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Wednesday 21 September 2016
Acer to release VR backpack for 2017, targeting B2B market
Acer is planning to launch a virtual reality (VR) backpack for 2017, but instead of the consumer sector, the product will mainly focus on the business to business (B2B) market. The...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
China market: Huawei striving to develop cloud datacenter business
Huawei plans to inject an annual R&D expenditure of US$1 billion in the next few years to develop its cloud datacenter products, aiming to generate revenues of US$10 billion from...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
EMEA server spending decreases by 3.7% on year in 2Q16, says IDC
As reported in IDC's EMEA Server Tracker, in the second quarter of 2016 the EMEA server market reported a moderate on-year decline in vendor revenues of 3.7% to EUR3 billion (US$3.37...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
FET unveils first 5G lab in Taiwan
Mobile telecom carrier Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has unveiled the first 5G laboratory ever established in Taiwan through cooperation with Ericsson. The lab, which is also...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Digitimes Research: Collaborative robots to drive Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing
Buoyed by increasing investments by makers and rising popularity in use, collaborative robots, which are designed to promote collaborative operations between human being and machines,...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Smart mobile video systems for police patrol cars, a state-of-the-art technology
The United States is seeing rising tensions between its law enforcement officers and the citizens they are charged to protect, with multiple reports of clashes between the police...
Monday 19 September 2016
Worldwide public cloud services market to grow 17% in 2016, says Gartner
The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.2% in 2016 to total US$208.6 billion, up from US$178 billion in 2015, according to Gartner. The highest growth will...
Monday 19 September 2016
Asustek launches ZenFone 3 in Russia, says paper
Asustek Computer recently hosted a product launch conference in Moscow, Russia and is the largest vendor in the country for many product lines including motherboards, graphics cards...
Monday 19 September 2016
China market: LeEco set to launch new smartphone on September 21
China-based LCD TV and smartphone vendor LeEco is set to release a new smartphone on a product event in Beijing on September 21, according to media reports in China. The vendor is...
Monday 19 September 2016
Taiwan market: APT to set up GSM network for voice communications
Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has disclosed it has obtained approval from Taiwan's National Communications Commission for establishing a GSM network on a 900MHz frequency band unit with...
Monday 19 September 2016
Sprint intros MediaTek-powered smartphone
Sprint has introduced the LG X Power, which features the MediaTek Helio P10-series chipset. The device is the first MediaTek-powered smartphone available from Sprint breaking new...
Monday 19 September 2016
China market: Oppo still ramping up component, panel orders, say sources
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo, which had its shipments impeded partially by tight supply of flat panels recently, has continued to ramp up its orders for parts and components,...
Wednesday 14 September 2016
Business planning in the cloud: Q&A with Anaplan
Silicon Valley based Anaplan, a cloud-based planning and performance management platform provider, recently announced it has surpassed a US$100 million revenue run-rate and reached...
Wednesday 14 September 2016
China-based wearable device vendors see shipments growth in 2Q16, says IDC
China shipped 9.54 million wearable devices in the second quarter of 2016, an increase of 13.2% from the previous quarter and up 81.4% from a year earlier, according to IDC's China...
Wednesday 14 September 2016
Inspur starts price war for servers in Europe, say Taiwan makers
China-based server vendor Inspur Technologies has triggered price-cut competition for servers used in cloud data centers in Europe, looking to expand in Europe's cloud computing server...