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Monday 23 November 2009
PVI EPD production in full swing for year-end shopping, says chairman
Prime View International (PVI) is gearing up its EPD shipments to clients for the year-end shopping season, company chairman Scott Liu has said, amid reports that two of its major...
Monday 23 November 2009
Major price cuts for e-book readers unlikely in 2010, says PVI chairman
Prices of e-book readers are unlikely to drop sharply to as low as US$100 in 2010, as the market has just started to take off, and there is little need for vendors to resort to price...
Thursday 19 November 2009
PVI chairman expects e-book reader market to more than double in 2010
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) chairman Scott Liu has forecast that the global e-book reader market will more than double in 2010, compared to...
Wednesday 18 November 2009
BenQ debuts own-brand e-book reader, aims at global sales of 300,000 units in 2010
BenQ has introduced its own-brand e-book reader, the nReader, and plan to launch it together with its online e-book trading platform in Taiwan in January 2010 and then in Japan and...
Thursday 12 November 2009
CPT to offer 3D, multi-touch and EPD panels, says president
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) plans to broaden its product lines and will start shipping 3D, multi-touch and EPD (electrophoretic display) panels as early as the end of 2009, according...
Thursday 12 November 2009
Network equipment maker Netronix expanding e-book reader production lines
Taiwan-based network equipment maker Netronix will begin to expand its production lines for e-book readers at the end of 2009 instead of the first quarter of 2010 as originally planned...
Wednesday 11 November 2009
E-readers will take off for holiday shoppers in 2010, says Gartner
This year is likely to be remembered as a watershed in the evolution of e-books and e-readers with several milestones and product launches standing out as catalysts for change in...
Friday 6 November 2009
Taiwan market: CHT, FET and Taiwan Mobile competing for e-book services
The top-three Taiwan-based telecom carriers Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) and Taiwan Mobile are all eager to offer e-book services in order to help...
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Acer chairman calls for cross-strait cooperation on WiMAX, e-book readers
Acer chairman JT Wang, who also serves as chairman of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), has invited China-based players to attend Computex 2010 and hopes participation could...
Friday 30 October 2009
HannStar Display to begin shipping touch panels in March 2010
LCD panel maker HannStar Display has entered design-in for the production of touch panels in cooperation with color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic with volume shipments slated...
Tuesday 27 October 2009
CMO to starts shipping e-book display panels in 4Q09
LCD panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) will start shipping 6- and 9-inch e-book reader panels to its e-paper production partner Prime View International (PVI) in the fourth...
Tuesday 27 October 2009
MSI developing Tegra-based e-book reader, still no plans for Gigabyte
Micro-Star International (MSI) chairman Joseph Hsu revealed that the company is currently in development of an Nvidia Tegra-based e-book reader, but since the device still has some...
Tuesday 27 October 2009
MSI and Gigabyte expect strong notebook shipment growth in 2010
Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology recently revealed that their notebook shipments picked up in the second half of the year and both companies are optimistic about...
Friday 23 October 2009
AUO aims to ship 1-2 million e-book reader panels in 2010
LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) aims to ship 1-2 million e-book reader panels in 2010, taking as much as almost one third of the global market for the segment, according to company...
Friday 23 October 2009
Barnes & Noble introduces nook, its wireless ebook reader with E Ink display and first color touch screen for navigation
New York, New York – October 20, 2009 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today the launch of nook, the Barnes & Noble...