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Thursday 22 September 2016
Microsoft unveils Nokia 216 feature phone
Microsoft has unveiled a new feature phone, the Nokia 216, which sports a 2.4-inch QVGA display enabling Internet browsing, viewing pictures, playing videos and gaming.
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Taiwan market: China smartphone vendor Meitu launches M6
China-based smartphone vendor Meitu has launched its Meitu M6 smartphone in the Taiwan market. The Meitu M6, which features a 5-inch Full HD display and an octa-core MediaTek Helio...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
China market: Asustek launches ZenFone 3, notebooks and 2-in-1s
Asustek Computer announced its new notebooks and smartphones including ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, ZenFone 3 Ultra, ZenBook 3, Transformer 3 and Transformer 3 Pro in China on September...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Taiwan market: HTC launches Desire 10 Lifestyle
HTC has begun marketing its mid-range HTC Desire 10 Lifestyle smartphone in Taiwan and globally. The Desire 10 Lifestyle, which features a 5.5-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 400...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
iPhone 7 materials costs higher than previous versions, IHS says
The bill of materials (BOM) for an iPhone 7 equipped with 32GB of NAND flash memory carries US$219.80 in bill of materials costs, according to a preliminary estimate from IHS Marki...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
China market: Smartphone vendors foray into mobile payment market
With the number of mobile payment users in China still expanding robustly and is likely to reach 200 million in 2016, which is more than five times the market size in the US, brand...
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...