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Monday 4 May 2015
Taiwan market: TWM aims at 3 million 4G users for end of 2015
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) has reached 1.6 million 4G mobile communication subscribers currently and aims to increase the number to three million at the end of 2015, the company said at...
Monday 4 May 2015
Chunghwa Telecom 1Q15 capital spending at NT$5.53 billion
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has set aside a capex budget of NT$30.7 billion (US$1 billion) for 2015 and spent NT$5.53 billion in the first quarter, according to the company at an April...
Thursday 30 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments to stay flat on quarter and reach 49.31 million units in 2Q15
Global tablet shipments are expected to stay flat from a quarter ago and reach 49.31 million units in the second quarter of 2015, but compared to the same quarter a year ago, the...
Thursday 30 April 2015
Samsung reports decreased profits for 1Q15
Samsung Electronics has reported net profits of KRW4.63 trillion (US$4.35 billion) for the first quarter of 2015, down 38.2% from the KRW7.49 trillion of a year earlier. Meanwhile,...
Thursday 30 April 2015
India market: Huawei aims to ship 2 million smartphones in 2015
Huawei aims to ramp up its smartphone shipments to India to two million units in 2015, according to Zhao Ming, president of Huawei's Honor Business Unit. Huawei held a 4% share of...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Japan online video market to grow significantly starting 2H15
Japan's online video market is expected to grow significantly starting the second half of 2015 when Netflix begins to offer its services, NTT DoCoMo launches its dTV Terminal program...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Tencent partners with Bank of Beijing, says report
China-based Tencent has signed contracts with Bank of Beijing for a strategic partnership. The bank will provide CNY10 billion (US$1.61 billion) to support Tencent's Internet+ project...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: Taiwan Star Cellular aims at 500,000 4G users for end of 2015
Taiwan Star Cellular aims to increase the number of its 4G mobile communication subscribers from 200,000-250,000 currently to 500,000 at the end of 2015, according to company president...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: Xiaomi to launch Mi 4i in May
Xiaomi Technology plans to launch its new smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 4i, in the Taiwan market on May 7, with its global vice president Hugo Barra presiding over the product event.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
HTC to raise outsourcing in 2015, says CFO
HTC is likely to raise the ratio of smartphones outsourced to ODM partners in 2015, according to company president of global sales and CFO Chang Chia-lin.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
MediaTek MT6735 chip adopted by major China smartphone firms
MediaTek has announced that its MT6735 quad-core 4G 64-bit full-mode chip solution has been adopted by China-based ZTE, Lenovo and TCL for their upcoming smartphones.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: TWM cooperates with Brightstar to collect 2nd-hand smartphones
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) on April 28 announced an exclusive cooperation agreement with Brightstar, a global distributor of mobile devices and a subsidiary of Japan-based SoftBank, to collect...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
China market: China Telecom 1Q15 revenues, profit down
China Telecom on April 28 released its first-quarter 2015 financial report, with revenues of CNY81.453 (US$13.06 billion) decreasing 2.1% on year and net profit dropping 9% to CNY5.046...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: FET aims at 3 million 4G users by end of 2015
Taiwan-based Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) saw the number of its 4G mobile communication subscribers increase from nearly one million at year-end 2014 to 1.5 million at the...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Networking chipset vendors to focus on ARM-based server processors
Networking chipset vendors including Broadcom, Cavium and Applied Micro Circuit (AMCC) have taken the initiative to replace PowerPC and MIPS architectures with ARM's for developments...