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Kaleidescape Signs With Sony

by Tom Allen

Kaleidescape launched a new line of video players known as the Encore series, including its first UltraHD model: the Strato Movie Player. The Strato can play films that are downloaded onto a hard drive; …

Apple Scraps Target Display Mode

by Tom Allen

It has been revealed that Apple has killed off the ability to use its iMacs as external displays for other computers, with the latest models (Retina Now on All Large iMacs). Apple introduced Target …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 42

by Tom Allen

The Blackberry Priv smartphone (Blackberry Looks to Android to Save Falling Share) can now be pre-ordered in the UK, for £465 ($720) SIM-free. The Nexus 5X phone (Google Learns from Competition With Dual Flagships), …

Everdisplay Shows Transparent OLED

by Tom Allen

Everdisplay Optoelectronics showed off a 5.57″ transparent OLED display at an event in Beijing this month. According to OLED-Info, pixel density is 264 ppi (this would be equivalent to 1280 x 720 resolution – …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 42

by Tom Allen

75″ and 85″ TVs have been added to Loewe‘s Reference series (Three Tuners in Loewe’s Premium Reference Series). These are the company’s first large-format UltraHD models. They use direct-LED backlights, and feature an HEVC …

High Inventory Keeps PCs Down Across EMEA

by Tom Allen

EMEA PC shipments fell 23% YoY in Q3’15, to 18.4 million, according to IDC. Ongoing currency fluctuations in several countries, as well as political instability in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, affected the …

SPIL/Foxconn Share Swap Rejected

by Tom Allen

Shareholders at Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) did not support a proposed share-swap deal with Foxconn Electronics. SPIL had intended to increase authorised shares from 3.6 billion units to 5 billion, and increase the limit …

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AMD Result 10/15/2015

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

AMD saw its sequential QoQ net loss widen to $197 million, compared to a net profit of $17 million YoY, in spite of a turnover increase of 13% QoQ to $1.06 billion from $942 …

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Coolpad Takes on Videocon

by Tom Allen

Mumbai-based Videocon Industries has secured a contract to produce 500,000 handsets for Coolpad India – a subsidiary of China’s Coolpad. Production will take place in Q1 of the next fiscal year, at Videocon’s Aurangabad …

Apple Discusses Streaming With CBS

by Tom Allen

Les Moonves, president of CBS, has told Bloomberg that Apple is “having conversations with everyone about doing their own streaming services”, adding that CBS has been part of those conversations.

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EU Clears Intel’s Altera Acquisition

by Tom Allen

The European Commission has given the green light to Intel proposed acquisition of Altera (Intel, Samsung Rumoured to Be on Acquisition Trail). It is the EC’s belief that the combined entity will continue to …

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ITRI Surpasses 85% Flexible Yields

by Tom Allen

Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has passed 85% yields for its flexible electronics, according to domestic sources. These include screens, touch modules and electrode films.