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Eutelsat reported Q1 turnover up 8.4%, helped by a weaker Euro, at €387.7 million, compared to €357.6 million YoY. At constant currency, the growth would have been 2%. In terms of applications, only Other revenues and Value-Added Services saw an increase in revenue.
Samsung Electronics reported a significant increase of 29% in Q3 2015 profits to KR₩ 5.5 trillion won ($4.7bilion ), up from KR₩ 4.22 trillion YoY, down from KR₩ 7.5 trillion QoQ. Turnover saw a 9% rise to KR₩ 51.68 trillion ($50 billion) from KR₩ 47.45 trillion ($40 billion) YoY. Net profit was supported by a … Read more
JIN, a Japanese company, has shown off a wearable health tracker with a difference – it is a pair of glasses. Like wrist-worn trackers, the Jins Meme glasses have an accelerometer and gyroscope. JIN says that, because they are worn on the head, they can gather a more precise reading of overall body movement. The … Read more
Samsung is testing and improving the Snapdragon 820 chip, in preparation for using the device in the Galaxy S7 smartphone. According to Business Korea, Samsung will release two versions of the phone: one with the 820 chip and another with one of its own Exynos processors.
The Galaxy View is Samsung’s latest large tablet offering, first seen in a teaser during the company’s IFA press conference – and it is truly massive. Can an 18.4″ device even be described as a tablet? At what point does it become an all-in-one PC? Running Android (5.1), the Galaxy View is more focused on … Read more
LG Electronics reported net profit for Q3 2015 increased to KR₩ 124.8 billion ($106.8 million). Turnover for Q3 remained flat with a modest 0.7% increase to KR₩ 14.03 trillion ($12 billion). Each reporting segment saw an increase in turnover, particularly Home Entertainment, due to improved sales in UHD and OLED TVs.
Nokia reported Q3 net profits increased by 4% YoY at €475 million ($519 million) compared to €457 million ($500 million). The net profit increased in spite of a decrease in turnover of 2% YoY, helped by a weaker Euro, otherwise 10%, at €3 billion ($3.3 billion). Nokia Networks segment, which reported a 2% decline YoY … Read more
A team of astronomers at Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum have built the world’s largest-ever image of the Milky Way galaxy – so big, in fact, that it would take 5,200 70″ UltraHD TVs to display it as a single object. The whole image is made up of around 46 billion pixels, and would take about 364,000″ … Read more
Comcast has said that it is preparing an HDR-capable UltraHD STB for launch next year. The Xi6 will be ‘more advanced’ than this year’s Xi4, which was Comcast’s first UltraHD STB.
106,000 new TV customers joined BT in Q3, taking its net total to 1.3 million. This quarter saw the launch of BT’s UltraHD package and a new UltraHD STB.
355.2 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 this year, according to IDC: 6.8% up from the 332.6 million shipped a year ago. Although the result represented the second-highest quarter of shipments on record, it was lower than IDC’s prediction of 363.8 million units. Limiting factors included slightly lower-than-expected iPhone shipments, and the introduction of … Read more
CGV, a subsidiary of CJ Group and South Korea’s largest multiplex cinema chain, has installed Christie’s groundbreaking 6-Primary (6P) laser projection system in CGV Starium, which houses one of the largest screens in the world. The CP42LH laser projector is designed and configured to achieve a brightness level of over 14fL onscreen in 3D and … Read more
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