Vol 21 – Issue 44 – Page 2

TSMC Chooses ARM

by Raverstead

For the fifth year in a row, TSMC has bestowed its Partner Award on ARM, for outstanding partner performance.

ZTE Sees Brightstar

by Raverstead

Brightstar 20:20 has been chosen by ZTE as the official distributor for its smartphones and tablets in Spain.

Vienna Station Outfitted With 44m² LED Board

by Raverstead

Beginning full operations at the end of next year, the Vienna Main Station will serve more than 1,100 trains each day. Departures will be displayed on a 21m x 2.1m LED board supplied by …

Actions Semi Builds for Midrange Mainstream Devices

by Raverstead

A quad-core SoC, with many applications areas, has been introduced by Actions Semiconductor. The ATM7059 is primarily designed for mid-tier Android tablets; however, it can also be used in set-top boxes, smart monitors, ultrabooks, …

Asus Wins in Japan

by Raverstead

Seventeen of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion’s Good Design Awards have gone to Asus. Winning products include seven notebooks, two tablets, three desktop PCs, a motherboard, a projector, an LCD monitor, an AIO …

Fraunhofer Investigates Flexible Lighting

by Raverstead

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding an OLED project at Fraunhofer FEP. The R2D2 project will investigate production processes and technologies for manufacturing flexible OLEDs. R2D2 is primarily focused on …

Moving Toward a New User Interface

by Raverstead

Jonathan Josephson of Quantum Interface (Austin, Texas) presented an ambitiously titled Motion Tutorial talk at the 2014 Touch Gesture Motion Conference (October 28-30, Austin, Texas) entitled, History of the World of Interfaces and Interactions …

Samsung Display to Review Management

by Raverstead

Samsung Group’s Future Strategy Office is expected to conduct a managerial review of Samsung Display, which will cover the company’s business plan, strategies and portfolio, to try to establish what can be improved. In …

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UAE Smartphone Market to Top $9.3 Billion

by Raverstead

A report on the smartphone market in the United Arab Emirates is now available at Research and Markets (http://tinyurl.com/lpfyggs). Smartphone demand in the country has risen swiftly over the last five years, especially with …

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HD+ Reaches 1.6 Million Subs

by Raverstead

HD+, the German TV platform, now has almost 1.6 million customers, five years after it was launched. Compared to September 2013, 313,683 new subscribers have joined HD+. An additional 1.3 million viewers are in …

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Vizio Expands South of the Border

by Raverstead

Vizio has entered the Mexican market. The company’s E-series and M-Series TVs are now being sold through Sams’s Club and Walmart Superstore locations.

Apple Warranties Become More Even-Handed

by Raverstead

Analysing Apple data over the last 11 years, 369 Week has concluded that the company is ‘giving its customers a break’. Apple is paying more 369 claims and keeping extended 369 prices steady, resulting …

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