Electronic Partner to Distribute Hisense in Germany
Electronic Partner in Germany is to become an exclusive distributor of Hisense smartphones and tablets across the country.
Lenovo Names new Head of Channel Business
Lenovo’s head of SMB in Germany and Austria, Robert Pasquier, has decided to leave the company and is to be replaced by Bernhard Fauser. Fauser currently serves as director of sales for Lenovo’s Central Region.
Valve Streams Games Cheaply, Provides Console Release Date
Valve has finally provided a date for the release of its Steam Machine consoles. Units will begin to be released from November this year. At the same time the company showed off the Steam Link: a box that can stream games from a PC or Steam Machine to a TV, at 1920 x 1080 resolution … Read more
Gear VR Consumer Version Coming This Year, Says Oculus
Samsung’s Gear VR (Samsung Brings B2B to Consumer Show) will be launched this year alongside the Galaxy Note 5 – or so implied John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR. Carmack told Game Developers’ Conference attendees that the product would be launched with Samsung’s next hardware cycle. Samsung’s new Note devices tend to be launched at … Read more
Semiconductors Rise to New January High
Worldwide semiconductor sales in January were the highest they have ever been at the beginning of a year, according to the USA’s Semiconductor Industry Association. Total sales reached $28.5 billion – an 8.7% YoY climb from January 2014’s $26.3 billion. Seasonal trends were reflected in the fact that these sales were 2% lower than those … Read more
HTC’s February Sales Rise 27% YoY
HTC achieved a 27.7% year on year rise in sales in February to NT$9.2 billion ($292.1 million), though this was 25% lower than January’s result. Last month’s total brought sales for the first two months of 2015 to NT$21.5 billion ($682.5 million), up 27.3% from the same period of 2014.
TPK January Sales Drop 34% YoY
Taiwanese touch panel manufacturer TPK Holdings reported a 34% year on year fall in sales in February to NT$7.3 billion ($231.7 million), though this was almost 4% higher than January. So far this year, TPK’s sales have reached NT$18.3 billion ($580.7 million). Sources suggest that TPK will benefit this year from orders from Apple for … Read more
DVB-T2 with HEVC Trialled in Czech Republic (Again)
Czech broadcast network operator Ceske Radiokomunikace has begun a second test of DVB-T2 with HEVC, following a trial last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28). This test is expected to last until February 2016.
LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 11
The DS551LT7, a 7,000 cd/m² 55″ LCD display from Dynascan (ISE 2015 Roundup), will be released in the USA in Q1 this year. Imax released a home theatre system back in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 23), and has now released it in the UK. It has two ‘commercial-grade’ projectors with DCI-4k resolution (Imax … Read more
Samsung Electronics Expands Digital Display Portfolio with YESCO Electronics Acquisition
As we forecast in our CES report (No More Plasma for Samsung, But LED is New Category), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced its acquisition of Logan, Utah-based YESCO Electronics, LLC, a leading LED sign and display manufacturer with more than 2,000 installations across the U.S. and abroad. The acquisition reinforces Samsung’s entry into the LED … Read more
Samsung Buys Yesco Electronics
As we forecast in our CES report (No More Plasma for Samsung, But LED is New Category), Samsung has acquired a US-based LED sign and display manufacturer. Samsung has bought Yesco Electronics for an undisclosed sum, reinforcing the Korean company’s entry into the LED display market. Yesco has more than 2,000 installations across the US … Read more
Eye Tribe Shows Low Cost Eye Tracking at MWC 2015
Danish software developer, The Eye Tribe, was showing its latest low cost eye-tracking software at MWC in a use case of controlling a TV.
