Vol 21 – Issue 34 – Page 7

DisplaySearch: Q2 UltraHD Shipments Beat All of 2013

by Super User

More UltraHD TV sets were shipped in Q2’14 than throughout all of 2013, says NPD DisplaySearch: 2.1 million, compared to 1.6 million. Most brands introduced their 2014 UltraHD TVs at this time, pushing the …

Hitachi Europe Names New Managing Director

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Hitachi Europe has named Kazuo Abe as its new managing director. He succeeds Kiyoshi Yamamoto who has been appointed senior project manager, Urban & Energy Solutions Division, Infrastructure Systems Company, Infrastructure Systems Group in …

Loewe to Keep Manufacturing in Germany

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Loewe has announced that it now intends to maintain its manufacturing base in Germany, having signed a strategic deal last year with Hisense to produce the major hardware components of its products in China. …

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Windows 9 Will Ditch Metro

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Russian tipster Wzor has said that the enterprise version of Windows 9 will be released without the Metro (tile-based) UI. The source also said that Windows 9 would support a 3D mode and Windows …

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DTT Funding Increase Proposed in Russia

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Lenta, a Russian newspaper, has said that the Ministry of Communications has proposed allocating more money to develop broadcasting in the country. An additional RUB26 billion ($720 million) has been proposed, taking the total …

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DOOH Revenues and Exposure Continue to Climb

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The seventh edition of PQ Media’s (PQM) annual Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast shows that ‘influential’ markets stuttered last year. Both key and emerging regions were hit with debt issues, asset bubbles and political …

Leader Appoints Market Development Manager, Europe

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Leader Instruments has appointed Koichi Fukugawa as market development manager for Europe. His principal responsibility will be to work with regional development manager Richard Heath in expanding Leader’s presence in Europe and to strengthen …

Qualcomm Facing EC Antitrust Probe

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A Reuters report suggests that Qualcomm could be facing an investigation by the European Commission into an allegation of anti-competitive behaviour made by a subsidiary of Nvidia four years ago. British firm Icera was …

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Innolux Faces Loading Rate Shortfall

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There is a gap of 20% between Innolux’s notebook panel supply and market demand, president JC Wang said at Touch Taiwan. The company expects to see 1% – 2% notebook panel shipment growth in …

Microsoft Competes With Chromecast

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Windows Phone Daily has uncovered an FCC filing detailing a Chromecast-like dongle for Windows Phone smartphones. The ‘Microsoft HD-10’ possesses WiFi, HDMI and USB connectivity. It also supports Miracast (used for Windows Phone 8.1’s …

Falling July Panel Shipments Indicate Slowing Demand

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37.7 million m² of large (9.1″+) TFT panel were shipped in Q2, NPD DisplaySearch said recently (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 33). Now, the firm has released a report showing that unit shipments reached …

LG Germany Hires ex-Sony Head

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Martin Winkler, who left his job as head of Sony Germany’s business in February (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 6), has been appointed senior VP of LG Electronics’ consumer business in Germany.