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Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) recorded a first quarter net loss of NT$1.2 billion ($39.4 million) on turnover of NT$13.2 billion ($433.4 million), which compares with a net profit in Q1 of 2014 of NT$81.6 million ($2.7 million) on turnover of NT$15 billion ($492.3 million). CPT shipped 101 million small and medium panels in the first … Read more
Smart Technologies Inc. has released its fourth quarter and full year results, posting a net loss in Q4 of $9.6 million on turnover of $99.6 million, which compares with a net loss in the final quarter of the previous year of $3.6 million on turnover of $124.2 million. For the year, the company recorded a … Read more
LG has joined the Windows Phone crowd with a budget smartphone called the Lancet, which is a Verizon-exclusive at US launch. As a Verizon model, the phone’s stand-out feature is the ability to use the network’s Advanced Calling 1.0 service, which is said to provide higher-quality audio by using a cellular network for voice calls. … Read more
Viewsonic’s Lightstream videoprojectors are now available in Russia through OCS Distribution.
Emagin Corporation has released its first quarter results, recording a net profit of $320,000 on turnover of $5.9 million, which compares with a net loss in Q1 of last year of $1.6 million on turnover of $6.2 million. The company said it made progress in key areas of its business in Q1, including developing production … Read more
The UltraHD Blu-ray standard was announced this month (BDA Completes UltraHD Blu-ray), and Panasonic has wasted no time in talking about pricing, with a promise of ‘No thousand-dollar machines’. Ron Martin, of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, has told What Hi-Fi that Panasonic – and most other manufacturers – will be showing UltraHD Blu-ray players by IFA, … Read more
Acer’s S1385WHne professional DLP projector can throw images from short distances. Presenters can use a pen input using Acer’s Smart Pen – from up to 9.7m from the screen – and the unit can be controlled through LAN using Crestron. The projector is 3D-ready and can show images at 24fps, with a 144Hz refresh rate. … Read more
The global tablet processor market will continue to slow this year, says Taiwan’s MIC, based on a saturated market; phablet competition; and low-cost notebook popularity. The market will reach the point of stagnation ‘in the next few years’. Following three years of growth, tablet processor shipments only rose 1.3% YoY in 2014, MIC’s data shows. … Read more
Wistron expects its notebook shipments to be flat in this quarter, from last quarter’s 4.7 million units. However, the company has told the Taipei Times that it is optimistic for the second half of the year, when Windows 10 and Intel’s new Skylake microarchitecure will be launched. Shipments of smart devices are expected to fall … Read more
Sling Media has launched its Slingbox M1 in Europe. The Slingbox can send HD TV content from a user’s home to a mobile device, worldwide.
BAE has announced a partnership with the University of Birmingham with the goal of developing augmented reality systems. The new “augmented reality systems could revolutionize complex emergency response and military battlefield operations, by drastically improving the situational awareness, decision-making and asset management of operators”, as BAE stated in its press release. The company also released … Read more
OTOY Inc. (Los Angeles, CA), is developing a camera system that can capture a spherical light field of a real world environment. Such imagery can be transformed into a virtual world scene that is viewable by a user wearing 3D VR goggles. Most significantly, the new system will eventually allow the user to move freely … Read more
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