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Acer Wins VR Contract

by Yvette Raikes

Acer is supplying its Star VR HMD to a virtual reality theme park in Dubai, UAE. Construction of the park is expected to be finished by the end of this year or in early …

Roku Plans To Raise Funds Through IPO

by Yvette Raikes

Streaming company Roku is planning to raise $100 million with an IPO.At the end of June it had 15.1 million active accounts and its users streamed over 6.7 billion hours in the first half …

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Voice Control and China at IFA

by Bob Raikes

Well, I’d like to pretend that this editorial was carefully planned and thought through, but the reality is that it’s being hammered out in my hotel room as we desperately try to get both …

IFA is an OLED Fest!

by Bob Raikes

We’ve been through a couple of days of press events and a day and a half of the show and there’s a clear pattern. At every TV press event, except those by Samsung and …

Euronics Now Truly in EMEA

by Bob Raikes

The Euronics press event changes every year and this year there was a ‘theatrical’ presentation in German that was intended to highlight the desire of Euronics to be the leader in the Smart Home …

Sony’s 77″ OLED and 4K Projectors Look Good

by Bob Raikes

Sony’s press event was very over-crowded, so we ended up watching it on a stream from the press centre as it wasn’t even going to be possible to get good photos. In TV, the …

Samsung Adds Flat QLED TVs, a Gaming Monitor and Wearables

by Bob Raikes

Samsung had its press event at the Tempdrom – a large venue well away from the Messe and with several thousand attendees including Samsung staff. The theme at the event was ‘Your new normal’. …

LG Short on New TVs, but Plenty to Show!

by Bob Raikes

LG held its press event one day before the show opened and started by launching the V30 smartphone which has been widely previewed by the company. That was the only real topic for the …

Telekom Adds UltraHD to its STB

by Bob Raikes

Deutsche Telekom (DT) is releasing a new STB, the MR401, will support UltraHD and will support direct access to Netflix. The Netflix access will be added to the DT Entertain TV offering. Ultra HD …

Caterpillar Adds Rugged Tablet

by Bob Raikes

Caterpillar is bringing its first rugged tablet to the market, with a list price of €649 (including tax – $640). The rugged tablet, with a Windows 10 operating system and LTE, was specially developed …

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Fox Sports Plans UHD College Football

by Bob Raikes

Fox Sports in the US plans to produce one college football game per week in UltraHD (a total of 13 games) starting on 2nd September and featuring the Maryland Terrapins versus the Texas Longhorns. …

Indian Tablet Market Stable Thanks To Commercial Growth

by Yvette Raikes

Although consumer tablet buying fell 13.8% QoQ and 26.8% YoY in Q2, due to the introduction of the Goods and Service Tax, healthy growth in the commercial sector contributed to a 2.9% rise to …

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