Vol 21 – Issue 36 – Page 4

Secret of Hisense’s ULED Tech is Revealed

by Super User

Hisense had taken a new location in hall 6.2 this year, next to new partner Loewe. The company was putting its more prominent stand to good use, and its press conference – the company’s …

Google Preparing for Android One?

by Super User

A launch of Google’s Android One initiative, which aims to unify the fragmented OS in entry-level smartphones, may be approaching. Invitations have been sent to an event in India on 15th September. Google has …

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MEA PC Market Returns to Growth…

by Super User

After seven quarters of year on year declines, the Middle East and Africa PC market returned to growth in Q2, posting an increase in total shipments of 2.2% to 4.5 million units. According to …

Haier’s New TV Will be a Doctor on Your Wall

by Super User

Haier unveiled a range of new products and – as always – concepts for the future. The company has shown wirelessly-powered and thought-controlled TVs in the past; this year, it demonstrated the U9000 modular …

Canada Hands Out Fines in LCD Price Fixing Suit

by Super User

Courts in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia in Canada have secured agreement from five of the major consumer electronics companies involved in the alleged LCD price fixing cartel which took place between 1998 and …

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Loewe Stays On-Course Through Thick and (Very) Thin

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Anyone would agree that Loewe has had a turbulent year, which we are sure the company was happy to see an end to when it was acquired by Stargate Capital GmbH in April (Display …

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Nigeria Details ASO Requirements

by Super User

Nigeria will need about 40 million DTT receivers to successfully move to digital broadcasting, said the company’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). It will also require ‘at least’ NGN60 billion ($368.6 million). Display Daily Comments …

MEA…As Tablets Shift to Tier 2 Vendors

by Super User

There was a 2% fall in tablet shipments in MEA between Q1’14 and Q2’14, according to IDC. As well as the expected fall due to the traditionally slow summer season and Ramadan, shipments were …

Lenovo Gets Tiny

by Super User

Lenovo was a bit frustrated at the show. The company had held a press event on the Thursday, but because of the Intel keynote on Friday, could not announce that new systems used the …

CPT’s August Result Disappoints

by Super User

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a 15.5% drop in sales last month from July, at NT$4.5 billion ($149.8 million), bringing sales from January to August to NT$37.8 billion ($1.2 billion), 1% lower than the …

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Our LCD Will Compete With Plasma, Says Panasonic

by Super User

In previous years, we have done some work for Panasonic before IFA, preparing talks and white papers on new features of their TVs. Not this year, however, so we were looking forward to the …

Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance

by Super User

Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ …