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Acer Still Sees Opportunities in Smartphones

by Tom Allen

At a supply chain conference in January, Acer CEO Jason Chen said that the company will continue to look for business opportunities in the smartphone market. The smartphone business is not profitable for Acer …

Microsoft Announces Surface Hub as a Collaborative Display Tool

by Norbert Hildebrand

Together with the Windows 10 announcement, Microsoft also showed off the Surface Hub – a collaborative display solution. The system is more than just a touch enabled display, as it runs a modified Windows …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Multitouch| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Windows

Microsoft Jumps to Windows 10

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft is still “The Standard” for PC operating systems worldwide, even with all the success of Apple’s OSX and Unix platforms in recent years. Microsoft claims that about 1.5 billion people are using Microsoft …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 5

by Tom Allen

Amazon held a one-day sale of the Fire Phone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25) in the UK last week, cutting the price of the 32GB model to £85 ($130) and the 64GB to £125 …

Inlighten Sets Sail for Windows on Argo Thumb Stick

by Tom Allen

Argo is a digital signage player in a thumb stick form factor, from US-based Inlighten. Said to be the first such player running Windows, Argo users will have access to a range of management …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Windows

Windows Phones Receive Denim Update

by Tom Allen

Microsoft has started to roll out the Lumia Denim update to Windows Phone 8.1 handsets. Denim provides several new and updated features, including an improved version of the Cortana virtual assistant and – for …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Windows

New Price Point Achieved for Lumia Series

by Vanessa Browning

Microsoft showed off a low-cost feature phone at CES (since 2013, the company has made its biggest announcements at its own events), and has now revealed two affordable Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones: the Lumia …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Windows

Windows 7 Moves Towards End Date

by Tom Allen

The beginning of the end is here for Windows 7, which has moved out of ‘Mainstream Mode’ and into a phase known as ‘Extended Support’. The OS will continue to receive bug fixes and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03| Windows

Samsung Combats Android With Windows

by Tom Allen

In a bid to reduce its reliance on Android, Samsung will release several affordable handsets based on Windows Phone 8.1 this year. The news comes from The Korea Times, whose source – a Samsung …

Work On-The-Go With Fujitsu

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu’s Stylistic Q335 is an 8″ Windows tablet for business users. Weighing less than 500g, the tablet is portable and offers a long (9.5-hour) battery life). A quad-core 1.83GHz Intel Atom CPU runs Windows …

Android Spurs MEA Tablet Growth

by Bob Raikes

Tablet sales grew strongly in the MEA region in Q3’14, says IDC, spurred by significant Android shipments. Volume rose 29.6%, to 4.15 million units. Growth was most evident in the consumer segment, which was …

Microsoft Invites to ‘Next Chapter’ of Windows

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft will be holding an event to unveil the ‘next chapter’ of Windows 10 on 21st January. Several executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, will be present at the event (at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, …