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Shake Hands with the New Lenovo ideacentre Stick 300

Lenovo has announced the company’s first compute stick, the Lenovo ideacentre Stick 300. Designed for consumer usage in the home and on-the-go, the new pocket-sized compute stick is powerful enough for entertainment and web browsing, while affordable enough for existing PC owners to justify owning a second or third mobile PC option. The ideacentre Stick … Read more

HP Expands Mobility Offerings with New Windows 10 Tablet

HP has unveiled its first Windows 10 commercial tablet, an 8-inch diagonal mobile retail solution, and new capabilities and updates to HP Touchpoint Manager, its IT management solution for small and medium businesses. The company also announced new independent software vendors (ISVs) and partners across the aviation and retail industries to continue to build out … Read more

Customers Get Choice With HP’s Notebooks

HP has shown off new notebooks in its Envy line, which have several options for users: CPUs, GPUs, storage and more. The 14″ Envy 14 and 15.6″ Envy 15 (very innovative names there, HP…) have a longer battery life than their predecessors. The larger unit also features a discrete GPU. Meanwhile, the 17.3″ Envy 17 … Read more

Acer Appeals to Laptop Users With Chrome AIO

Announced in April, Acer’s Chromebase AIO PC – running Google’s Chrome OS – is now available. The DC221HQ is said to be the first AIO running Chrome. Because Chrome has low hardware requirements, Acer was able to use ARM-based components. For instance, an Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC (quad-core Cortex-A15 CPU and Kepler-based GPU) runs the … Read more

Global Display Market to Reach $155 Billion by 2020

Marketsandmarkets has published a new report on the global display market: including LCD, LED, OLED and electrophoretic types. The report (paid: http://tinyurl.com/ptorcva) analyses the display market to 2020. CAGR is expected to be 6% over the next five years, with the overall market reaching a value of $155.5 billion by 2020.

Samsung AMOLEDs Approach LCD Efficiency

Anandtech has posted an article analysing the varying power consumption levels of Samsung’s AMOLED displays, in the Galaxy S4, S5, S5 LTE-A and S6. A white image (forcing the OLED display to draw the most power) was used in the tests. The older Galaxy S4 was, naturally, found to have the least efficient display. Most … Read more

Prestigio Signs Deal with Game

In the UK, Prestigio has signed a partnership with Game to launch various products across the retailer’s 320 stores. Devices which will be available include the Prestigio Grace X3 Multiphone and Prestigio Multipad 3017. Earlier this month, Prestigio also signed a deal with UK homeware retailer, Robert Dyas, to sell its flagship Android tablets.

US DoJ Approves Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent Merger

The US Department of Justice has given its approval to Nokia Networks’ proposed merger with Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia has already gained approval for the deal in Serbia and Brazil, while the EU’s antitrust regulators are scheduled to make a decision by 27th July. In April, the two companies entered into a memorandum of understanding under which … Read more

Broadcasters Cautious About New Technologies

31% of broadcasters see no potential gain from HDR or HFR A survey by Quantel and Snell predicts that 60% of broadcasters only consider UltraHD as relevant to the future (on a two-to-five-year timescale). The survey only briefly touched on UltraHD TV – mostly it was examining attitudes towards IPTV. Only 19% of the respondents … Read more