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Plans to launch an SVoD service in France to rival Netflix have been abandoned. Broadcasters TF1, M6 and France Télévisions had held discussions with telco Orange, with a plan to pool their individual SVoD offerings. Orange would have taken part in the project by providing its sales force and distribution capacity but “marketing acceptability tests” … Read more
An agreement has been reached among 54 World Trade Organization (WTO) members which would expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and eliminate tariffs on an additional list of approximately 200 products, valued at about $1 trillion in annual trade. The products covered by the extension include new generation semi-conductors, GPS navigation equipment and medical equipment, … Read more
BT has released details of its new BT TV Ultra HD package, which includes BT Sport Ultra HD and the company’s new BT TV Ultra HD set top box. On what is claimed to be Europe’s first live sports 4k channel, BT will show the FA Community Shield match on 2nd August, followed by the … Read more
A new “Turing” phone has been developed by Turing Robotic Industries which is based in San Francisco. The company has released details of the prototype phone which is a 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801-based Android system (although it will have a custom front end). The display is a 5.5″ 1920 x 1080 format with a very … Read more
Apple Inc. has released its third quarter results, posting a net profit for the quarter of $10.7 billion on turnover of $49.6 billion, which compares with a net profit in Q3 of the previous year of $7.7 billion on turnover of $37.4 billion. For the first nine months of the year, Apple achieved a net … Read more
Lenovo has confirmed that it will launch at least one new handset simultaneously in Sao Paolo, London and New York on 28th July. The rumours say that the handset (Moto X 2015) will have a 5.2″ 2560 x 1440 AMOLED and a Snapdragon 808 processor.
EVGA is offering a cahsback promotion on its Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics cards. The promotion is open to residents of the UK, European Union, EEA countries as well as Switzerland. Customers who buy any EVGA GeForce GTX 960 graphics card from a participating store between 6th July and 2nd August, 2015, will receive £20 or … Read more
Google Inc. reported a net profit in the second quarter of $3.4 billion on turnover of $17.7 billion, which compares with a net profit of $3.3 billion on turnover of $15.9 billion in Q2 of last year. For the first six months of the year, Google’s net profit improved to $6.9 billion from $6.7 billion … Read more
A number of new notebooks are about to be launched based on the new AMD notebook processor (codenamed Carrizo), according to Tom’s Hardware and PCR-Online. HP will have the Pavillion 15 and 17 and the HP Envy 15 (15.6″). Toshiba is planning four notebooks in Q3, according to the reports, which are the C55D-C, L50D-C, … Read more
Sky Deutschland has secured additional capacity on Astra (19.2° East) from satellite operator SES, as it prepares to introduce an Ultra HD offering. Sky Deutschland’s Ultra HD content will be made readily available to all satellite households in Germany and Austria.
Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) says that as HD panels have become mainstream among China’s newly released smartphone models, several panel makers have started to build new LTPS production lines to manufacture high-end mobile phones. According to MIC, Chinese panel makers in particular have taken a more aggressive stance, such as BOE setting … Read more
A new Nikkei report has forecast that Sharp will report an operating loss in the second quarter of the year of ¥35 billion ($282 million), compared with a profit in Q2 a year earlier of ¥4.6 billion ($36.9 million). The company has continued to struggle with falling LCD smartphone panel prices sold to Chinese vendors. … Read more
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