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UK retail chain Argos has made two new appointments as part of its strategy to become a digital retail leader. Ian Dobson joins the company as head of customer and market insight, in which role he will lead the development of strategies driven by an understanding of customers and how they shop. Matt Hobbs has … Read more
Nanoco Group has appointed Keith Wiggins to the newly created role of COO. He joins Nanoco from Dow and will be responsible for the operational management of the company including key customer relationships and a focus on building Nanoco’s strategic businesses.
A new notebook has joined HP’s Stream 14 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 33), with a similar thin and light design and minimal local storage. Available in two sizes (11.6″ and 13.3″), the HP Stream features up to 1TB of cloud storage via Microsoft OneDrive; a year’s subscription to Office 365 Personal; and a $25 … Read more
Panasonic says that its new Toughbook CF-LX3 is the lightest 14″ notebook available on the market today. Weighing 1.26kg, the product will run on battery for up to 14 hours. The battery will recharge in 3 hours and is replaceable. As a Toughbook, the CF-LX3 is designed to withstand falls from a desk (around 0.75m). … Read more
A technique that bonds a polymeric film to glass, in a way that means it can be ‘easily’ removed by applying heat, has been developed by the Suga Laboratory of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. The research may be used to lower the cost of flexible substrate production. When a polyimide … Read more
Yang Yang, a researcher at UCLA, and colleagues claim to have developed an ‘inexpensive and simple way’ to produce transparent, flexible transistors. Transistors are generally produced using a multi-step photolithography process (printing a pattern onto glass or a wafer, using light). The process is expensive and uses toxic substances. Yang’s approach instead uses inks (referred … Read more
4,000 first-year students at the University of East London have been supplied with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet. The tablets, which have eBooks pre-installed and run customised software, were supplied to aid student learning.
Extenso Telecom in France has been authorised to distribute Apple’s iPhone.
Lenovo smartphones are now being distributed in the Czech Republic by AT Computers and SWS.
The rugged line-up of phones offered by Tech Data has been expanded with products from RugGear Europe. Feature phones, smartphones and tablets for the B2B and B2C channels are now being offered in Germany and Austria.
According to a blog post by NPD DisplaySearch’s David Hsieh (http://tinyurl.com/lgjjegh), panel makers need to ramp up production of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus panels quickly. DisplaySearch estimates that Apple has ordered more than 100 million such panels for 2014. Shipments for the handsets are likely to be in the range of 70-80 million units.
Sources in the upstream supply chain say that Foxconn is seeking to reduce its dependence on business from Apple. The company has been ‘aggressively’ assisting Chinese smartphone brands, such as Xiaomi, Oppo and Meizu.
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