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Tuesday 5 January 2016
Taiwan market: Samsung releases new smartphones, to launch VR devices and Samsung Pay
To strengthen its mid-range smartphone competitiveness, Samsung Electronics has launched its new Galaxy A5 and A7 smartphones in the Taiwan market, aiming to recapture the top vendor...
Monday 4 January 2016
Lenovo sees weak server shipments in 2015; looking to ship over 1 million units in 2016
Despite the acquisition of IBM's server business, Lenovo's server shipments dropped over 20% on year in 2015 and the company is pushing aggressively to land datacenter orders from...
Monday 4 January 2016
Asustek to face strong challenge ramping smartphone sales in Southeast Asia in 2016
Asustek Computer will meet a strong challenge to boost its smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia in 2016 as China-based vendors including Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Meizu, Oppo and...
Thursday 31 December 2015
NCC approves Asia Pacific Telecom return of 3G band unit
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on December 30 approved the return of a 900MHz frequency band by Asia Pacific Telecom because a portion is in a band unit acquired...
Thursday 31 December 2015
Vivotek chairman optimistic about Taiwan competitiveness in surveillance market
Commenting on the fierce price competition from China players, Taiwan-based surveillance product vendor Vivotek chairman Owen Chen said the company has already been in the market...
Thursday 31 December 2015
Taiwan market: Home appliances and smartphones see rising demand thanks to subsidies
The Taiwan government has offered subsidies to consumers for purchasing power-saving home appliances and smartphones and will continue until February 29, 2016. The promotion has successfully...
Thursday 31 December 2015
China market: Smartisan launches Smartisan T2 smartphone
China-based Smartisan Digital has launched a new smartphone, the Smartisan T2, which features a metallic frame.
Thursday 31 December 2015
Acer expands smartphone presence into Latin America
Acer has announced cooperation with Bahamas Telecommunications and Ecuador's Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones to sell its smartphones and wearable devices.
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Acer partners with Wistron to create BYOC smart classrooms in China, says paper
Acer has partnered with Wistron to set up Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) smart classrooms in Chongqing, China and it is the company's first smart education cloud computing project in...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Apple more than doubles smartphone shipments in MEA region in 3Q15, says Counterpoint Research
Overall the mobile phone market in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 23% on year in the third quarter of 2015, with the smartphone segment growing 31%, almost three times faster...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Commentary: Gaming notebooks, VR devices may not be as promising as expected
While the production of gaming notebooks and VR (virtual reality) devices looks to be promising in 2016, keen competition in the gaming notebook sector and a lack of supply chain...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Taiwan market: CHT reaches 2015 target 4G user base
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) had 4.4 million 4G mobile communication subscribers as of December 29, attaining the 2015 target it set in May 2014 when kicking off 4G commercial operation,...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Inventec buys HTC building to house business-use PC R&D headquarters
Notebook ODM Inventec on December 29 announced the acquisition of a factory/office building located in Taoyuan City, northern Taiwan, at NT$6.060 billion (US$184.5 million) from smartphone...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
IoT market to boost MCU shipments, says ABI Research
The IoT market will be responsible for 150 million unit shipments of multicore microcontroller unit (MCU) chips in 2015, with that number to rise to 1.3 billion units by 2020, a 54%...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Targeting future demand and creating new opportunities: Conquer Electronics responds to market challenges with advantage in automation and customization
Starting out as an OEM subcontracting jobs to laborers working at home 40 years ago, Conquer has now become the leader in fuse components. In the 1970s and 1980s when home appliances...