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This week, we have published our report on the BETT show which took place at the end of last week and we’ve got into the serious build up for ISE. It’s a busy time of the year and already activity has started for Mobile World Congress. I had a big choice of topics for my … Read more
TeliaSonera’s Swedish TV subscribers rose 16,000 in Q4’14. 4,000 new customers were added in Finland and 7,000 in Lithuania, while Estonian subscribers were flat.
Kyocera Corporation has announced its third quarter results, posting a net profit of ¥30.3 billion ($258.2 million) on turnover of ¥387.3 billion ($3.3 billion), which compares with a net profit of ¥26.4 billion ($224.9 million) on turnover of ¥371.7 billion ($3.1 billion) for the third quarter of last year. For the first nine months of … Read more
Microsoft is reported to have invested in Cyanogen, a company which offers an alternative Android mobile operating system to Google. According to a blog post in the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft would be a minority investor in a $70 million ($) round of equity financing which is expected to grow with other strategic investors keen … Read more
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
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