Vol 21 - Issue 42

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Christie Brings Movie Night to Hospital

by Super User

Christie has donated the components of a small cinema to the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in California. The cinema is intended to show films to children too ill to travel outside of …

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Copaco Adds LG Monitors

by Super User

Copaco in France is now distributing monitors from LG.

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Gartner: SVoD Holds Strong Growth Potential

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Pay-TV is the largest segment of the overall consumer video services market, representing 96.3% of spending this year. Gartner expects this to fall to 94.2% by 2018, while subscription VoD (SVoD) services will grow. …

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Koreans Plan CES Launch for Cadmium-Free QD TVs

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Cadmium-free quantum dot (QD) TVs will be introduced by Samsung next year, claims the Korea Times. The source quotes an unnamed official at Samsung. Samsung will apparently receive the QDs from Dow Chemical, which …

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LG Donates Smartphones to Help Fight Ebola

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2,000 smartphones are to be contributed to the UN, for use in combating the ebola outbreak in West Africa, by LG. The phones will be provided to UN healthcare and other key personnel in …

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TSMC Result 20/10/2014

by Super User

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) announced a net profit of NT$76.3 billion ($2.5 billion) on turnover of NT$209 billion ($6.8 billion) for the third quarter of the year, which represented a 28.6% year on year …

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Test for UltraHD Compatibility, Without an UltraHD Display

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A new UltraHD benchmark called Fire Strike Ultra has been developed by Futuremark. Users can test their system for UltraHD compatibility, even if they don’t have a high-resolution display. UltraHD content is rendered internally; …

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Microsoft Germany Names New CEO

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Microsoft has named Alastair Bruce as the new CEO of Microsoft Germany. Bruce replaces Thomas Schroder, who is leaving the company to join mobile operator Vodafone.

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Garmin Chooses Futaba for Wearable

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Garmin has introduced a new fitness tracker and notification display called the Vivosmart. It is a wrist-worn device with a 1.4″ curved passive OLED from Futaba, with 128 x 16 resolution (the same as …

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