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Argos is planning to open 10 pilot digital stores within Sainsbury’s supermarkets across the UK before the summer. The new format stores will provide customers with a choice of over 20,000 non-grocery products, including TVs, which can either be bought instantly in store or reserved online for collection. The Argos digital stores in Sainsbury’s will … Read more
The Al-Hada Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia, a long-term Barco customer, has extended its display fleet with the addition of a Coronis Fusion 6MP diagnostic screen. Barco’s online MediCal QAWeb management service was also taken.
Mediatek is building a 64-bit octa-core smartphone chip, as it competes against Qualcomm. The MT6752 will be in smartphones shipping by the end of Q2. All eight cores are based on ARM’s Cortex A53 architecture and clocked at 1.5GHz. The chip supports Open GL ES 3.0 and Open CL 1.2, as well as 1920 x … Read more
Toshiba is to cease TV development and sales in North America, and will be licensing its TV business in the region to Compal. New products will begin to arrive in March. Toshiba also has plans to radically change its TV business in all global regions, excluding Japan. The company will replace its own development with … Read more
Sales of large (32″+) FPDs in the USA rose 12% YoY in December, according to PMA Research. The firm gets its data from professional AV dealers and integrators in the USA, serving commercial markets. Commercial- and consumer-grade volume were driven by year-end corporate spending, with many consumer models also sold into commercial applications. PMA found … Read more
Dell has expanded its European distributor base and added Ingram Micro as a reseller of its PCs, notebooks, tablets and displays in Switzerland. Ingram Micro already distributes Dell products in Austria, Germany and the UK.
TechNavio, a tech-focused research firm, has published a new report on the Global Gesture Recognition Market for Smart TV, which is expected to post a CAGR of 33.07 percent from 2014-2019. According to the latest report from TechNavio, development of gesture recognition technologies by OEMs will provide a boost to the global market. Microsoft’s Kinect … Read more
The second generation of Toshiba’s Chromebooks has been introduced, with two different screen resolutions and up to 11.5 hours of battery life. As Chromebooks, the CB30-B-103 and CB30-B-104 are designed to be used while connected to the internet. As well as the 16GB SSD, owners will have access to 100GB of cloud storage on Google … Read more
The old seven-bar clock at the Kennedy Space Centre’s Press Site is arguably a part of history, used in many Apollo launches. Last December, the clock became history, as it was too old to continue to repair. NASA has now replaced it with ‘a new clock for a new generation’: an LED board with the … Read more
Teleplan, a company specialising in electronics after-sales, says that British people throw away more than £1.4 billion ($2.1 billion) every year. In a recent survey, 69% of respondents had had one electrical item break in the last two years, while 23% had had between two and four break. ‘Most people’ simply throw these broken items … Read more
A multi-touch best practice guide is to be introduced by 3M (8.F300). The guide will include advice from 3M and its European partners, to show where and how touch technology can be used. A media server capable of delivering uncompressed 3Gbps playback will be introduced by 7thSense Design (10.R114). The Delta Infinity Media Server has enough bandwidth to power 8k … Read more
In its recent financial report (Samsung Profit Fell for First Time in 3 Years), Samsung said that it is to adopt a new mobile device strategy, following a year of ‘weak earnings’. The company will use ‘new materials and designs’ – effectively, we understand, scrapping the plastic body in favour of metal and glass. Samsung will … Read more
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