Vol 21 - Issue 42

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Buy BenQ, Support Fight Against Cancer

by Super User

BenQ America will donate $10 to Breast Cancer Awareness for every HT1075 projector sold in October. The campaign is part of the ‘BenQ Cares’ programme.

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AOC Adds Action Europe

by Super User

AOC displays are now being offered in Germany and Austria by Action Europe.

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Freesat Approaches 2 Million Mark

by Super User

The UK’s free satellite TV service, Freesat, was available to 1.9 million households at the end of September. 8,000 new subscribers were added in Q3, and 32,000 in the first 9 months of 2014.

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HP Combines Devices in ‘Sprout’

by Super User

Sources have told Re/code that HP will show a new computing device on 29th October, which is called Sprout. According to the sources, the Sprout combines a large flatscreen display with a flat, touch-sensitive …

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Canatu Discusses CNB Films at Motion Conference

by Super User

Canatu’s Bob Senior will discuss the company’s carbon nanobud touch technology at the IHS Touch Gesture Motion Conference. Senior will present his talk on 29th October, during the session ‘Indium Tin Oxide: Is There …

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Texas Instruments Result 21/10/2014

by Super User

Texas Instruments Incorporated achieved a 31% year on year increase in net profit in Q3 to $826 million from $629 million in Q3 of the previous year, while turnover rose 8% to $3.5 billion …

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NTT Plala Provides UltraHD Date

by Super User

NTT Plala, the Japanese telco, will begin UltraHD broadcasting on 27th October.

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Flextronics Hires New CMO

by Super User

Flextronics has appointed Michael Mendenhall to lead the company’s worldwide marketing, branding and communications initiatives. He most recently served as CMO and executive VP for Fusion-io, having previously held the post of senior VP …

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Archos Releases Low-cost Gear VR Competitor

by Super User

French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos VR Glasses. Like the Samsung and Google offerings, Archos’ ‘headset’ is more like …

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Christie Brings Movie Night to Hospital

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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

by Super User

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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