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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
Toshiba is reported to be in talks with Egyptian home electronics company El Araby about selling 40% of its 51% stake in TV manufacturing facilities in Egypt. The two companies set up their joint venture in 2011, with El Araby taking a 49% stake to Toshiba’s 51%. The report in Digitimes claims that Toshiba wants … Read more
Quanta Computer posted a net profit in the fourth quarter of NT$5.4 billion ($172.6 million) on turnover of NT$251.6 billion ($8 billion), bringing the company’s net profit for the year to NT$18.8 billion ($600.9 million) and turnover to NT$926.3 billion ($29.6 billion).
Sony Mobile plans to ship as many as 38 million smartphones in the 2015 fiscal year (April 2015 – March 2016), according to sources in the handset supply chain. The new figure is slightly down from the 39.2 million units shipped in fiscal 2014, as Sony has shifted its focus to the mid-range and high-end … Read more
Germany’s Bundeskartellamt, an anti-monopoly regulator, has approved Media Broadcast’s business model for use with its DVB-T2 network. The company will offer pay services from commercial broadcasters in HD.
Pete Putman of HDTV Expert has predicted that the production of ‘ordinary’ (1920 x 1080) TV screens will cease by the end of 2016/2017. Quoted in the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers’ (SMPTE) Newswatch publication, Putman says that we are approaching price parity between 1920 x 1080 and UltraHD sets, with a “relatively … Read more
Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will climb 45% from 2010 ($5 million) to 2020 ($7.3 million), according to a forecast by Digital TV Research. However, most of that increase has already taken place and revenues will only climb 17% from 2014 to 2020 (although that is still more than $1 billion). Digital pay-TV revenues will … Read more
360-degree videos are becoming more popular as content for virtual reality headsets, but they can also be viewed on a smartphone or tablet. Just swivel your head or mobile device side-to-side or up/down to see a changing window inside the 360-degree video. You can also use your mouse to navigate the 360-degree video on a … Read more
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