% increase QoQ. Turnover was reported at $1.76 billion, down 6.5% YoY, sequentially remaining flat. Gross margin was reported at 34.8%, a half-percent increase YoY. For the nine month period, net profit was reported at $102 million, compared to $85 … Read more
Additive Manufacturing (AM), better known as 3D printing, has taken off since a patent on the topic was issued in 1984 to Charles Hull who used a photo-crosslinkable polymer material. Most current 3D printing technology dates to this patent. Researchers at MIT have recently published a paper on the use of optical grade glass for … Read more
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