Vol 23 – Issue 44 – Page 5

JCDecaux Result 07/11/2016

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

JCDecaux posted FY16 Q3 adjusted group sales of €792.7 mn ($885.4 mn), up 3.8% from €764.0 mn ($849.6 mn) in FY15 Q3. The Q3 organic sale growth rate was 1.5%, in line with the …

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HannStar Results 04/11/2016

by Bob Raikes

HannStar Display announced Q3 FY16 consolidated sales of NT$6.96 bn ($220.6 mn) and a net profit of NT$2.35 bn ($74.5 mn) resulting in a very healthy net profit margin of 34%. These results marked …

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Virgin Rumoured to be Ready for UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Virgin Media (now owned by Liberty Media) is rumoured to be ready release a new ‘V6’ Tivo box with UltraHD support, as Virgin has invited the press to attend an event on the 30th …

Bell Fibe TV First Canadian TV Service on Apple TV

by Bob Raikes

Apple has made Fibe TV available on Apple TV in Canada. This allows access to 450 channels live or on demand. Bell in Canade, which runs the service, is also selling the Apple TV …

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Charter Video Subs down 47,000 in Q3

by Bob Raikes

US cable provider, Charter Communications said that its network reached 49.0 million homes and served 25.9 million residential and SMB customers, up by 245,000 on the same period last year. Residential video customers decreased …

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Lowe’s Vision Supports AR

by Bob Raikes

In the US, home improvement retailer, Lowe’s has developed an app called Lowe’s Vision which uses Tango, from Google, which adds computer vision to smartphones to enable augmented reality experiences. Using the app and …

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Ericsson Highlights Switch to Mobile Viewing

by Bob Raikes

Ericsson has released the 2016 version of its ConsumerLab report, a comprehensive survey of 30,000 online and 24 in-depth interviews across 24 countries that the company has published and made freely available. Quite a …

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Customers Loyal to Branded Tablets

by Bob Raikes

US market researcher, J.D. Power has said that tablet buyers are less likely to comparison shop where their current product has a strong brand image. J.D. Power has studied customer satisfaction with tablets across …

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Q-Vio Rotates Mobile Displays for Instruments

by Bob Raikes

Q-Vio of San Diego (where it has a Class 1000 clean room) has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first and only commercially available HDMI to MIPI and LVDS to MIPI Converter/Rotator …

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U.S. DoE Awards VR Prize

by Bob Raikes

The U.S. Department of Education is launching EdSim Challenge, a competition to design educational simulations in virtual and augmented reality with a cash prize pool of $680,000 and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, …

MIT Spin-off and Visionect Collaborate

by Bob Raikes

Visionect has collaborated with Soofa, a spin-off from the MIT Media lab, to create a solar-power e-Paper display that provides real-time information on local events and City services at Boston’s pedestrian epicenter, Samuel Adams …

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Telcos to take >50% of WE and Latam Pay TV

by Bob Raikes

Analyst, Ovum, has put out a couple of reports recently. In one, quoted by Digital TV Europe, the conclusion is that telcos will control half of all pay TV in Western Europe and Latin …