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Kyocera Result 26/04/2018

by Vijaya

Kyocera Corporation announced its fourth quarter and full year consolidated financial results for the year ended March 31, 2018. Net sales for Q4 FY18 were ¥432.02 billion ($3.91 billion), an increase of 5.9%, compared …

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Microsoft Surface Hub 2 is Radically Different from Hub

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has announced a new version of its 50.5″ Surface Hub, the Surface Hub 2 which is quite different from the previous version and is more like the Samsung Flip. It is smaller and …

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H & M Tests Voice Interactive Mirror

by Bob Raikes

Hat tip to Invidis for pointing out that Swedish company, Visualart, has developed an interactive mirror display for the H&M fashion brand that uses voice and face recognition for control, eliminating one of the …

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IDC: India PC Market Starts on a Positive Note in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

According to IDC, the India traditional PC shipments for the first quarter of 2018 stood at 2.35 million units, with a 9.9% decline quarter-on-quarter and 8.2% growth over the same period last year. The …

Packing Them In

by Pete Putman

Compression has become an integral part of our world. We compress video and audio. We compress color resolution to save luminance detail. We compress photos to send over the Internet. We compress digital cinema …

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Korean LCD Equipment Firms Relying on Chinese Exports in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

In general, Korean LCD equipment makers saw healthy revenues in 2017, according to Digitimes Research, thanks in part to a record level of export shipments to China — over 50% of the country’s total …

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Falling LCD Panel Prices Could Lead to Production Cuts

by Andrew Fenn

Industry sources have indicated to Digitimes that falling prices of LCD TV panels could lead to production cuts. They highlighted, for instance, that many companies have cut the price of their 32″ open cell …

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Netflix Subscribers to Grow 82% Between 2017 and 2023

by Andrew Fenn

Digital TV Research forecasts that Netflix will have 201 million streaming subscribers by 2023, up by 82% from 111 million at the end of 2017. About 28 million subscribers will be added in 2018, …

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Amazon Dominates US Direct-to-Consumer TV Network Subscriptions

by Andrew Fenn

New research from The Diffusion Group finds that Amazon Prime Channels accounts for more than half of all direct-to-consumer subscriptions. Its dominance is especially prominent among premium DTC apps including HBO, Showtime and Starz. …

TPK Result 03/05/2018

by Vijaya

TPK Holding Co. announced its consolidated financial results for the first quarter 2018 with net revenues of NT$20.85 billion ($697 million), a decrease of 2.6%, compared to NT$21.41 billion ($716 million) in Q1 2017. …

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ANTVR Mix VR/AR Hybrid Headset Fully Funded in Eight Hours

by Andrew Fenn

AntVR, a VR company based in Beijing, China, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its new hybrid VR/AR headset, called AntVR Mix. Zhu Lee, from the company’s software department, has confirmed that the …

Macroblock Wins Samsung Business, Optimistic on microLED

by Bob Raikes

Macroblock is reckoned to be the biggest supplier of LED driver chips for video displays (and the second largest maker of all LED drivers) and is based in Taiwan. The LEDInside blog reports that …