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PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in February. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. Optoma’s EH501 held on to the top spot in the large venue category. Epson had the second- and third-best-selling models, again: the Powerlite Pro G6750Wu and Powerlite 1940W. … Read more
Exertis is to donate eight of Dell’s Venue 11 7130 tablets to the TechAid programme in Ghana. The tablets will be used for childrens’ education. The company is also helping to raise money to build a school in Ghana. A £50,000 ($74,000) donation, announced last year, will be completed in September.
Entatech in the UK is to be the first distributor for Hannspree’s first wearable device, the Smart Sports Watch.
Eyevis has appointed Max Hedayat to the newly created role of sales director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Hedayat joins Eyevis from Sweden-based EC Electronics where he most recently served as CEO of the company’s subsidiary in Frankfurt.
OVAB Europe has released its digital signage market survey for the Benelux region over the March/April period. OVAB tracks these results with its Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI). The DBCI rose to the highest level since the survey began, from 67.39 (in January/February) to 71.43 base points. The share of companies describing their current … Read more
Hisense has confirmed the appointment of Andreas Kretz as the company’s new VP of Hisense Europe and head of European R&D for smart TVs, tablets and smartphones. Prior to joining Hisense in February, Kretz worked for Jamdeo, a joint venture company between Hisense and Flextronics.
New vendors, new devices and greater end-user awareness will drive the 2015 worldwide wearable market to new heights, says IDC. 45.7 million units will be shipped this year, says the firm, rising 133.4% from 2014’s 19.6 million. IDC expects shipments to reach 126.1 million units by 2016, at a CAGR of 45.1%. An increased focus … Read more
A rumour circulated the web at the end of March that Microsoft would launch a new Surface tablet sporting 64-bit Windows 8.1, rather than Windows RT. Lo and behold, the Surface 3 was announced on the 1st April. The new tablet ditches the ARM processor used on the original Surface RT and Surface 2 in … Read more
34 million desktop monitors were shipped in Q4’14: an overall fall of 4.4% YoY, but 1.3% higher than IDC’s forecast. Western Europe, the second-largest monitor market worldwide, experienced positive growth of 8.4%. Vendors focusing on the consumer space, like Samsung and LG, fuelled the category. Windows XP renewals also boosted shipments in both public and … Read more
Huawei Technologies Ltd. posted a 32.7% rise in net profit last year to $4.5 billion and a 20.6% increase in turnover to $46.5 billion. Huawei’s consumer group contributed $12 billion to total turnover for the year, up 32.6% on the previous year, thanks to growing consumer demand for smartphones and particularly strong growth in emerging … Read more
E Ink Holdings Inc. posted a net profit of NT$793 million ($25.3 million) in Q4 on turnover of NT$3.7 billion ($118.2 million), which compares with a net profit in the fourth quarter of the previous year of NT$100 million ($3.2 million) on turnover of NT$4.1 billion ($131.1 million). For the year E Ink recorded a … Read more
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a net loss of NT$3.6 billion ($115.2 million) on turnover of NT$56.4 billion ($1.8 billion) for last year. The company shipped 455 million small and medium sized panels, of which 160 million were for smartphone-use, a year on year improvement of almost 40%. Tablet-use panels accounted for 43 million units, … Read more
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