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Arrow Electronics, through its wholly-owned subsidiary in Munich, Germany, is initiating an all-cash tender offer to acquire the shares of Data Modul, for a purchase price of €27.50 per share. In conjunction with this tender offer, Arrow has entered into agreements with several shareholders of the company including the Hecktor family and Varitronix Investment Limited … Read more
Panasonic has reached agreement with a real estate developer to sell the main site of its audiovisual equipment business in Osaka. The site has been used to develop colour TVs and other Panasonic consumer products since the 1970s.
Phone Arena claims that LG is to back away from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip in favour of its own device. The chip will be a quad-core ARM unit, with four Cortex-A72 cores and four Cortex-A5. TSMC is expected to manufacture the chip, which will be released towards the end of 2015. Comment LG has previously … Read more
Start-up Neptune has an interesting take on the smartphone/smartwatch combination, with its new product(s): the Neptune Duo. The Neptune Duo consists of two devices: the Neptune Hub (a smartwatch) and Neptune Pocket (a phone-style screen). Unlike most of today’s smartwatches, which are designed to complement a smartphone, the Pocket is an accessory to the Hub. … Read more
Total mobile shipments fell 5.2% YoY in Western Europe throughout 2014 – the second consecutive year that the market has shrunk. Total shipments reached 174.1 million units. Feature phones continued to plummet, with shipments decreasing 39% to 28.4 million units, and a value of $1.4 billion. IDC now classifies feature phones as a niche segment, … Read more
Samsung Electronics’ head of investor relations, Robert Yi, has said that the company plans to use its $56 billion cash to fund growth, which could include mergers and acquisitions. Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Yi said that Samsung was mainly focused on acquisitions which would be a good fit for Samsung’s business, adding that … Read more
Sony plans to form a group called the IP Life Consortium, say Asian sources, to boost IP-based UltraHD video broadcasts. Ten companies, including Cisco and Rohde & Schwarz, will be members.
Orange had almost 7.2 million IPTV and satellite TV customers at the end of Q4 – a 10.4% YoY increase.
More than 3 million households were subscribed to SES’ HD+ platform in Germany at the end of last year. 1.65 million were paying for the service as of 31st December: a 17% increase compared to 2014. 1.4 million households were in a free trial period. Additionally, SES’ TV Monitor survey has found that the number … Read more
At the recent Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam, Jupiter Systems (Hayward, CA) highlighted three new product lines in its booth. These included Canvas 3.0, the newest version of its collaborative visualization software, the CRS-4K for Canvas-based huddle rooms and an expanded Fusion Catalyst 4500 family of display wall controllers. Canvas 3.0 Canvas is collaboration … Read more
Xara has released a new version of its all-in-one graphic design package, Designer Pro X10. Since 1994, when Xara first launched its vector graphics design tool, this piece of software has rivalled products from Adobe and CorelDraw. Xara combines functionality with ease of use as well as value for money. Xara’s fast and flexible performance … Read more
After showing off its SED-E1 augmented reality headset at IFA and CES, Sony has now announced that the SmartEyeglass Developer Edition is going on sale in selected markets on 10th March, 2015. The first markets are Japan, US, UK and Germany and the device is now on pre-order in the UK and Germany. It will … Read more
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