Vol 22 – Issue 06 – Page 10

TeliaSonera Grows Slowly in Q4

by Tom Allen

TeliaSonera’s Swedish TV subscribers rose 16,000 in Q4’14. 4,000 new customers were added in Finland and 7,000 in Lithuania, while Estonian subscribers were flat.

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Kyocera Result 06/02/2015

by Helen Vince

Kyocera Corporation has announced its third quarter results, posting a net profit of ¥30.3 billion ($258.2 million) on turnover of ¥387.3 billion ($3.3 billion), which compares with a net profit of ¥26.4 billion ($224.9 …

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Microsoft to Invest in Android Startup Cyanogen

by Vanessa Browning

Microsoft is reported to have invested in Cyanogen, a company which offers an alternative Android mobile operating system to Google. According to a blog post in the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft would be a …

Tags:Android| Investment| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Argos Plans Digital Outlets in Sainsbury’s

by Helen Vince

Argos is planning to open 10 pilot digital stores within Sainsbury’s supermarkets across the UK before the summer. The new format stores will provide customers with a choice of over 20,000 non-grocery products, including …

Tags:Argos| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retailers| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Hospital Extends Barco Partnership

by Tom Allen

The Al-Hada Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia, a long-term Barco customer, has extended its display fleet with the addition of a Coronis Fusion 6MP diagnostic screen. Barco’s online MediCal QAWeb management service was also …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06

MediaTek Touches 150Mbps Down

by Tom Allen

Mediatek is building a 64-bit octa-core smartphone chip, as it competes against Qualcomm. The MT6752 will be in smartphones shipping by the end of Q2. All eight cores are based on ARM’s Cortex A53 …

US Commercial Displays Outsell Consumer Units in 2014

by Tom Allen

Sales of large (32″+) FPDs in the USA rose 12% YoY in December, according to PMA Research. The firm gets its data from professional AV dealers and integrators in the USA, serving commercial markets. …

Dell Adds Ingram in Switzerland

by Helen Vince

Dell has expanded its European distributor base and added Ingram Micro as a reseller of its PCs, notebooks, tablets and displays in Switzerland. Ingram Micro already distributes Dell products in Austria, Germany and the …

Toshiba Refreshes Chromebooks With Higher Resolution

by Tom Allen

The second generation of Toshiba’s Chromebooks has been introduced, with two different screen resolutions and up to 11.5 hours of battery life. As Chromebooks, the CB30-B-103 and CB30-B-104 are designed to be used while …

Tags:Chromebooks| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 06

NASA Installs New Clock for New Generation

by Tom Allen

The old seven-bar clock at the Kennedy Space Centre’s Press Site is arguably a part of history, used in many Apollo launches. Last December, the clock became history, as it was too old to …

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Teleplan Identifies Fall in Thrifty Attitudes

by Tom Allen

Teleplan, a company specialising in electronics after-sales, says that British people throw away more than £1.4 billion ($2.1 billion) every year. In a recent survey, 69% of respondents had had one electrical item break …

ISE is Here

by Tom Allen

A multi-touch best practice guide is to be introduced by 3M (8.F300). The guide will include advice from 3M and its European partners, to show where and how touch technology can be used. A media server …