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Vestel Elektronik has released its first quarter results, posting a net loss in Q1 of 74.1 million Turkish lira (TRY) ($27.5 million) on turnover of TRY1.8 billion ($669.3 million), which compares with a net profit a year earlier of TRY51.4 million ($19.1 million) on turnover of TRY1.7 billion ($632.9 million).
The president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, has been named as a 2015 Tech Titan by Washingtonian magazine. Tech Titans are ‘the most influential and exciting people in the local technology scene’. Shapiro was particularly recognised for his role in promoting technologies such as autonomous vehicles and 3D printing.
Cisco has named Chuck Robbins as the company’s next CEO, with effect from 26th July. Robbins has been with Cisco since 1997, most recently serving as senior VP of worldwide operations. The company also announced that current CEO, John Chambers, will assume the role of executive chairman.
Dell has signed an agreement with Tech Data in the UK as part of its “omni-channel” strategy to provide resellers with a choice of buying options. The two companies have already signed distribution agreements in the Nordic region, France and Switzerland. Tech Data joins Exertis and Ingram Micro to provide full coverage of the UK … Read more
The Regent Street Cinema in London – the location of the first public cinema screening in the UK – has re-opened its doors. It is almost 120 years since the inaugural showing, which featured a train moving into and out of a station, and 35 years since the cinema was closed. A 16mm film projector … Read more
GfK Chart-Track data shows that 2 million units of Sony’s Playstation console have been sold in the UK to-date. The console has been on sale for 18 months – reaching the 2-million-unit mark faster than the previous best-seller, the Playstation 2.
Nordisk Film Biografer, a Nordic film developer, has chosen Barco’s DP4K-60L projector to be used in the main screen of its multiplex in the Field’s shopping centre in Copenhagen. The new 1,500-seat cinema complex will be opened in August.
At its recent investor conference, Innolux announced that it will not use quantum dots and will instead focus on its own wide colour gamut technology. Chairman of the board and CEO Hsing-Chien Tsuan said that QD displays consume more energy than standard LCD displays. QDs were also said to use environmentally-harmful materials (i.e. cadmium, although … Read more
Leaked photos of an unnamed Samsung phone are said to be of the Z2, a Tizen model (New Tizen Phones Under Development at Samsung). The device looks more like Samsung Galaxy phones than the original Tizen handset, the Z1.
SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics, has examined the use of a quantum dot enhancement film (QDEF) to cover more of the Rec.2020 colour gamut with an LCD display. Rec.2020 was originally defined for laser projectors – today’s LCD and OLED displays cannot achieve full coverage. SPIE retrofitted two consumer-level LCD displays (a … Read more
OLED-Info has published a new version of its market reports on microdisplays and flexible OLEDs. Find them (paid) at http://tinyurl.com/k8hsu25 (microdisplays) and http://tinyurl.com/m3r8ksa (flexible OLEDs).
Asbis has signed two distribution agreements with Dell which cover the company’s complete range of products, including laptops, PCs and monitors. Dell’s enterprise products and solutions will now be available in Bulgaria and Cyprus. Asbis already offers Dell’s products extensively across the Central and Eastern Europe region.
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