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Monday 24 June 2013
Smartphone brands reluctant to develop Facebook Home-enabled models
A number of branded smartphone vendors, including Samsung Electronics, Sony Mobile Communications, Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei are now reluctant to cooperate with Facebook for the joint...
Monday 27 May 2013
Facebook OCP creating competition for Taiwan hardware makers
Although Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) is expected to benefit Taiwan-based ODMs in terms of shipping servers directly to Internet players, sources from the server industry...
Friday 24 May 2013
Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
Facebook on May 23 established Open Compute Project (OCP) Taiwan in a bid to attract Taiwan-based hardware makers and promote industry standards for cloud computing data center equipment,...
Wednesday 2 January 2013
ODMs reportedly to receive storage product orders from Facebook
Facebook reportedly plans to outsource new storage product orders to Taiwan-based ODMs with both Quanta Computer and Wistron having a chance to land the orders, according to sources...
Wednesday 19 December 2012
More brands to introduce smartphones in 2013
Firms such as Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft all intend to introduce own-brand smartphones which may stir up price competition and become major influences on the market in the second...
Tuesday 25 September 2012
Notebook ODMs expect surging growth in cloud computing business in 2013
As cloud computing business opportunities are expanding, several notebook ODMs have been aggressively pushing their related business segments and expect strong revenue growth from...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Quanta to establish R&D building in Taiwan and recruit software talent in Taiwan
Quanta Computer is set to establish new building in Taiwan for R&D purposes and plans to recruit 4,000 software technicians to focus on developing the cloud computing market,...
Thursday 19 July 2012
PC players need to consider selling smart services in the post-PC era, says Quanta chairman
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, at a cloud computing forum, pointed out that the PC industry will need consider how to sell smart services in the post-PC era, instead of focusing...
Friday 4 May 2012
AMD may be able to increase server platform global market share through joining OCP, say Taiwan makers
AMD's participation in Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) is likely to afford opportunities to hike its global market share for server platforms used in data centers which currently...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
HTC, Facebook jointly developing smartphone, say sources
Given that Google is expected to continue to cooperate with Samsung Electronics for the development of the next-generation Nexus smartphone, HTC reportedly has decided to move forward...
Friday 16 December 2011
ABB to power Facebook's first data center outside the United States
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $11 million from Facebook Inc.'s subsidiary Pinnacle Sweden, to power its first server facility...
Monday 12 December 2011
Server brands reportedly put pressure on ODMs to not acept orders directly from end clients
As social network website players such as Google and Facebook are placing their data center orders directly with PC ODMs, server brand vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and...
Wednesday 9 November 2011
MediaTek ties up with Facebook
MediaTek has announced a strategic alliance with Facebook allowing it to embed the social networking giant's services into its mobile platform solutions.
Tuesday 8 November 2011
Facebook to set up data center in Taiwan, says paper
Facebook will establish a data center in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Facebook has Quanta Computer, Wistron set up Internet data centers in US
Facebook has skipped original partner Dell to commission Taiwan-based ODM Quanta Computer to set up a customized data center in Oregon and another one in North Carolina through cooperation...