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Monday 23 May 2016
Huawei to launch Daydream-based smartphones, HMDs
Huawei plans to integrate its Kirin CPU products with Qualcomm's processors to roll out smartphones and head-mounted devices (HMD) supporting Google's Daydream VR (virtual reality)...
Monday 23 May 2016
China market: Lenovo to use Samsung Exynos CPUs
ZUK, a handset subsidiary of Lenovo, is to roll out a new smartphone powered by a Samsung Electronics Exynos 8890 processor, according to company CEO Chang Cheng.
Monday 23 May 2016
FIH Mobile building handset production lines in Guizhou for Huawei
FIH Mobile, an OEM handset arm of the Foxconn Group, is building new production lines in Guizhou, China in order to produce handsets for Huawei, according to Japan-based Nikkei...
Monday 23 May 2016
Amazon considering setting up cloud data centers in Taiwan
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is considering establishing cloud data centers in Taiwan and has finished a feasibility evaluation but has not yet made any decision, Amazon corporate vice...
Monday 23 May 2016
Winmate, Inc. to showcase latest automotive solutions for the Industry 4.0 at Computex 2016
Winmate, Inc. will showcase its latest industrial solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 at Computex 2016 which takes place May 31st - June 1st in Taipei, Taiwan...
Friday 20 May 2016
Apple iPhone shipments fall 14% in 1Q16, says Gartner
Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 349 million units in the first quarter of 2016, a 3.9% increase over the same period in 2015, according to Gartner. Samsung extended...
Friday 20 May 2016
China March mobile communication user base grows to 1.293 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.293 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of March 2016, increasing 0.71% on month but decreasing 0.08% on year. 264.37 million...
Friday 20 May 2016
Compal Electronics to produce Project Tango smartphones for Lenovo, say sources
Notebook and handset ODM Compal Electronics reportedly will undertake the production of a Google's Project Tango-based smartphone for Lenovo, according to industry sources.
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.