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Acer Holds Leading Position in Multiple Markets

by Vanessa Browning

Acer has achieved excellent sell-through results during the latter months of 2014, according to the latest data by GfK Retail and Technology on PC shipments which represents actual sell through figures. The fourth quarter …

Tags:Acer| Europe| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

LapExpand conceptual laptop expansion

Lapexpand Seeks Funding

by Vanessa Browning

Lapexpand is a project that is seeking crowdfunding on Indiegogo (http://tinyurl.com/ph7asmp), and intending to bring the full desktop experience to mobile computing. The company is developing portable, lightweight monitors (1920 x 1080) that fold …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| USB Monitors| Vol 22 - Issue 04

LG 14Z950 notebook PC

LG Curves AIO and Claims World’s Lightest 14″ Notebook

by Tom Allen

LG has introduced several new products for the Korean market, which will also be launched in South America in Q2. The 29″ 29V950 represents a move into the curved 21:9 space for LG’s AIO PCs. The …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Inventec Look to India for New Fab

by Tom Allen

Inventec may open a new factory in India to supply clients outside of China, chairman Richard Lee has said. Company president KC Huang recently visited India to examine the feasibility of such a move. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Production Capacity| Vol 22 - Issue 04

LDM Product Roundup: Volume 22 No 4

by Tom Allen

Amazon is offering a discount on LG‘s 55″ EC9300 OLED TV (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 30). As part of a promotion around the NFL Superbowl (2nd February), the TV has been lowered from $3,500 …

Tags:Amazon| Convertible PCs| Fujitsu| HDMI| Hisense| Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| OLED TVs| Smart Monitors| Smart Technologies Inc| UltraHD & 4K| Vizio| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Micromax Canvas Hue smartphone

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 3

by Tom Allen

Consumers in India, who might struggle to afford Samsung’s AMOLED smartphones, are now being offered a lower-cost option in the form of Micromax‘s Canvas Hue. The 5″ device has an AMOLED display (1280 x 720), …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Nintendo| Notebooks| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Lenovo Stacks

Too Much from Lenovo….

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo had a huge range of new products at CES, but was not showing publicly on the show floor. Fortunately, we have friends in high places and we were able to meet the company …

Tags:CES 2015| Embedded Pico Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Pcap (Procap)| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 03

LDM Product Roundup: Volume 22 No 3

by Tom Allen

A range of UltraHD products has been added to Crestron‘s DM 3.0 lineup. These include the DM-RMC-4K-SCALER-C (a 60Hz scaler); HDBaseT input (DMC-4K-C/DMC-4K-C-DSP) and HDMI output (DMC-4K-HDO) cards; plenium (DM-CBL-ULTRA-P) and non-plenium (DM-CBL-ULTRA-NP) type CMR HDBaseT …

Tags:Crestron| HDBaseT| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Notebooks| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Quanta December revenues highest in 2014

by Helen Vince

Quanta Computer reported its highest monthly sales for 2014 in December of NT$88.8 billion ($2.8 billion), increasing almost 10% from November but 6% down on December 2013. December’s result brought sales for the fourth …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Quanta| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Quanta Ramping 12″ MacBook Air Production

by Tom Allen

Volume production of a 12″ Macbook Air, which will be launched in Q1’15, has begun at Quanta Computer. The company has also apparently secured orders for the Apple Watch, and intends to hire 30,000 new …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Quanta| Vol 22 - Issue 04

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 4

by Vanessa Browning

Two new touchpanel PCs have been launched by Advantech. The 12.1″ TPC-1251T and 15″ TPC-1551T units feature Advantech’s iDoor modular design; customers can use this to add desired functionality without adding unnecessary hardware and costs. The modules …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Fujitsu| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| sharp| Smartphones| tablets| Touch PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 04