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Euronics Cuts Costs with Press Event

by Bob Raikes

Euronics changed the format of its annual IFA press event this year and ran it at the back of its booth – we suspect that this was a cost saving measure. The company started …

Fitness is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for Wearables

by Bob Raikes

Shipments of wearable devices reached 22.5 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Despite a decline in shipments for one of the largest vendors, the …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 36| Wearables

Automotive Display Panel Shipments to Go Up – needs pic

by Yvette Raikes

Thanks to the greater number of display panels in cars, automotive display panel shipments worldwide will rise from 157 million panels in 2015 to 207 million units in 2019, according to Digitimes Research, giving …

Tags:Automotive| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Smartphone Forecast Drops as Competition Builds

by Steve Sechrist

For the second time in three months market research firm IDC cut its smartphone forecast amid maturing world-wide markets as competitive forces continue to build in the space. New research released this week from …

Q2 Positive for European DTM Market

by Bob Raikes

There was some good news for the Desktop Monitor market in Q2, with sales up 14.0% on Q2 2015, although there was a drop from Q1, which is in line with historic seasonal trends. …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 23 - Issue 33

Xbox OneS Launches 4K Game Console Era

by Steve Sechrist

As part of its global game strategy in a market poised to grow to plus $100 billion by next year, Microsoft is shifting into high gear with the recent Xbox One S game console. …

Tags:Consoles| Game Playing| Market Data| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 33

The Dragon is Awake: Chinese Dominate Mobile Phone Rankings

by Tom Allen

Although smartphone sales are slowing, they still grew 4.3% YoY in Q2’16, to 344 million units, says Gartner in its recent report on the mobile phone market. Total mobile phone sales, including featurephones, were …

PDs in Europe Fit the Seasonal Pattern

by Bob Raikes

Over recent years, the Public Display market in Europe has settled into a clear pattern, with most growth being concentrated in Q4 of one year and Q1 of the next. Q2 in 2016 saw …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Market Data| Vol 23 - Issue 32

Tablet Market Stabilizing as ASPs climb 9 percent in Q2 2016, says Strategy Analytics

by Isaac Oburu

Global Tablet shipments fell 8 percent year-on-year in Q2 2016 to 46.7 million units while average selling prices (ASPs) went the other way, climbing 9 percent during the same period. Consumers and enterprises alike …

Tags:Market Data| tablets

IT Market Growth Shrinks

by Tom Allen

The European IT Observatory (EITO) has published a report on the growth of the European ICT market. Following strong (3% YoY) growth in 2015, EITO expects a slowdown in 2016. Revenues are projected to …

Ex-DisplaySearch and -LG Execs Open New Research Company

by Tom Allen

Wasn’t sure about this one. Delete if you think it’s too much talk about competition – T Ross Young, founder of DisplaySearch (now owned by IHS) and Bob O’Brien, formerly of LG Philips Display …

The Art of Technology Forecasts

by Norbert Hildebrand

When a new technology is introduced through prototypes, demonstrators or even first products, the technology-centric press like the one you are reading right now, soon starts writing about the wonderful new technology and what …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Vol 23 - Issue 24