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Wortmann AG has expanded its Terra Pad range of tablets with a rugged professional model called the Terra Pad 1090 Industry W8.1 Pro. Featuring hot-swappable batteries and modular options, such as a barcode reader, the tablet meets the MIL-STD 810G and IP65 certification standards. The Terra Pad’s 10.1″ display has 1920 x 1200 resolution and … Read more
Vodafone Germany says that its CEO, Jens Schulte-Bockum, has announced his intention to resign within the current financial year. He has worked for Vodfaone for 12 years, including serving as group strategy director and CEO in the Netherlands. Schulte-Bockum will continue in the role until a successor has been appointed.
Tony Fadell, head of Google’s Google Glass project, has said that the company is still planning a consumer version – but it may not look like the original concept. Fadell told the Google Zeitgeist conference, in the UK, that there would be “no sacred cows” in the rethinking process.
A Taiwanese supply chain source has said that several vendors are seeking to become the next partner for Google’s Nexus smartphone lines. These include Lenovo, Xiaomi, Huawei and LG. The source said that, as LG has been used in the past, a Chinese company is more likely to be chosen.
Foxconn Electronics and Pegatron both reported strong first quarter results but cautioned that the second quarter would be weaker before sales rebound in the second half of the year. Foxconn’s Q1 net profit jumped 55.5% year on year to NT$30.4 billion ($999.1 million), the highest profit for the January-March quarter in the company’s history, while … Read more
Lower-than-expected sales of the HTC One M9 could cause HTC to reduce component orders for the product by as much as 30%, say sources in Taiwan.
Mediaset and Sky italia are reported to be in negotiations about setting up a joint venture pay-TV company. According to Italian sources, Sky Italia would take the majority stake in the JV, which is certain to attract the attention of Italy’s Anti-trust Authority. The two companies’ combined pay-TV subscriber base is in excess of seven … Read more
NHK will show its latest developments in Super Hi-Vision (8k) transmission at its Science & Technology Research Labs open days (28th – 31st May). Content will be sent to the location of the event using NHK’s BSAT-1 satellite; a compression system will shrink the 72Gbps stream to 85Mbps for broadcast, using HEVC encoding and the … Read more
Vodafone has announced that it ended its financial year (31st March) with 9.1 million TV customers in Europe. The TV service will arrive in the UK later this year.
More than 1 billion digital TV homes will be added globally between 2010 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. The total will rise by 180% to 1.65 billion at the end of the forecast period – with 134 million new homes this year. Global DTV penetration will reach 97.6% by the end of 2020, up … Read more
SES will broadcast Europe’s first free-to-air UltraHD channel, Pearl.tv, when it goes live in September. Pearl.tv is a shopping channel that will be broadcast in Germany.
Market research firms have been reducing their tablet forecast since the sales growth has been slowing in 2014. The latest numbers from IDC, which we reported on earlier, show a 6% decline in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the first quarter of 2014. It seems that there’s a new trend developing that does … Read more
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