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Hannspree Licenses Windows for Micro PC Stick

Hannspree Micro PC HDMI stick

Just one day after Inlighten announced its Argo Windows-based ‘PC’ HDMI stick, Hannspree has followed with a similar product called the Micro PC. Hannspree’s device runs a fully-licensed version of Windows 8.1 on a 1.33GHz quad-core Intel Atom processor, with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. It will add PC functionality, like email and web … Read more

Sharp Forecasts Results Shortfall

Sharp confirmed this week that its financial results for the year ending in March 2015 are expected to fall short of the company’s last forecast in October. The company was responding to claims in the Nikkei that Sharp would record a loss for this year, reversing the company’s forecast of an annual profit. In a … Read more

Lapexpand Seeks Funding

LapExpand conceptual laptop expansion

Lapexpand is a project that is seeking crowdfunding on Indiegogo (http://tinyurl.com/ph7asmp), and intending to bring the full desktop experience to mobile computing. The company is developing portable, lightweight monitors (1920 x 1080) that fold down onto a laptop when not in use, and can expand out when a user needs more screen real estate. The … Read more

Rumours Fly Before MWC

MWC is widely expected to serve as the launch platform for a number of tier one manufacturers’ flagship products this year, given their absence from the CES tradeshow.  Rumours about Sony‘s Xperia Z4 have been circulating for several months, and – naturally – many are contradictory. We can probably trust claims that the phone will … Read more

New Large-Format Monochrome Ultra-Glow LCD Marine Instrument Displays from Garmin

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., today announced the GNX 120 and GNX 130, two new large-format marine instrument displays designed for serious sailors who demand quality, precision, and total integration. “Garmin’s new GNX instruments boast the brightest and most visible digits available in the market today, providing superior readability day or night,” … Read more

Sky Factory Launches eScape 2.0, Smart Digital Cinema Virtual Window with Integrated Platform

Sky Factory’s best–selling Digital Cinema Virtual Window, eScape, now brings the dynamic beauty of nature—real-time moving images and sound in Full HD—in a simpler integrated platform that features an intuitive on-screen menu, easy to order plug and play content, and no longer requires an external playback unit.   “With eScape 2.0’s integrated platform, users can … Read more

Fujitsu Nominates New President

Tatsuya Tanaka Fujitsu

Fujitsu has nominated Tatsuya Tanaka as its new president, to replace Masami Yamamoto when his tenure comes to an end in June 2015. Since April last year, Tanaka has been overseeing Fujitsu’s operations in Asia, outside of Japan, as senior vice president. In June, when his appointment is approved by the board of directors, Yamamoto … Read more

MEA Smartphone Market Booms as 4G LTE Shipments to GCC Grow 400%

GCC shipments of 4G LTE handsets have increased more than four times over the last year and are now close to accounting for one half of all smartphones sold in the region, according to the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC).   The market intelligence firm’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker shows that smartphones now … Read more

Casio to Release High-Value Entry Level Projector XJ-V1

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced the release of a new generation projector XJ-V1 which succeeded to overcome several technical hurdles and realized practical enough 2700 ANSI lumens brightness at the field of education and business at surprisingly reasonable price1 in Laser & LED SSI (Solid State Illumination) projector category. The XJ-V1 will provide everyone who … Read more

SFO Ends HP/Autonomy Investigation

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has concluded its investigation into the sale of UK software company Autonomy to HP and says there is no case to answer. The investigation began in 2013 after HP claimed that the former management of Autonomy had overstated the value of the company, leading HP to record a non-cash … Read more