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Lenovo has realigned its business groups and geographies following the integration of Motorola Mobility and IBM’s System X server business. Gianfranco LanciGerry SmithIn a new leadership role, Gianfranco Lanci has been named corporate president of Lenovo, taking responsibility for all of Lenovo’s geographic sales organisations and adding the enterprise business group (EBG) to his existing … Read more
Konica Minolta will demonstrate a prototype of its metal mesh transparent conductive film at Finetech Japan (8th – 10th April, Tokyo Big Sight, stand 45-42). The film was manufactured by an inkjet process. A touch panel sensor film is under development. The company will begin to make evaluation samples available by request.
A very low-cost smartphone has been introduced by Microsoft. The Lumia 430 is a Windows Phone with dual SIM slots, available for just $70. It is also ‘the most affordably-priced Lumia that will be able to upgrade to Windows 10.2.’ As with other Lumia phones, Skype, OneDrive (30GB) and Microsoft Office are pre-installed. The phone … Read more
The coverage of MPEG’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License has been updated, to conform with recent revisions to the HEVC standard. As a result, the profiles now include Main, Main 10; Main Still Picture; Multiview; Scalable; Format range extensions; and Format range extensions high throughput profiles.
A prototype smartphone for rugby lovers has been built – using grass from Twickenham Stadium. In an effort to boost its recycling credentials, O2 created the concept unit using tens of thousands of blades of grass from the Stadium, as well as components from older phones. The grass was freeze-dried shortly after being cut, then … Read more
Atrust of Taiwan has introduced a new mobile thin client running either Windows Embedded Standard (WE8S) (MT168W) or Linux (MT168L) The thin client is an 11.6″ model (1366 x 768) with a dual-core 1.58GHz Intel Bay Trail processor and a Trusted Platform Module chipset, to protect data. It is able to run major protocols and … Read more
The UK price of Acer‘s Revo One RL85 (Acer Attempts to Kickstart Notebook Innovation) has been shared. The mini PC will be available from the 6th April and will start at £200 ($300), scaling to £500 ($745) for the most expensive version. Acer has also launched its C910 Chromebook (Acer Iterates on 15″ Chromebook Design) … Read more
81% of US households own at least one HD TV, according to the Leichtman Research Group, and 51% own multiple HD TVs. This is up from 46% and 17% in 2010. UltraHD TV awareness has grown rapidly, to 41% of US adults (from 30% in 2014). 26% of those who have seen an UltraHD TV … Read more
Lenovo (Motorola’s new owner) CEO Yang Yuanqing appears to have pre-empted an official announcement of a next-generation Moto 360 smartwatch, by sharing a picture on his Weibo account. Yang alluded to the smartwatch in the post, which was quickly deleted. A new design, with lugs to attach new bands and which hides the ambient light … Read more
IHS DisplaySearch has released its panel price data for March. Downward trends were seen in almost every market segment. Weak demand meant that monitor panel prices continued to fall. Vendors still have inventories, so panel makers are finding sell-out a challenge and are offering many incentives and deals. Due to slow demand for notebook and … Read more
A contract to operate street furniture in the Hague area, in the Netherlands, has been won by Exterion Media. Exterion will operate the furniture for the next five years. The contract covers 2,500 advertising spaces on a 2m² format.
Tino LohseHisense Germany has hired two new regional sales executives. Tino Lohse joins the company from Schmid Electronics GmbH and has also worked for Vestel and Beko. He will be responsible for sales in the southeast of Germany. Michael Huml takes charge of the northeast region and joins Hisense from Pioneer Electronics Deutschland Automotive.
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