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Hungarian Pay-TV Continues to Grow

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that around 3.44 million homes in the country are now taking a pay-TV service. The 10 largest pay-TV providers were responsible for 3.16 million of these. The eight largest IPTV/cable players had a combined total of almost 2.5 million subscribers, while the three major DTH companies had 900,000. Regardless of … Read more

Online Video Revenue Boom in Europe, Says IHS and SpotX Study

A new study released today by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, and SpotX, the video inventory management platform for publishers, found that revenue across Europe from online video jumped from €22 million in 2012 to €375 million in 2015. IHS forecasts that €2 billion, which is over … Read more

Rovi Boosts Speech and Surveys Users on Content Discovery

Last year, one of the most impressive demos that we got was at Rovi when the firm showed us its natural language user interface tool. The system was good at understanding the context and likely meaning of requests. This year, the company has added Spanish to English as a supported language and there have been … Read more

LGD Will Show Rollable TV at CES

LG Display is still on target to develop 60″, UltraHD, flexible and rollable transparent panels by 2017, the company has said – which it is working on as part of Korea’s Future Flagship Programme (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 27). Our only update since then came in February 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 8), … Read more

Source Claims Foldable Phone Will Arrive in 2016

A leak on Chinese social network Weibo – from a source that has been correct on Samsung stories in the past – claims that Samsung will launch its ‘Project Valley’ smartphone (Rumour: Project Valley is Samsung’s Foldable Phone) in January. The source says that the phone is being tested with Snapdragon 620 and 820 chips. … Read more

Qualcomm Makes Fast Charging Even Faster

Qualcomm has announced the third-generation of its Quick Charge technology, which will be able to charge an average phone from 0% to 80% in 35 minutes. It is said to be almost 40% more efficient than Quick Charge 2.0, thanks to Qualcomm’s Intelligent Negotiation for Optimum Voltage algorithm. The technology is expected to appear in … Read more

Nokia’s Alcatel-Lucent Deal Receives Go-Ahead

Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Sign MOU) has been approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). With the clearance from CFIUS and the Department of Justice (US DoJ Approves Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent Merger), the companies have received all of the regulatory approvals required for the transaction in the USA. Nokia … Read more

HP to Cut 10% of Workforce

Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, has said that the company will need to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs in its process of splitting (HP to Split into Two Companies) – equal to about 10% of the current workforce. Whitman will become the CEO of HP Enterprise in November, which will have responsibility for servers, … Read more

Sharp to Release World’s First 8k TV – Next Month

Sharp will begin selling an 8k TV in October this year – the first-such model to be made commercially available. Known as the LV-85001, the unit will be an 85″ set costing ¥15.2 million ($125,700) ex VAT. Sharp is targeting the TV at broadcasters and other groups involved in testing the 8k format, rather than … Read more