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Nokia Want a Piece of the Smartphone ‘Cake’

by Isaac Oburu

Nokia has its eyes set on the mobile market again, with two Android 7.0 devices. Sources told NokiaPowerUser that the could be waterproof, with IP68 certification. They will both feature a metal chassis, with …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 29

by Milos Pavlovic

Andromium‘s Superbook (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 19) – the laptop ‘shell’ powered by a smartphone – is now live on Kickstarter. Prices start at $85. It was funded within 10 minutes, …

Notebook Rebound Boosted EMEA PC Shipments

by Tom Allen

PC shipments in EMEA were slightly above expectations in Q2’16, says IDC, at 16.1 million units shipped – although this still represented a 4.7% YoY fall. Western Europe stabilised at -0.8%, while CEE and …

Flex Result 22/07/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Flex reported Q1 2016 net profit of $106 million. Turnover was reported at $5.9 billion. Gross margin improved 60 basis points YoY.

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Sony Goes Beyond Premium

by Tom Allen

Sony has announced a new series of premium LCD TVs known as XBR-Z: these are positioned above the company’s current flagship models in the X series, such as the X930D. The focus for these …

Canon Adds New Tech to XEED Series

by Tom Allen

Canon’s newest XEED-brand LCoS projector is a short-throw model for professional users, called the 4K501ST. Designed as an update to the 4K500ST (Canon Claims World’s Lightest DCI Projector), the new projector features HDMI 2.0 …

Rogers TV Subscribers Down in Q2

by Isaac Oburu

Rogers Communications, a Canadian communications and media company has announced its operating results. Rogers recorded a drop in total TV subscribers to 23,000 in Q2’16 from 32,000 in Q2’15.

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AT&T Records 25 Million Subscribers in Q2

by Isaac Oburu

AT&T recorded a drop of 49,000 total video subscribers in Q2’16. Satelite subscribers rose to 342,000 in the same quarter. U-verse TV subscribers declined 391,000. Total AT&T video subscribers for the quarter were 25.3 …

Wireless Charging Era Dawns for Mobile

by Steve Sechrist

Yes, smartphones are a major part of our lives, and God knows how we got along without them in the past. But like a new relationship, it’s the unknown baggage that can often sabotage …

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Ray Tracing Just Became Faster, Easier and Less Complex

by Tom Allen

A new technique, developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has increased the speed of rendering some particularly tricky graphics. Rendering specular highlights, or glints (such as reflections from uneven …

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Nanoco and Wah Hong in QD Agreement

by Isaac Oburu

Nanoco Group has signed a seven-year supply and licensing agreement with Wah Hong Industrial Corporation to market cadmium-free quantum dots. The agreement will see Nanoco supplying its cadmium-free quantum dot resin, which Wah Hong …

New Video Wall Sculpture for Caviar House at Heathrow T5

by Isaac Oburu

A video wall, dubbed ‘Submergence’, has been developed by MVS Audio Visual for the Caviar House and Prunier outlet in Heathrow’s T5. The 7×2 wall uses 55″ LCD displays from LG and Datapath’s x4 …