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Quanta Computer reported its highest monthly sales for 2014 in December of NT$88.8 billion ($2.8 billion), increasing almost 10% from November but 6% down on December 2013. December’s result brought sales for the fourth quarter to NT$251.6 billion ($7.9 billion), 3% higher sequentially but a drop of 7.3% year on year, while sales for the … Read more
Volume production of a 12″ Macbook Air, which will be launched in Q1’15, has begun at Quanta Computer. The company has also apparently secured orders for the Apple Watch, and intends to hire 30,000 new workers to cope with demand for both products.
At the end of Q3’14, Chile had gained almost 200,000 satellite subscribers (up 16.1%), to more than 1.4 million, according to the Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel). Cable and IPTV subscribers rose from 1.26 million to 1.35 million (up 6.6%). Total pay-TV subscribers were just below 2.8 million, up 11.3% YoY.
Chinese phone maker, Huawei, reported a slowdown in growth last year as the company begins to increase investment in its smartphone business. Huawei said that it expects its operating profit to be between $5.46 and $5.53 billion for 2014, marking an increase of 16.4% to 17.8%. In the previous year, the company had reported a … Read more
Clear Channel has been awarded a five-year street furniture contract by Glasgow City Council. Clear Channel has taken on the advertising space in 600 bus shelters, all of which are to be fitted with NFC tags or QR codes. 50 of the shelters will also be upgraded with digital signage.
The Digital Signage Federation in the US has named the CEO of Real Digital Media, Ken Goldberg, as its new chair of the board of directors. Richard Ventura, vice president of business development and solutions at NEC Display Solutions, joins the executive committee as treasurer/secretary. Ken Goldberg Richard Ventura
Some of the largest names in outdoor media in Europe – APG|SGA, Clear Channel, Exterion and JCDecaux – are working together to develop a standardised approach to DOOH audience measurement. A working group from each company has been assembled and is ready to begin the project, which should be completed this year. Display Daily Comment … Read more
Clear Channel Spectacolor has installed a new LED video board, from Daktronics, in Times Square, New York. The site, at 1500 Broadway, hosts a two-sided billboard; Revlon has taken over the billboard and named it (in typically classy fashion) the ‘Global Love Beacon’; it interacts with audiences via a ‘kiss cam’. The billboard has a 10mm … Read more
Planar Systems has promoted Jeff Smith to director of sales for the central US region. Smith has over 30 years of experience in the ProAV industry.
Japanese company Jins is bringing its Jins Meme smart eyewear (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 21) to the US market. The glasses do not contain a display; instead, they are a head-mounted input device. Head and eye direction and movements can be detected and used to control mobile apps.
The Multiphone 5550 Duo smartphone, from Prestigio, is a 5.5″ model with a large, 3,000mAh battery. Protected by Gorilla Glass 3, the display has 1280 x 720 resolution and uses an IPS panel. A 1.3GHz quad-core Mediatek processor runs Android 4.4 and utilises 1GB of RAM. The phone has a Mali-400MP GPU, supports two SIM cards … Read more
NPD held its annual event at CES and we have reported and enjoyed it for a number of years. We loved it in years gone by when Ross Young of DisplaySearch made his “death by powerpoint” talks, but I guess we’re in a minority! These days, the events have become much more about opinion, as … Read more
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