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Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Kyocera alleging that three of the Japanese company’s phones infringed seven Microsoft patents. According to a Reuters report, Microsoft has asked a federal judge in Seattle to impose a US sales injunction against Kyocera’s alleged infringing products. Microsoft had previously said that it will adhere to the wishes of … Read more
We have held off from the flood of initial streams and comment that came with the Apple announcements on Monday. We’re covering the Apple watch in detail in one article and have a separate article (for both our newsletters) to look at the new MacBook. This is the first new product category that Apple has … Read more
Sony is reported to have started making the first round of job cuts in its mobile business, with news that 1,000 jobs are to go in Sweden. The company is understood to have told staff in Lund that it will almost halve the workforce there from 1st April when Sony begins making structural changes to … Read more
Jonney Shih, chairman of Asus USA, has said that the company intends to triple its smartphone shipments this year. That would put the company’s shipments at 25 million units. Six new markets will be added, bringing the company’s total to 20.
The low season took its toll on Innolux, as it did across most of Taiwan’s manufacturers, with the company seeing sequential falls in both sales and panel shipments in February. The company’s sales for the month fell 24.5% from January to NT$27.2 billion ($859.7 million), though this 9.4% ahead of February of last year. Sales … Read more
Samsung held its “Unpacked 2015” event at the Barcelona Conference Centre on the evening before the show proper opened. It was a big event – with many partners and Samsung staff as well as a lot of media from around the world. The number of attendees would have been in the thousands. The big announcement … Read more
Tobii and EyeTech Digital Systems have entered into a royalty-bearing technology partnership which will give EyeTech access to Tobii’s patented Region-of-Interest Technology. EyeTech becomes the second licensee to receive the ability to use Tobii’s proprietary technology, which is said to be a core component of modern high-speed, power-efficient eye tracking. Financial terms were not disclosed.
TCL Corporation has released its full year results, posting a net profit of $518 million, 60% higher than the previous year, on turnover of $14.4 billion, which was 18.4% higher year on year. TCL Communication Technology, the group’s fastest-growing company, achieved sales revenue of $3.9 billion in 2014, a YoY increase of 60.3%, and net … Read more
Between 16th and 27th March, PSCo is inviting its partners to visit the PSCo Assessment Centre in Reading, where it is showing its newest display technology. As well as a new DigitalMedia control system, the space has five zones dedicated to LEDs (showing pitches down to 1mm); videowalls; high-brightness displays; brackets; ultra-large screens; and players … Read more
There were 20,000 new subscribers to pay-TV services in the Netherlands in Q4’14, according to Telecompaper. Most of these came from IPTV delivered by DSL or fibre. There was a 0.6% increase in overall digital TV subscribers, to 7.76 million, more than compensating for the 4.6% loss in analogue customers. Despite losing share to IPTV, … Read more
Blackberry released a new phone and showed a new smartphone prototype at MWC 2015, even though the company was not officially listed as an exhibitor. In a private event, the company showed that it is still alive and working on developing new phones. The new LTE smartphone LEAP is of the touch only type and … Read more
DisplaySearch reports that OLED TV revenue was up 500% YoY in 2014. In a media briefing in Korea, the firm said that the size of the market reached about KRW300 billion ($267.4 million). 77,000 TVs were sold last year: an increase of more than 1,600% – well above LCD TVs’ 4.3% rise and the overall … Read more
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