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Toshiba has updated its Chromebook 2 to make available new 5th Gen (Broadwell) Core i3 or Celeron processors as well as adding an LED-backlit keyboard. The display is still a 13.3″ IPS unit (Toshiba Refreshes Chromebooks With Higher Resolution) but is now just in FullHD. Pricing in the US will be $330 (Celeron) or $430 … Read more
Dell has added USB Type-C connectors and Windows 10 to its Venue 8 Pro and Venue 10 Pro as well as changing the CPU to a Intel Atom Z8500 Quad Core processor. Wi-fi is boosted to 802.11ac. Dell was recently announced as a partner for Microsoft’s Surface convertible tablet, which Dell will start to ship … Read more
Microsoft’s Skype had a 15 hour interruption to services on Monday, that it blamed on a “larger-than-usual configuration change”.
Click for higher resolution44% of current tablet users are looking to use a different device according to Gartner. “Replacement activity across all types of devices has decreased,” said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. “Users are extending the lifetime of their devices, or deciding not to replace their devices at all.” As a result, worldwide … Read more
TSMC said that sales revenues are up in Q3 for exchange reasons, but expects a sequential drop in Q4 as weak smartphone demand impacts processor shipments.
Witsview of Taiwan has estimated that 14.43 million notebook display panels were shipped in August, up 21% from July. However, Q3 sales will be just 41.74 million units, down 4% from 43.43 million last year. 17% of this year’s shipments will have wide viewing angles, with even Chinese makers such as BOE increasing its share … Read more
Reports from LEDinside (http://tinyurl.com/pzpxpqz) say that the Chinese LED packaging market is about to consolidate as growth is lower than been hoped and because companies have “huge war chests”.
Xiaomi has launched a new mid-level smartphone, the 4c, for the Chinese market. It has a 5.0″ FullHD IPS LCD (441 ppi) with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor. Memory is 2GB/16GB or 3GB/32GB, there’s a 13mp rear camera and a 5mp front camera, dimensions of 138.1mm x 69.6mm x 7.8mm and a weight of 132g. … Read more
Stingray of Canada, is launching an UltraHD channel “Stingray Ambience 4K” which will show landscapes around the world to Videotron subscribers. The day starts with “sunrise over a Hawaiian beaches” and scenery will change during the day.
Amazon has told Forbes magazine (http://tinyurl.com/nrzlvpo) that it will make six pilot TV shows in UltraHD. Three are half hour and three are an hour long, with a family comedy, a post US Civil War western and a biopic in the mix. After the pilots, the ones that make it to full series will be … Read more
Kyocera Fineceramics GmbH (Esslingen, Germany) has announced development of a technology that can provide “real touch feeling and force feedback” from display screens. Kyocera calls its new technology “Haptivity.” Details of the technology are documented in a European Patent entitled “Input Apparatus and Control Method of Input Apparatus.” It has been assigned number EP 2 … Read more
As a test of VR, NOS of Portugal showed in VR a soccer match between FC Porto and Benfica, at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto. Customers who saw the broadcast were in the Samsung store at the Fórum Almada and at the Nos theatre in the Shopping Colombo centre in Lisbon. Five cameras were … Read more
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