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Wednesday 13 April 2016
Taiwan market: HTC 10 unveiled
HTC has unveiled HTC 10, an Android 6.0 flagship smartphone, in Taiwan and will launch it in the local market at a recommended retail price of NT$22,900 (US$702) for the 32GB version...
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Cloud environments will drive IT infrastructure spending growth across all regional markets in 2016, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for deployment in cloud...
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Huawei Technologies developing cloud-based products and solutions, says CEO
China-based telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has been developing products and solutions based on cloud computing, according to company vice chairman and rotating CEO Eric...
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Advantech posts NT$10 billion in 1Q16 revenues
Advantech has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.08 billion (US$125.72 million) for March 2016, representing a 50.89% increase on month and 20.26% increase on year. The company...
Monday 11 April 2016
Tech companies creating strategic platforms to support IoT, IHS Says
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology concept that is currently transforming and redefining virtually all markets and industries in fundamental ways. In fact, IHS forecasts...
Monday 11 April 2016
Inspur reportedly joins Apple server supply chain
China-based server brand vendor Inspur has been rumored to have entered Apple's datacenter supply chain, but the rumor has been confirmed neither by Apple nor Inspur.
Monday 11 April 2016
Chunghwa Telecom nets NT$1.50 per share for January-March
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has reported net profit of NT$3.53 billion (US$107 million) for March 2016, leading to net EPS of NT$1.50 for January-March.
Monday 11 April 2016
Asustek reports increased March revenues
IT vendor Asustek Computer has reported consolidated revenues of NT$48.57 billion (US$1.48 billion) for March, rising 37.23% on month and 15.30% on year. Its January-March consolidated...
Friday 8 April 2016
Worldwide IT spending forecast to decline 0.5% in 2016, says Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's...
Friday 8 April 2016
Taiwan market: iPhone SE launches
Apple on April 7 launched the 4-inch iPhone SE in the Taiwan market, with a 16GB version for sale at NT$15,500 (US$473) and 64GB model at NT$19,500, according to sources from the...
Friday 8 April 2016
India x86 server market registers 19.2% annual growth in 2015, says IDC India
According to IDC, overall server market in India surged by 19.2% in 2015, with 157,061 units shipped in 2015 as against 131,695 units in 2014. The fourth quarter of 2015 witnessed...
Friday 8 April 2016
Acer China eyes enterprise business opportunities, says paper
Acer China is turning to focus on the enterprise sector as demand for PCs in China continues to weaken, according to Acer China president Song Jinghua (transliterated from Chinese)...
Thursday 7 April 2016
iPhone SE is 3 iPhone generations rolled into 1, IHS teardown reveals
A preliminary estimate by IHS and its teardown and cost benchmarking service shows that the iPhone SE smartphone costs about US$160 to build. The US version of an entry-level iPhone...
Thursday 7 April 2016
Huawei launches new flagship P9 for high-end smartphone market
Huawei has unveiled its new premier smartphone, the Huawei P9, in London, which is expected to compete head to head with Apple's iPhone 6s and Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S7.
Thursday 7 April 2016
Europe becoming new battlefield for datacenter server players
Datacenter server competition has recently expanded from North America to Europe and players including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Quanta Computer and Wistron's server subsidiary, Wiwynn,...