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Sony to Cut TV and Smartphone for Gaming and Imaging

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Sony plans to cut its TV and smartphone portfolios over the next three years. The move will be made to cut costs, with the company looking to the Playstation and image sensor businesses instead. …

Third Platform Will Dominate ICT Growth in 2015

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We recently ‘attended’ a webinar by IDC, covering the company’s prediction for the ‘third platform’. The third platform consists of 21st century technologies such as big data, mobile, the cloud and the internet of …

UAE Smartphone Market to Top $9.3 Billion

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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 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Wearable Market to Reach 100M by 2018

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Market Intelligence – The wearable market is forecast to reach around 108M devices by 2018 with growth following the doubling from just under 20M devices in 2014 to over 40M next year and with …

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ZTE Sees Brightstar

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Brightstar 20:20 has been chosen by ZTE as the official distributor for its smartphones and tablets in Spain.

KPN Loses DTT Subscribers

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KPN’s DTT platform in the Netherlands, Digitenne, is believed to have dropped below 500,000 subscribers. In KPN’s recent results, the Digitenne figure came under the heading ‘Other TV homes’ (508,000), which also included analogue …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Terrestrial (DTT)| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Swisscom Launches SVOD Service

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Switzerland’s Swisscom has launched a rival SVOD service to Netflix called Teleclub Play. The service offers films, TV shows, documentaries, sports and childrens’ programming for CHF12.90 ($13.20) a month. Around 5,000 titles are currently …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Switzerland| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 48

ASO Set for January in Namibia

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Namibian public broadcaster NBC will turn off analogue broadcasts on 31st January next year. The date represents a slight delay to the original date (15th December) after an appeal to ensure that enough decoders …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 21 - Issue 49

DTT Hits Three Year Delay in Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan will not introduce DTT services next year, as originally planned. Instead the roll-out has been postponed until 2018, due to technical issues, according to local media.

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Kazakhstan| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48

JCDecaux and Estée Lauder Paint Paris Red

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Estée Lauder and JCDecaux worked together on a signage campaign in Paris recently. Passers-by could play a slot machine-style game on interactive screens, installed at three bus shelters in the city, to win lipsticks …

Tags:Digital Signage| France| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Pulse Laser Creates Mid-Air Holograms

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Aerial Burton, a Japanese company, has developed a way to show holograms in mid-air, without needing a surface (like smoke or water vapour) to reflect light. Moving 3D images are created by combining a …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Thomson Shows HD Broadcast on Single MUX

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Thomson Video Networks has tested the broadcast of five HD channels from a single 24.8Mbps multiplex, in France. The country currently uses three multiplexes for HD broadcast. Thomson used its ViBE EM4000 HD/SD encoder …