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Toshiba’s Z30-A-1C is a Slim Business Notebook

Toshiba unveiled its Portege Z30-A notebook series in July, although we were not covering the product category as fully as we are now. All models in the series are thin (13.9 – 18mm) and lightweight (1.2kg), designed for business users. The Z30-A-1C is the latest to be released. Featuring 4G connectivity, the laptop also boasts … Read more

TSMC October Sales Reach NT$80 Billion

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) saw sales exceed NT$80 billion ($2.6 billion) for the first time in October, its fourth consecutive record monthly sales figure. Last month’s result represented a 56% year on year increase in sales and brought sales so far in 2014 to NT$621 billion ($20.3 billion), 23.5% higher than a year earlier. TSMC … Read more

TUV Grants Acer New Low Blue Light Certification

TUV Rheinland (Greater China) has granted its Low Blue Light certification to Acer’s monitors – the first company to receive the accreditation worldwide. Blue light filters are used on the B6 and V6 professional models, as well the K2 consumer series. TUV’s Low Blue Light certificate is based on its 2PfG testing standard. A display’s … Read more

TV Shipments Rebound After Soft First Half

TV shipments climbed 4% YoY in Q3’14, following several quarters of low results – average TV shipment growth was less than 1% on both a unit and revenue basis in the first half of the year. LCD TV shipments barely compensated for falling plasma and CRT shipments. However, LCD TVs were up almost 9% in … Read more

UAE Smartphone Market to Top $9.3 Billion

A report on the smartphone market in the United Arab Emirates is now available at Research and Markets (http://tinyurl.com/lpfyggs). Smartphone demand in the country has risen swiftly over the last five years, especially with new lower-cost offerings and 4G services being introduced. Research and Markets’ report predicts that the UAE smartphone market (including ‘smartphones’ (sub-5″) … Read more

uBeam Secures $10 Million Funding

Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, and was first made public in August this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 31). Perry says that there is still … Read more

UK Retailers are Positive About Christmas

A survey of 300 UK retailers by Barclays has revealed that almost 70% believe that the Christmas trading period this year will be better than last year’s. This compares to 52% who felt the same way in 2013. The survey has also shown that the USA’s Black Friday’s tradition is gaining traction in the UK; … Read more

UltraHD on my Lenovo

I had a joyous moment this week. My Lenovo T440S was rated to support a maximum 2560 x 1600 resolution when I bought it at the end of last year. I had assumed that I couldn’t run UltraHD displays, which was frustrating as a display specialist. However, in a conversation with Eizo about UltraHD, I … Read more