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Foxconn Manager Stole ‘Thousands’ of Smartphones

A senior manager at Hon Hai, known only by his surname (Tsai), has admitted to stealing thousands of smartphones from a factory in Zhengzhou and selling them privately in China. The thefts are estimated to have made about $760,000. Local media says that between 4,000 and 5,000 phones were stolen, including iPhone 6 models. Prosecutors … Read more

Sony to Reach Shipment Target

Taiwanese sources say that Sony Mobile Communications’ smartphones shipments rose more than 20% QoQ in Q4’14, to 11.9 million units. Combined shipments for Q1-Q3 in Sony’s fiscal year were 31.2 million units. More than 8 million handsets are expected to be shipped in this quarter, achieving Sony’s target of 39.2 million smartphones shipped in the … Read more

NAB Files Petition to Correct Television White Space Database Design Flaws

The National Association of Broadcasters filed a petition today with the Federal Communications Commission requesting a rulemaking to correct serious design flaws in the television white spaces (TVWS) database system. NAB also filed an emergency motion to suspend operations of the TVWS database pending completion of the rulemaking or until temporary methods to ensure accurate … Read more

Lower Partner Orders Expected From Sony

Industry sources in Taiwan expect Sony to lower its TV and smartphone orders to production partners in Taiwan. The prediction comes following continued low sales of these products. According to the sources, Sony has placed ‘almost no orders’ with Foxconn for the first half of 2015, compared to the ‘several million’ orders placed in previous … Read more

Display Week 2015 Sets Sights On Silicon Valley To Show Global Technology Hub The Future Of The Display World

Display Week 2015 Sets Sights On Silicon Valley To Show Global Technology Hub The Future Of The Display World http://www.virtualpressoffice.com/publicsiteContentFileAccess?fileContentId=1922403&fromOtherPageToDisableHistory=Y&menuName=Home&sId=&sInfo= Future Generations of Large Curved TVs, Automotive Displays, Wearables and Mobile Devices Take Center Stage at San Jose Convention Center Starting May 31 CAMPBELL, Calif., March 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Society for Information Display … Read more

Track the Latest Trends in Wearable Technology at the Display Week 2015

Track the Latest Trends in Wearable Technology at the Display Week 2015 Business Track Series, Co-organized by SID and IHS/Display Search We recently caught up with John Jacobs, SID’s Conventions Vice-Chair: BC and MFC, to get a sneak peek at some of the hottest display developments hitting the wearables industry during the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus … Read more

Swatch Outlines Plan for Smartwatches

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Just a few weeks ago the Swatch Group announced the Touch Zero One, its first Swatch smartwatch. We recently reported on the new smartwatch and the near field communication aspect in a short article (NFC Makes Swatch Watches Smarter). In a recent interview with Swatch CEO Nick Hayek, Bloomberg Business reports that Swatch has its … Read more

Global Devices Shipments to Grow 2.8% in 2015, says Gartner

Worldwide combined shipments of devices (PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones) are estimated to reach 2.5 billion units in 2015, an increase of 2.8 percent over 2014 (see Table 1) according to Gartner, Inc. In spending terms, the global computing devices market (PCs and ultramobiles) is on pace to reach $226 billion, a 7.2 percent … Read more

Rumor: Apple Working on Augmented Reality Solution

Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray claims that Apple is evaluating augmented reality as a future platform. He bases his assessment on information from industry analysts that Apple is assembling a small team to explore augmented reality. This story was picked up by CNet and other news outlets. One of the arguments used to … Read more