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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
Mitsubishi Electric has announced its latest generation of the FLEXConnect In-Vehicle Infotainment systems (IVI) in a press release. The latest system provides a cost effective three screen user interface. The displays contain touch and swipe technology to provide a safe and consistent user interface to the car systems. The three screen interface includes a 12.1″ … Read more
Ongoing improvements in smartphone display performance is leading to increasing demand for high-resolution panels with lower power consumption requirements, which are not supported by the most common legacy technologies (non-crystalline thin-film silicon or a-Si for short). According to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS),, the leading global source of critical information and insight, overall global shipments of … Read more
The worldwide Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to grow 19% in 2015, led by digital signage, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). The second annual forecast focuses on growing IoT use in 11 vertical industries, including consumer, retail, healthcare, government, manufacturing, transportation, and other industries, while also sizing IoT … Read more
(If this story looks familiar, we covered it last week [Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights], but Chris got a lot of extra information.) Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) has developed and manufactured an anti-reflective coating stack that is a key element of a backlight for laser-based holographic displays. The … Read more
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