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Blackberry CEO John Chen has admitted that the company may be forced to stop making smartphones. If the current state of business carries on, and efforts to turn the company around fail, then it may be the only option, he said. It is still possible for Blackberry to remain in the smartphone market. The company … Read more
Humans are very good at detecting position within 3D space, that is precisely what Google’s Project Tango, Intel’s Real Sense and others entering the space are looking to achieve. 2nd Gen Tango Device Shown in Korea SKT Event, Source: GoogleThe companies are using positional or “motion tracking” of mapped 3D space to give the sense … Read more
AT&T reported Q2 net profits of $3.0 billion, compared with $3.5 billion in the year-ago quarter, on revenue of $33.0 billion, up 1.4%. U-verse TV lost 22,000 subscribers in the second quarter as the company focused on profitability.
The ISTE 2015 educational conference, with over 21,000 in attendance, is the largest ed-tech conference held in the U.S. As expected, ISTE experienced solid growth in attendees this year, but the conference also topped all previous ISTE conferences for overall quality. Yet the real story underlying this conference begins and ends with some starkly visible … Read more
Gaming PCs consume roughly 75 billion kilowatt-hours per year of electricity in 2012 – 20% of global PC consumption. Evan Mills of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nathaniel Mills of GreeningTheBeast.com just published a study, in the journal, Energy Efficiency, that presents a novel analysis of the energy use of gaming PCs. We (Jon Peddie … Read more
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch OS shipments grew an impressive 457 percent annually to hit a record 5 million units in the second quarter of 2015. Android Wear struggled, due to Apple watchOS competition, and it declined to 11 percent marketshare in the quarter. Cliff Raskind, Director at Strategy Analytics, … Read more
Royal Caribbean International partnered with Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, in conjunction with Robotic Arts and ABB, to implement a never-been-done-before visual experience for their new Quantum Class cruise ships. Anthem of the Seas made its first voyage on April 22, 2015 with the visual spectacular first showcased on the maiden voyage of Quantum … Read more
It was back to the office with a bang this week for me. Because of staff vacations, I had to work close to full time on our newsletters. Next week, we are planning our annual publishing break. We plan to keep putting some major stories onto the website, but the next pdf issue will be … Read more
Toshiba’s president and CEO, Hisao Tanaka, along with five other senior executives, have stepped down from their positions over the accounting scandal which emerged last month. The company announced a sweeping reorganisation of its corporate leadership team, including former executives, who said they took full responsibility for the accounting malpractice which saw Toshiba overstate its … Read more
While we didn’t expect Tim Cook to bare all with the Apple Watch sales, there were some indications in the quarterly earnings call that shed some light on the wearable’s performance. Although the Watch revenue has been part of the Other Products category, Cook did mention that ‘It would not be an inaccurate thing to … Read more
A new version of the Blackberry Passport smartphone (Blackberry Passport Veers From ‘Traditional’ Design) has been released in the USA. The Passport Silver Edition has a more rounded design and a silver colour, rather than the original’s all-black colouring. Other specifications are the same. The smartphone will be launched in Europe in the coming weeks, … Read more
Visionox has shown a prototype rollable, flexible AMOLED panel. It is a 4.6″ unit with 800 x 480 resolution. The prototype has a curvature radius of sub-3mm and a thickness of 20µm. The plan, according to Visionox, is to mass-produce its new panel within two years. A video of the prototype, which obviously still has … Read more
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