Categoria: HardwareSoftware

Surprise profit

Electronic Arts has surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street by reporting an unexpected first-quarter profit, thanks to increased downloads of its games.

EA’s digital business, where players download digital versions of games, provides the outfit with higher margins than physical disks so an uptick in these sales brings it more cash.

The company forecast revenue of about $ 1.08 billion, including a change in deferred revenue from online-based games. Analysts were expecting $ 1.11 billion.

Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said that EA is releasing its latest FIFA game four days before the September-quarter ends, while it stops accounting for revenue from its digital business about five days before the quarter end.

Jorgensen estimated digital sales from the latest FIFA game would have netted $ 75 million in revenue, which the company will now see in the third quarter.

Strong digital sales, particularly of “FIFA Ultimate Team” on console and “Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes” on mobile, boosted EA’s results in the first quarter which is usually pretty pants.

EA’s adjusted revenue fell 1.6 percent to about $ 682 million in the three months ended June 30. Analysts on average were a revenue of $ 650.7 million.

Adjusted sales from EA’s digital business rose 6.8 percent to about $ 568 million and accounted for 83.3 percent of total revenue.

“IL nuovo Samyang 35mm F1.2 ED AS UMC CS è dedicato alle fotocamere mirrorless con sensore APS-C e Micro Quattro Terzi ed è proposto con baionetta Sony E, Canon M, Fujifilm X e MFT per Olympus e Panasonic”

Estate intensa per Samyang: il marchio coreano ha infatti una roadmap molto fitta che prevede il lancio di nuovi obiettivi a ritmo serrato. Dopo l’ottica cinematografica XEEN 135mm T2.2 (appartenente alla famiglia che di media costa circa $ 2500) è ora la volta di un obiettivo dedicato in prima battuta alla fotogrfia, ma declinato anche in versione cinema. Il nuovo Samyang 35mm F1.2 ED AS UMC CS è dedicato alle fotocamere mirrorless con sensore APS-C e Micro Quattro Terzi ed è proposto con baionetta Sony E, Canon M, Fujifilm X e MFT per Olympus e Panasonic.

Costituito da nove elementi in 7 gruppi utilizza due elementi asferici e il trattamento superficiale si Samyang Ultra Multi Coat. Si tratta di un normale molto luminoso sulle fotocamere APS-C e di un medio tele sulle Micro Quattro Terzi. La versione cine 35mm T1.3 ED AS UMC CS, oltre a riportare la trasmittanza nei dati tecnici offre ghiere per l”integrazione coi sistemi follow focus e la ghiera della regolazione del diaframma priva di scatti. Al momento non è stato annunciato il prezzo.

Trouble just got worse

Troubled mobile phone maker HTC has just found that its woes have become a lot worse.

The latest HTC results, for its second quarter confirm another loss-making quarter for the smartphone and VR headset maker, with the Taiwanese company reporting revenue of$ 598 million for the quarter versus the $ 1.07 billion it made at the same time last year. This means that it has seen a drop of around 44 percent.

HTC reported a loss of $ 133 million in its second quarter, which ended 30 June.  At least it is not as bad as the revenue plunge than the company made in its first quarter when it was 64 per cent down, but it is still pretty grim. .

Revenues were up sequentially in the second quarter due to increasing shipments of its HTC 10 flagship smartphone and the HTC Vive, the company said.

HTC’s smartphone business unit is expected to reach breakeven in the third quarter of 2016 as the company will push sales of the HTC 10 to more markets, HTC said.

The company has been restructuring. It has diversified its business via a wearable and fitness tech partnership with Under Armor, and had a successful move into VR in collaboration with Valve. It’s certainly still early days for VR, but HTC is crediting the Vive VR rig with giving a boost to its brand and contributing to a 27 percent rise in revenues over Q1 this year.

The company is also touting “worldwide interest” and “sales momentum” for its HTC 10 smartphone, but isn’t breaking out any actual sales figures Still it is not clear how long HTC can continue to survive with results like this.