Vol 21 – Issue 44 – Page 9

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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Barco Clarifies Uniti Design Brief

by Raverstead

We recently reported on the new Coronis Uniti diagnostic monitor from Barco (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42). The monitor is a colour unit that has high resolution (4200 x 2800) and very high …

Fujitsu Result 31/10/2014

by Raverstead

Fujitsu Limited reported a second quarter net profit of ¥17.2 billion ($150.1 million), ¥6.5 billion ($56.7 million) lower than the second quarter of last year. Turnover for the quarter was ¥1.1 trillion ($9.6 billion), …

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NEC Calibrates With Light Illusion

by Raverstead

NEC Display Solutions of America has entered into a collaboration with UK-based Light Illusion. The aim of the work is to enable native calibration for NEC’s colour-critical monitors, through the Lightspace CMS display calibration …

SEL Exceeds 1,000ppi With OLED

by Raverstead

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory showed two new OLED displays at Display Innovations 2014 in Japan last month. The first was a 2.8″ colour unit with 2560 x 1440 resolution – 1,049ppi! A c-axis aligned oxide …

uBeam Secures $10 Million Funding

by Raverstead

Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, …

KPN Loses DTT Subscribers

by Raverstead

KPN’s DTT platform in the Netherlands, Digitenne, is believed to have dropped below 500,000 subscribers. In KPN’s recent results, the Digitenne figure came under the heading ‘Other TV homes’ (508,000), which also included analogue …

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Ziggo Maintains Market Share

by Raverstead

Dutch cable provider Ziggo had a market share of 62.5% in Q3’13. While the company’s total TV customers dropped by 18,000, to 2.76 million, the total homes passed in the Netherlands also fell. Because …

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Crocus Senses Flexing

by Raverstead

Crocus Technology, based in Switzerland, has developed a sensor solution for flexible displays, built on its Magnetic Logic Unit (MLU) technology. MLU is a CMOS-based architecture using magnetic fields. The new solution can detect …

BenQ Prompts Workers to Take a Break

by Raverstead

The BL2700HT 27″ LCD monitor from BenQ is suited for office use. As well as flicker-free and low blue light technologies, the unit will remind users to take a break at predefined intervals, through …

G Flex Mini’ Spotted in Factory Visit

by Raverstead

A journalist from Israeli website YNet recently visited LG’s phone factory in Korea, and appears to have spotted an unannounced model. The reporter wrote that it “seems like the G Flex…only smaller”. LG did …

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NEC Result 05/11/2014

by Raverstead

NEC Corporation returned to profit in the second quarter of its current fiscal year, reporting a net profit of ¥22.6 billion ($196.6 million), which compares with a net loss in the same period a …

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