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Android remained the USA’s most popular smartphone operating system in the three months ending in May, data from Kantar Worldpanel shows. Google managed to increase the share of its OS by 2.8 percentage points, taking Android to 64.9%. However, the story was different in Europe’s ‘big five’ countries (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain), … Read more
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, introduces the LightStream™ PJD7 High Definition Series of Projectors, adding to the existing line of LightStream projectors which deliver the ultimate in True-to-Life colours in any lighting condition. With the new PJD7-HD Series of LightStream projectors, ViewSonic aim to address the needs of a variety … Read more
Worldwide IT spending will fall 5.5% YoY in 2015, says Gartner, due solely to the strength of the US dollar. Spending will reach $3.5 trillion – a 2.5% rise in constant currency terms. The new forecast is down from Gartner’s previous prediction, in April, of a 1.3% decline and 3.1% rise in constant currency. “We … Read more
Two low-cost graphics cards, the Geforce GTX 950 and 950 Ti, are being readied by Nvidia. They will use the Maxwell architecture and are said to have comparable performance to the GTX 960. Both units will be based on the GM206-250 GPU, according to early rumours. This GPU supports contemporary systems, such as DirectX 12.1 … Read more
Samsung lost its leading position in the US smartphone market to Apple in the three months ending in April, according to Kantar Worldpanel. The company passed its Californian rival to take back its first-place the following month, however. The three months ending in May encompassed the first full month of sales of the Galaxy S6. … Read more
According to IDC, tablets are seeing increasing use as the only device used by employees in enterprise. The majority of enterprise tablet users in the UK, Germany and France still have at least one other device – such as a desktop, smartphone or workstation. However, a large and growing number use a tablet as their … Read more
Work on CSOT’s new G6 facilities in Wuhan, China, is proceeding ahead of schedule, say sources in Asia. The company believes that mass-production will begin in Q1’17. The line will produce small-to-medium-size high-end LTPS panels, with an initial monthly capacity of about 30,000 substrates.
HTC sponsors India’s Northeast United football team. Here chair Cher Wang is seen with team owner John AbrahamHTC is the latest company to be linked to production facilities in India, following rumours from Foxconn and Innolux last month (Foxconn Looks at India for Expansion and New LCD Lines for Innolux). Industry sources say that the … Read more
Due to its ‘tumbling’ share in the global smartphone market, Asian sources claim that Samsung will ramp up its supply of OLED panels in Q3. Almost half of Samsung Display’s OLED panel capacity has been allocated to producing displays for Chinese smartphone vendors, said the sources.
Philips has partnered with QD Vision once again, this time to release its first quantum dot LCD TV: the 55PUF6850/T3. It is the second Philips-brand display to use QD Vision’s optical components – the first being last month’s 276E6ADS LCD monitor. While the monitor covers 99% of the Adobe RGB gamut, Philips claims 100% NTSC … Read more
Analogue TV signals have been switched off in several regions of Georgia. Digital broadcasts are now available in the capital, Tbilisi, the Sagarejo region, Kojori, Rustavi and Marneuli. Country-wide coverage will be achieved in eight-to-nine weeks.
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today receipt of InfoComm 2015 awards from Systems Contractor News for its HDBaseT OPS expansion board, rAVe Publications for its 98-inch Ultra High-Definition (UHD) display, Sound & Video Contractor Magazine for its 12,000-lumen HD laser projector, and the Global … Read more
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