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Date and Location Announced for DTG Summit 2018

by Andrew Fenn

This year’s DTG Summit will take place on Thursday 10th May at the 1 Wimpole Street Conference Venue and Meeting Rooms in Central London. The event will overlap with the TV Connect exhibition, which …

The Smartphone Market at an Inflection Point

by Bob Raikes

We’ve been trying to clear the decks, finalising some bits and pieces from CES, getting the BETT report done and trying to get ahead for ISE next week. This is one of our biggest …

Microsoft Boosts Surface PC Range

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has released a lower cost version of its Surface Pro notebook which has a Core M3 processor and costs $799, rather than the Core i5 model that costs $999. The base model has …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is Stepping Down

by Bob Raikes

Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai is stepping down as Sony’s CEO in April and will be replaced by Kenichiro Yoshida, the company’s chief financial officer who has long been seen as Hirai’s right-hand man. Hirai has …

Apple Clarifies Q4 with Earnings Call

by Bob Raikes

In its earnings call, Apple’s Tim Cook said that the company has now reached an installed base of 1.3 billion devices, an all-time high level over a range of its products, up 30% in …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Belfast Team Develops Bright Green QDs

by Bob Raikes

A research team at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, working with the ETH in Zurich, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Florida State University) and the National Taiwan University of Science and …

Papercast Launches Solar-Powered Bus Stop Displays in Israel

by Andrew Fenn

Projective, a technology provider for public transport operators, has deployed Papercast solar-powered e-paper bus stop displays for the Jerusalem Transportation Master Plan Team (JTMT) passenger information system upgrade in Israel. The multi-language e-paper displays, …

IDC: One-Third of Feature Phone Users in India Want to Upgrade to a Smartphone

by Andrew Fenn

According to IDC’s Smartphone Consumer Pulse research study on mobile phone consumer trends in India, one out of three feature phone users would like to buy a data-enabled phone in the next year. With …

Tags:India| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Alphabet Result 1/02/2018

by Vijaya

Alphabet announced fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 results. Revenue was $32.3 billion, up 24% year on year compared to $26.1 billion reported in Q4 of 2016. Google segment revenue was $31.9 billion in …

Tags:Financial Data| Google| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

IDC: Apple Overtakes Samsung in Global Smartphone Market

by Andrew Fenn

A slower-than-expected 2017 holiday quarter closed out the year bringing minimal change to the worldwide smartphone market when compared to 2016. According to preliminary data from IDC, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 403.5 …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Qualcomm Result 1/02/2018

by Vijaya

Qualcomm Inc. reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2018. Q1 revenue was $6.1 billion, up 1% compared to $6.0 billion reported in Q1 of 2017. Qualcomm didn’t record any QTL (Qualcomm …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 05

MediaTek Predicts 20% Revenue Decrease in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

MediaTek has announced it will expect a 20% drop in revenue in the first quarter of 2018, describing the current smartphone market in China as “sluggish”. The company projected first-quarter revenue of NT$48.3 billion …