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Friday 20 May 2016
Denmark-based Universal Robots to set up subsidiary in Taiwan
Universal Robots, a Denmark-based developer of collaborative robots, will set up a subsidiary in Taiwan in June 206 to tap the local market. The subsidiary will start operations in...
Friday 20 May 2016
WebRTC Promotes Cross-Platform Video Messaging, Inspiring Creative IIoT Uses
The peer-to-peer (P2P) based Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) is an open source standard created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to support the usage of HTML5 video and...
Friday 20 May 2016
Commentary: Foxconn moves one step further to become brand operator
The move by the Foxconn Group to take up control of two global technology brands, Sharp and Nokia, in less than two months has raised concerns that the EMS/OEM giant will eventually...
Thursday 19 May 2016
China market: 780 million smartphone-based active surfers in 2015, say report
There were 780 million smartphone-based active users of mobile Internet services in the China market in 2015, accounting for 56.9% of the population, according to a joint report by...
Thursday 19 May 2016
Google announces Daydream VR platform; HTC, Asustek to join Daydream club
Google has announced Daydream, a VR platform built on top of newly released Android N. Google said that Daydream-ready phones, as well as VR viewers and motion controllers will be...
Thursday 19 May 2016
Alibaba increasing investments in online video services
Yin Jing, president of the home appliance business unit at China-based Alibaba's e-commerce subsidiary T-mall has commented at CES Asia 2016 that Alibaba has been keen on investing...
Thursday 19 May 2016
Taiwan market: HTC ties up with Volkswagen to enter IoV market
HTC has tied up with automaker Volkswagen to jointly develop in-car monitoring systems in a bid to penetrate into the fast growing Internet of Vehicles (IoV) market.
Thursday 19 May 2016
Competition in VR market among Taiwan brands heating up
Both Asustek Computer and Acer will follow the step of smartphone vendor HTC to enter the virtual reality (VR) device market soon, heating up competition among local brands in the...
Thursday 19 May 2016
HTC US still taking orders for Vive, says company
Consumers in the US are still able to order the HTC Vive via HTC's official website in the country, the vendor's senior global online communications manager Jeff Gordon has said in...
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Microsoft to sell feature phone business
Microsoft has announced it has reached an agreement to sell its entry-level feature phone assets to FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of the Foxconn Group, and HMD Global, Oy for US$350 mil...
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Lenovo launches xClarity to unify control of IBM System and ThinkServer products
After acquiring IBM's x86 server business, Lenovo has been aggressively trying to merge IBM's System X with its ThinkServer solutions and is planning to complete the process by 2017...
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Use Video Surveillance To Drive New Consumer Revenue Opportunities
In part 1 of this series, we showed you how video...
Wednesday 18 May 2016
India market: Lenovo beats other China vendors, takes third position in handset market in 2015, says report
Lenovo shipped 10 million handsets in the India market in 2015, ranking the third-largest handset vendor in the market, according to a China-based sina.com report.
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Xiaomi to unveil drones in late May, says CEO
China-based Xiaomi Technology will unveil its drone products in late May, according to company CEO Lei Jun.
Wednesday 18 May 2016
FIH Mobile suffers net losses for 1Q16
Hong Kong-listed handset ODM FIH Mobile, a member of the Foxconn Group, has announced revenues of US$1.083 billion for the first quarter of 2016, dropping 46.22% on year.