With streaming media giants such as Netflix and HBO entering the Nordic market, Sweden's public broadcasting company felt pressure and started to charge broadcasting service fee for smartphone and tablet users. In Sweden, TV users must ...
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Leveraging an asset—a Hollywood movie studio—that competitors like LG and Samsung must envy, Sony is planning a summer launch of a new distribution system that will allow Ultra HD TV owners to download 4K movies to a new ...
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While they may lack the pure wow factor engendered by a gigantic 84-inch screen, smaller higher-resolution Ultra HD TVs are on the way from Sony, slated to arrive this April or May. Exact pricing hasn't yet been announced, though they're ...
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For years now, I dreamed of a mobile device with a huge screen, but in a compact form factor. And one way to get there is using a flexible display. Imagine curling up your iPhone or Android device and putting in your pocket, or donning ...
TUPELO, Miss. --- Maryland retailer Family Furniture won the Tupelo Furniture Market's National Buyer Appreciation Award last night, television station WTVA reports. The company is based in Mount Rainier, Md., and does business in the ...
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“The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” an article by Michael Moss in the New York Times, lights up a lot of dark corners of the junk food industry and offers some genuinely fascinating angles on how Dr. Pepper, ...
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Georgia-Pacific, the maker of Brawny paper towels, announces the launch of a national campaign and partnership with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) to help support and raise awareness of the needs of injured service members and their families ...
In recent years, the global market share of the Japanese television industry fell significantly, while Korean and Chinese enterprises were achieving a catch-up. In 2012, China's color TV industry surpassed Japan. South Korea's Samsung ...
Tags: China, color TV industry, Japan
Broadcast and pro audio technology specialists HHB Communications is releasing the HHB 2013 Catalogue at the BVE London show on Stand D62A. With technical and sales information on over 2,000 professional audio products from the world's ...
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Do you remember what it was like before there was at least one television in every home? How did we spend our spare time? Let me assist you in remembering the good old days. There were beautiful summer evenings, drinking a glass of iced ...
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US dairy firm Land O'Lakes has booked an increase in full-year profit, boosted by initiatives to build its value-added, branded business. In the 12 month period, net earnings totalled US$241m, a 31% increase on the prior year period. ...
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HP has sold some of its webOS mobile operating system rights to LG Electronics, which will use the platform in it smart television sets. LG has agreed to acquire the source code, webOS engineering team and other assets from HP, in a deal ...
Ukraine may quit the European Energy Community in reaction to its lack of support for the country in ongoing natural gas disputes with Russia, President Viktor Yanukovych said Friday. The warning comes two weeks after Yanukovych said ...
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Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 2/25/2013 10:09:01 AM The producers of the In Focus educational TV program starring Martin Sheen have announced that they will spotlight a new trend taking hold across America's ...
UK - Entec, one of the UK's longest established lighting and sound companies, has put its faith in Lake after adding a number of LM 44 digital audio system processors to its extensive inventory. The company works across a huge diversity ...
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