Vol 22 – Issue 06 – Page 7

Microsoft Developing Snapdragon 810 Handset

by Tom Allen

Microsoft is working on a new Windows Phone unit, which will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor. Juha Kokkonen, general manager for portfolio and product management at Microsoft, confirmed the news, but no other …

Q4 Marked First Ever Tablet Decline, Says IDC

by Tom Allen

Q4’14 saw tablet shipments fall for the first time since the market became mainstream in 2010, says IDC. Overall shipments of tablets and hybrids reached 76.1 million units, a 3.2% YoY decline. However, full-year …

Flextronics Result 06/02/2015

by Helen Vince

Flextronics’ net profit in the third quarter improved to $153 million from $145 million a year earlier, though turnover was slightly lower at $7 billion from $7.2 billion. For the year to date, Flextronics …

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Mitsubishi Result 05/02/2015

by Helen Vince

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation reported a 53% year on year increase in net profit in the first nine months of the year of ¥145.6 billion ($1.2 billion) on turnover of ¥2.9 trillion ($24.6 billion), which …

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Cable and IPTV Rule Hungary

by Tom Allen

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that there were 3.4 million pay-TV subscribers in the country at the end of 2014. More than 2 million received cable or IPTV services, 55% of whom were digital. …

Daktronics Prepares Massive Halo Board

by Tom Allen

A circular LED video display will be built in a new stadium in Atlanta by Daktronics. The display will measure more than 5,900m²; more than five stories high and three times as large as the …

Watching the Super Bowl – Everywhere

by Aldo Cugnini

Now that the “big game” is over, not without its last-minute drama – a few notes here on how the experience was consumed both inside and outside the University of Phoenix Stadium. To those …

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Deluxe Steps Up Role in 4K-UHD Delivery Ecosystem

by Chris Chinnock

HD content today is delivered to a dizzying array of devices in a multitude of formats. While we are not there yet for the delivery of UHD-4k content, many of the same technologies and …

Barco Finalises Defense & Aerospace Unit Sale to Esterline

by Helen Vince

Barco has finalised the sale of its Defense & Aerospace division to Esterline in the US (Barco to Sell Defense & Aerospace Division to US-based Esterline). As a result, all employees in the division …

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Eye Expands DOOH at Newcastle

by Tom Allen

Eye Airports is installing new high-res advertising screens in Newcastle International Airport. The Initial rollout is of two 70″ LCD units with 1920 x 1080 resolution; the installation was managed by Eye Airports’ own …

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MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 6

by Tom Allen

A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia and supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, …

Toshiba Switches Distributors

by Helen Vince

Toshiba has replaced its distributor for notebooks and tablets in Romania, MB Distribution, with Asbus. The company’s LED TV sets will carry on being offered in the region by Skin Media.