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Epeat Hosting Sustainable Mobile Phone Webinar

by Andrew Fenn

Sustainable electronics firm Epeat will be running a webinar on Tuesday 7th November at 11am PST. According to the press release, the webinar will cover: How the EPEAT ecolabel works EPEAT’s environmental criteria How …

Amazon Adds Augmented Reality to iOS App

by Andrew Fenn

Amazon has added an augmented reality function its iOS app. AR View allows customers to visualise how “thousands” of items will look in their own home. The feature can be accessed by pressing the …

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Panasonic Gains Sales From Automotive Business

by Yvette Raikes

Panasonic Corporation posted Q2 net profits of ¥70.1 billion ($614 million), down 33% from ¥104.3 billion ($914 million) this time last year, on sales of ¥1.99 trillion ($17.5 billion), up 13% from ¥1.77 trillion …

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Apple and Samsung Widen Brand Lead in US

by Andrew Fenn

Parks Associates have released new research, revealing that Apple and Samsung have widened their brand lead over LG and Motorola in the US. LG now has a 9% brand share, lagging behind Samsung on …

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MDM Vol 24 #41 Round-up

by Bob Raikes

BLU, which claims to be the largest supplier of unlocked smartphones in the US, has done a deal with Sprint and launched the 5.2″ HD (1280 x 720) IPS smartphone. The IPS LCD display …

Mostly Positive Reception for the iPhone X

by Andrew Fenn

More reviews of the iPhone X are coming through, and the response is largely positive, with the new handset being called “the best smartphone you can buy”, “polished, tight and clean” and “the future …

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Flex Sees Solid Growth

by Yvette Raikes

Flex reported Q2 net profits of $205 million, compared with losses for the same quarter last time of $2.5 million, on revenue which rose 4% to $6.3 billion from $6.0 billion. For the first …

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Celestica Keeps to Its Strategy

by Yvette Raikes

Celestica Inc.recorded Q3 net profits of $33.4 million, down from $53.6 million a year earlier, on revenue which slipped 2% to $1.53 billion from $1.55 billion. For the nine months profits fell to $132.6 …

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AUO Sales Up Despite Declining Panel Prices

by Yvette Raikes

AU Optronics posted Q3 net profits of NT$8.2 billion ($273 million), a rise of 78% YoY from NT$4.6 billion ($153 million), on turnover which went up 1.6% to NT$87.4 billion ($2.9 billion) from NT$86.0 …

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OLED TV Gives LG Electronics Big Profits

by Yvette Raikes

LG Electronics reported Q3 net profits of KRW336.1 billion ($303 million), compared with losses for the same period last year of KRW81.5 billion ($73 million), on record Q3 revenue of KRW15.2 trillion ($13.7 billion), …

LG Display Adds Some Detail in Earnings Call

by Bob Raikes

In its earnings call, LG Display said that it has additional capacity for OLED panels for TV from Q3 and that it will increase production in Q4. At the moment, 65% of OLED TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Instrument Systems to Show Production Testing Gear

by Bob Raikes

Instrument Systems plans to show a spectrally optimised LumiTop 2700 imaging colorimeter which is a combination of spectroradiometer and RGB camera at the Productronica show in Munich in a couple of weeks. The system …

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