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Microsoft Corporations’s Q3 net profit dropped 11.9% to $4.9 billion from $5.6 billion in the third quarter of last year, as turnover increased 6.5% to $21.7 billion from $20.4 billion in Q3 of the previous year. Microsoft’s net profit for the first nine months of the year was down 11.8% year on year to $15.4 … Read more
Comcast has terminated its $45.2 billion merger agreement with Time Warner Cable, largely because US regulators were against the merger. Go-ahead for the merger had been in doubt since March after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated that it needed more time to conduct a thorough review of the deal. Comcast first announced its intention … Read more
Google Inc’s first quarter turnover was $17.3 billion, up 12% year on year from $15.4 billion in the first quarter of 2014. The company’s net profit for the first three months of the year rose 3.8% to $3.6 billion from $3.4 billion a year earlier.
Sources in Asia say that supply chains are preparing for an increase in component orders for convertible tablets. Sub-$250 Windows convertibles, based on Intel’s Bay Trail-T CR platform, will be a ‘key target’ for vendors in China this year. Asus and Lenovo are among the companies developing such products, which will also be launched in … Read more
Deloitte’s Digital Democracy survey shows that streaming popularity is continuing to climb across the USA. Such services are now used by more than 42% of households in the country, with streaming content having overtaken live TV as the viewing method of choice. 56% of consumers now stream films and 53% stream TV every month. 45% … Read more
In its press conference and product announcement event in New York, Acer laid out its success during last year as well as the company’s strategy going forward. The location was very remarkable as so far very few events take place in the new New York World Trade Center. While the floor was still under construction, … Read more
Sunday afternoon at the NAB Show Broadcast Engineering Conference was dedicated to a report on the ongoing development of the ATSC 3.0 standard. This next-generation broadcast standard is being developed to replace the existing ATSC terrestrial standard currently used in North America and elsewhere. The technology is being based on state-of-the-art advances in video and … Read more
CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) has released their latest 2015 Ed Tech Next report “Dimensions in Learning: Visualizing, Designing, and Making in 3D.” The report focuses on the growth and potential of 3D in education. “Visualizing, designing and making in 3D are our future.”– Ed Tech Next 2015 Report CoSN is a leading international … Read more
Barco is pioneering the development of a new theatrical format called Escape. The idea is to flank the main theatrical screen with two side screens that can screen a big panoramic image or three separate images – depending upon the creator’s preferences. The movie Maze Runner was the first to feature a 10 minute segment … Read more
There were a lot of developers of 360-degree camera or software companies at NAB – all to feed the growing need for virtual reality content. NextVR NextVR was in the RED booth where it was showing stereo content acquired with its stereo rig featuring RED cameras, of course. This was shown in an Oculus headset, … Read more
There were a lot of developers of 360-degree camera or software companies at NAB – all to feed the growing need for virtual reality content. RTI The benefit of a one-camera 360-degree capture option is the lack of stitching required for multi-camera solutions. On the other hand a single camera solution must spread the limited … Read more
Samsung Display, the largest producer of OLED and LCD electronic display panels in the world, today released key details about its new Flexible AMOLED display— the most advanced in the mobile industry – now being used on Galaxy S®6 edge smartphones. A technical backgrounder immediately follows. “We are witnessing enormous interest in our leading-edge Flexible … Read more
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