Samsung Makes Ambitious Tizen Plans
Samsung plans to sell 30 million Tizen TVs this year, a source has told Korea’s Yonhap News agency. The figure represents as much as 50% of Samsung’s projected TV sales this year.
Consumers Will Get Hands (and Eyes) on Oculus This Year
Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe is said to have told attendees of CES 2015 that the Oculus Rift headset will be launched by the autumn of this year. Cyberland claims that production has already started.
Signage Enhances New Council Building
A total of €200 million was recently invested into a new city administration building in Utrecht, The Netherlands – part of which went towards digital signage. Brightsign, Hulskamp Audio Visual and VHS worked together to install 34 large-format LCD displays (all 1920 x 1080) and accompanying media players. 23 46″ displays were installed, as well as … Read more
IBM Result 21/01/2015
IBM recorded a net profit in the fourth quarter of the year of $5.5 billion on turnover of $24.1 billion, which compares with a net profit in Q4 of last year of $6.2 billion on turnover of $27.4 billion. For the year IBM posted a net profit of $12 billion on turnover of $92.8 billion, … Read more
AMD Result 21/01/2015
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) recorded a net loss in the fourth quarter of the year of $364 million on turnover of $1.24 billion, which compares with a net profit of $89 million on turnover of $1.6 billion in Q4 of the previous year. The loss was mainly the result of a $362 million one-time write-down … Read more
PC Squeezed Into (Literally) Hand-held Form Factor
A Polish developer, Przemys?aw Strzelczyk, and his team have succeeded in shrinking PC internals down far enough to fit them into a mouse. The Mouse-Box will eventually be a working product, but is currently at a prototyping stage; it features a quad-core ARM CPU (1.4GHz), micro-HDMI port for display connection, WiFi, two USB 3.0 ports and … Read more
FDA Separates Fitness Trackers From Health Products
The USA’s Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance (http://tinyurl.com/q24e7qn) on rules to follow for vendors to get wearable devices classified as ‘general wellness’ products (i.e. not a device for treating specific medical conditions). This certification can protect companies from, for example, a consumer who wants to sue because a relaxation device didn’t cure … Read more
Epson Expands Line of PowerLite Pro G-Series Projectors for Large Venues
Epson US has released eight new Powerlite Pro-G projectors for large venues. Enhancing the feature-set of the Pro-G series, all of the new models have HDBaseT connectivity, as well as support for Extron XTP and the Control4 Simple Device Discovery Protocol. They are also compatible with Crestron and AMX systems. The projectors are the G6070W; … Read more
Western European PC Shipments Save EMEA Region
25.5 million PCs were shipped in the EMEA region in Q4’14, according to IDC: a 2% YoY increase. The market remained positive for the third consecutive quarter, thanks to strong consumer demand. Over the course of the year, the region experienced 5.5% YoY growth with 93.3 million units shipped. Regional differences were pronounced. Consumer demand … Read more
IDC Expects Easing in APAC PC Contraction
The APAC PC market (excluding Japan) was down 6.3% YoY in 2014, to 101 million units. While still a fall, the decline was still an improvement on the 10.3% contraction experienced in 2013. The market was flat YoY in Q4’14, at 25.9 million units. IDC believes that the 2015 result will improve again, although still expects … Read more
Hydis Closes Down its Operations
Hydis Technologies has decided to close down its operations in Korea because of its serious financial difficulties. Earlier this month the company’s largest shareholder, Taiwan’s E Ink, called for a halt to factory operations at Hydis and told Korean government agencies that it will close factories and discontinue production. E Ink has come in for … Read more
Flex-o-Fab Demonstrates Flexible OLED from Roll to Roll Process
Flex-o-Fab, the European research program for OLED, has reported the first OLED device produced by a roll to roll process. The program includes 12 European companies and organizations from different fields which came together to create a a roll to roll (R2R) process for OLED. The co-operation is funded through the EU’s 7th EU Framework … Read more
