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HP Recalls Batteries Over Fire Risk

by Tom Allen

HP has issued a recall for laptop batteries, supplied in certain models sold worldwide between March 2013 and August 2015. Affected batteries, which have the potential to overheat and catch fire, may also have …

Microsoft’s Surface Membership Offers Instalment Plans

by Tom Allen

After turning Office into a software-as-a-service product, and moving the same way with Windows, Microsoft is now offering its Surface products as ‘hardware-as-a-service’. Businesses can use ‘Surface Membership’, to give it its proper name, …

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Asus Cuts Revenue Forecast

by Tom Allen

Asus’ net consolidated revenues rose 9.5% MoM but fell 5.4% YoY in May, to NT$31.9 billion ($983.1 million). In the first five months of the year, Asus generated NT$180.2 billion ($5.6 billion), up 0.9% …

Everything Optional on HP’s Omen Laptop

by Tom Allen

Omen, HP’s gaming brand, has been refreshed with high-resolution laptops and a 32″ monitor, which reaches a refresh rate of 75Hz. In addition, HP plans to introduce the Omen X platform this summer. There …

Exertis Extends With Medion

by Tom Allen

Exertis is now distributing smartphones, tablets and notebooks from Germany’s Medion in the UK.

KN1 Microsoft Highlights Importance of Display Interaction

by Bob Raikes

The first of the main SID keynotes was given by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft who said that things had changed a lot since he attended his first SID event in 2001. He keeps coming …

BC6 Highly Mobile PC Sales Still Growing

by Bob Raikes

Jason Hsu is from IHS and he looked at what is next in Mobile PC displays. In ‘the old days’, PC replacement was always about performance, with the PC running faster and faster each …

BC5 BOE Differentiates Professional and ‘Link’ Devices

by Bob Raikes

Leono (Chao) Guo is Vice Chief Strategic Marketing Officer for BOE and he talked about the “PC” being an “irreplaceable Link for the post PC era” PCs and smartphones have been enabled by Moore’s …

BC1 Microsoft Aims for ‘Virtuous Circle’ for IT Displays and Suggests ACES

by Bob Raikes

The Business Conference was opened with introductions by Yong-Seog Kim, President of SID and Ben Keen of IHS. Keen introduced IHS which runs the Business Conference and which has acquired seven companies to build …

Acer Switches Gears

by Tom Allen

Acer showed off five new products: three notebooks, an UltraHD monitor and a home cinema projector. Its announcements began with the ‘ultra-affordable’ Switch V 10 and Switch One 10. As the names imply, both …

JPR: Notebooks Dragging Down PC Market

by Tom Allen

Both corporations and users continue to lengthen their PC refresh rates, prolonging the PC market slide, says Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Once again, the gaming market (which uses high-end GPUs) was the stand-out segment …

Acer Awarded With Red Dots

by Tom Allen

Seven Acer products have won Red Dot design awards this year. The winners were chosen from more than 5,000 entries from 57 countries. They were the Aspire S 13 ultrabook; Aspire R 15 hybrid …