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Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Processor Powers Premium Tier Mobile Experiences of 2015

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), has a growing customer design pipeline in excess of 60 premium tier mobile devices based on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 810 processor. New devices based on Snapdragon 810 include the LG G Flex2 and the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, with many more expected in the coming weeks … Read more

Worldwide Tablet Shipments Experience First YoY Decline in Q4 While Full Year Shipments Show Modest Growth

Worldwide tablet shipments recorded a year-over-year decline for the first time since the market’s inception in 2010. Overall shipments for tablets and 2-in-1 devices reached 76.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14) for -3.2% growth, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Although the fourth quarter witnessed … Read more

Deluxe Steps Up Role in 4K-UHD Delivery Ecosystem

HD content today is delivered to a dizzying array of devices in a multitude of formats. While we are not there yet for the delivery of UHD-4k content, many of the same technologies and platforms will be used for 4k. Now we have learned that Deluxe is leveraging its existing OnDemand services to offer 4k-UHD content services … Read more

Archimedia Announces Atlas Player Support for 4K 60p and HDR Content on Any Display

Archimedia Technology, a company whose applications bring precise multiformat viewing to the professional’s desktop, TV, UHDTV, and SDI infrastructure, today announced the release of Atlas 3.1.1, the newest version of its full-featured precision media player. Atlas now makes it possible to watch 4K 60p content encoded in practically any format from all kinds of sources … Read more

Barco Finalises Defense & Aerospace Unit Sale to Esterline

Barco has finalised the sale of its Defense & Aerospace division to Esterline in the US (Barco to Sell Defense & Aerospace Division to US-based Esterline). As a result, all employees in the division have joined the Esterline group and Barco’s activities in the defence and aerospace markets have been transferred. In return, Esterline has transferred … Read more

Eye Expands DOOH at Newcastle

Eye Airports is installing new high-res advertising screens in Newcastle International Airport. The Initial rollout is of two 70″ LCD units with 1920 x 1080 resolution; the installation was managed by Eye Airports’ own team. Eye believes that the screens, which add to the airport’s limited DOOH advertising portfolio, will support brand’s campaigns and audience … Read more

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 6

A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia and supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as MacOS versions from 10.8 to 10.10. Users can use the adapter to send signals from a USB source … Read more

BenQ Helps Out Small-Screen Gamers

BenQ is launching a desktop monitor specifically designed for console gamers who prefer a smaller screen. The 27″ RL2755HM has a 1ms response time, colour settings calibrated for console use (with 20 levels of variance) and a rubber finish on the stand to hold gamepads. A hook on the rear supports headset storage. BenQ’s Black … Read more

Epson Performs Well in December Projectors

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in December. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘high-end’. Optoma book-ended the pico and personal category with the ML750 (first) and ML550 (fifth). Asus’ S1 took second place and Aaxa’s P4-X and P300 Pico appeared in third and … Read more

Fujitsu Result 06/02/2015

Fujitsu Limited reported a Q3 net profit of ¥27.6 billion ($235.2 million), down 37% year on year from the previous year’s third quarter net profit of ¥43.8 billion ($373.2 million), on turnover which fell 2.4% to ¥1.1 trillion ($9.3 billion) from ¥1.2 trillion ($10.2 billion). For the first nine months of the year, Fujitsu’s net … Read more