Skype Drops Out for 15 Hours
Microsoft’s Skype had a 15 hour interruption to services on Monday, that it blamed on a “larger-than-usual configuration change”.
Replacement Indecision Will Cause Device Sales to Drop
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 Forecasts Weak 4Q15
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.
Notebook Panels Down, but Quality Up
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
China LED Consolidates
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 Aims 4c at China
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 launches a 4K UHD channel for the North American market
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 Planning 6 UltraHD Pilots
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 Developing “Haptivity” Touch Technology
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
Soccer is the First VR Broadcast
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
Tour China from Times Square
The “Experience Day of Beautiful China” global tour event, hosted by the China Intercontinental Communication Center (CICC), officially opened at the Thomson Reuters building in New York’s Times Square last week. The experience used 3D virtual technology to encourage US residents to go to China as tourists.
3D VR Used for Home Sales
A real estate agency in Boulder Colorado, US, 8z Real Estate has started to use 2D & 3D cameras to create 3D scans of rooms. The 3D scans are combined to create 3D, dollhouse, and floor plan views of the home. The technology, from Matterport, allows VR to be used to give virtual tours. Check … Read more
