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Apple iPhones Now Available in Armenia and Moldova

by Helen Vince

Asbis has become an official distributor of Apple’s iPhones in Armenia and Moldova. Asbis conducted a series of training workshops for its retail partners across Armenia and Moldova before the iPhones were launched.

Arrow ECS Expands Thin Portfolio

by Helen Vince

Arrow ECS in the Czech Republic has expanded its range of thin computing products with the addition of Igel devices.

Eptimo Adds Peerless-AV

by Helen Vince

In Poland, Eptimo has added digital signage-oriented solutions from Peerless-AV.

Asus Claims 10-Day Smartwatch Battery

by Tom Allen

Asus has shown off a new smartwatch at the Milan Design Week. The Vivowatch puts a greater focus on fitness tracking than Asus’ Zenwatch; the biggest appeal is its battery life, which is said …

Acer’s Q1 Sales Down 21%

by Helen Vince

Acer reported sales for March of NT$24.7 billion ($793.2 million), representing a 19.8% increase from February but down 19.6% year on year. March’s result brought sales in the first quarter to NT$68.1 billion ($2.2 …

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Quanta Rises in March, But Q1 is Down

by Tom Allen

Quanta shipped 4 million notebooks in March, rising 48.1% MoM and 11.1% YoY. The company says that its Q1 shipments were 9.9 million – down 22.7% QoQ and 5.7% YoY. Shipments in April and …

Pegatron Capacity Utilisation Falls

by Tom Allen

Pegatron says that its notebook shipments were up between 30% and 40% MoM in March, to 650,000 – 700,000. Q1 shipments were not so bright, falling 20% QoQ and 20% – 30% YoY, to …

BBC Aims at UltraHD in 2016

by Tom Allen

BBC CTO Matthew Postage has told the Financial Times that the company is likely to start broadcasting UltraHD programmes – and whole channels – in a standardised way next year. The challenge, he said, …

Top TV Providers Add 5.1 Million Subs in Q4

by Tom Allen

Informitv’s Multiscreen Index, of 100 leading pay-TV providers worldwide, shows that these services grew by more than 5.1 million subscribers in Q4’14 (up 1.42%). The top 10 services added more than 5.3 million throughout …

GfK Predicts Significant UltraHD Sales Progress

by Tom Allen

At the recent MIPTV event in France, GfK shared its UltraHD TV sales data. In the 12 months to January 2015, 298,000 sets were sold in the UK; 294,000 in Germany; and 290,000 in …

V-Nova Expands Partnerships

by Tom Allen

Encompass Digital Media has entered a partnership with V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). There are three solutions the partnership aims to deliver: 1) contribution quality video via the internet at a lower …

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Screen Technology Gets More Attention

by Chris Chinnock

RealD used the Technology Summit on Cinema to provide an update on development of its Ultrascreen technology, which also included the first public demo of its new screen technology showing 4k content from an …