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VIA to Show Low Cost Android Digital Signage Player

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Via Embedded, a division of Via Technologies Ltd. (New Taipei City, Taiwan) announced on March 4th that it will demonstrate its two low-cost (Under $200) Android media players at Digital Signage Expo (DSE 2015) …

Andromium MHL Dock turns Smartphones into Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

Andromium has developed a “guest OS” and hardware dock to turn smartphones into notebooks, exploiting the MHL architecture. The product is aimed at developing markets and the firm says that complete packages of phone …

Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has hit back at Razer’s Forge TV (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield) with its own Android-based game-streaming set-top box: the Shield Android TV Console (doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue – TA). It is …

Apple Passes Samsung to Take Smartphone Market Lead

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales reached 367.5 million units in Q4’14, rising almost 30% YoY. Gartner’s data shows that Apple displaced Samsung as the market leader – a spot that the Korean company has held since …

Android OS Dominates 53% Market Share for Smart Device Operating Systems for the Year 2014, Says ABI Research

by Helen Vince

In this market data, smartphones and tablets help boost Android’s reign over all smart device OSs for the year 2014. This report analyzes notebook PCs, smart cars, smartglasses, smartwatches, smartphones, tablets, and Ultrabooks from …

Tags:Android| SmartGlasses| Smartphones| Smartwatches| tablets

Kiosk Group Announces Next Generation of iPad, Android and Windows Kiosks

by Helen Vince

Kiosk Group, Inc. has revealed the next generation of tablet-based self-service kiosks with its Revolution 16 and Revolution 24 enclosures. The Rev16 and Rev24 have been designed to offer short lead times, low-cost implementation …

Tags:Android| iPad| Kiosks| tablets| Windows

Android 2014 Share Eclipses Total 2014 Smartphone Market

by Tom Allen

Android and iOS maintained their dominance of the worldwide smartphone market in Q4’14, says IDC, and in fact managed to improve their market share by double digits. These two operating systems represented 96.3% of …

More BYOD, Fewer Displays at Toy Fair 2015

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I went to the Toy Fair 2015 in New York on February 15th. One thing I saw very little of was toys with displays in them. Instead, since everyone has an iPhone, or so …

Tags:Android| BYOD| iOS (Apple)| Toys| Vol 22 - Issue 09

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 9

by Tom Allen

Asian sources have said that three major notebook vendors – Dell, HP and Lenovo – are expected to release models with on-cell touch in the first half of this year. The sources said that …

Dell Readies 2015 Education Lineup

by Tom Allen

Dell’s new additions to its education portfolio include a laptop, tablets and a Chromebook. All four products (Chromebook 11; Venue 10 and 10 Pro tablets; and Latitude 11 Education Series laptop) are ‘playground-proof’, with …

IDC: Record Smartphones Cannot Keep European Mobiles From Stagnation

by Tom Allen

Total mobile shipments fell 5.2% YoY in Western Europe throughout 2014 – the second consecutive year that the market has shrunk. Total shipments reached 174.1 million units. Feature phones continued to plummet, with shipments …

Mattel Builds on Cardboard to Return View-Master

by Tom Allen

Mattel’s iconic View-master toy is to be revived this year, thanks to a collaboration with Google. The original used picture reels slotted into the top of the device – now swapped for an Android …