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Wednesday 28 January 2015
HTC sponsors eSports teams Cloud 9, Team Liquid, Team SoloMid
HTC has made an entrance into the eSports arena sponsoring three teams: Cloud 9, Team Liquid and Team SoloMid (TSM).
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Digitimes Research: China smartphone shipments drop 8.8% sequentially in 4Q14
Shipments of smartphones by China-based vendors declined 8.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2014, affected by weaker than expected sales for some brand vendors, according...
Wednesday 28 January 2015
IoT opportunities reliant on dependent developments, say Taiwan makers
Taiwan makers are eyeing opportunities with the the Internet of Things (IoT) but believe business opportunities will come slowly as hardware, software and new concept developments...
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Taiwan market: Xiaomi ships 100,000 smart bracelets in less than 2 months
Xiaomi Technology has sold 100,000 units of its Xiaomi smart bracelets in the Taiwan market in less than two months. The vendor aims to ship 500,000 smart bracelets in the local market...
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Huawei aims to ship 100 million smartphones in 2015
China-based Huawei targets to ramp up its smartphone shipments to over 100 million units in 2015, increasing 33.3% from 75 million units shipped a year earlier, according to the co...
Tuesday 27 January 2015
Taiwan market: Sony Mobile to focus on mid-range to high-end smartphone segment
Sony Mobile Communications will focus on the mid-range to high-end smartphone segment in the Taiwan market in 2015, aiming to rank as one of the top-three vendors in the segment,...
Tuesday 27 January 2015
Acer to sell Liquid Z200 via cooperation with Bookoff in Japan
Acer on January 27 announced that up to 30,000 units of its Liquid Z200, its 4.0-inch Android 4.4.2 smartphone, will be available for sale in the Japan market through Bookoff, the...
Tuesday 27 January 2015
Foxconn to assist China handset brands expanding sales in emerging markets in 2015
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will make assisting its China-based handset clients including Xiaomi Technology, Meizu and MIT boost their sales to emerging markets...
Tuesday 27 January 2015
Samsung starts smartphone production lines in Indonesia, says report
Samsung Electronics' production lines for smartphones in Indonesia have reportedly started operating recently, according to a Korean-language Edaily report citing sources...
Monday 26 January 2015
China market: China vendors to beef up competition for CNY2,000-3,000 segment, say sources
China-based smartphone vendors, including Xiaomi Technology, Lenovo, ZTE and Coolpad, all plan to strengthen their presence in the CNY2,000-3,000 (US$320-478) smartphone segment in...
Monday 26 January 2015
A quarter billion connected vehicles expected to be on the road by 2020, says Gartner
By 2020, there will be a quarter billion connected vehicles on the road, enabling new in-vehicle services and automated driving capabilities. During the next five years, the proportion...
Monday 26 January 2015
Acer looks to stable smartphone business, says CEO
Acer's smartphone business has not yet turned profitable, but it will continue to adopt a stable business model to look for business opportunities in the market, according to company...
Monday 26 January 2015
Taiwan 4Q14 international Internet bandwidth rises to 1.437Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connections with 17 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached a total bandwidth of 1.437Tbps as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, increasing...
Friday 23 January 2015
Taiwan market: CHT, Acer to jointly offer business-use communication solutions
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and Acer have signed a MoU for cooperation to offer integrated communication solutions, with enterprises and government organizations in Taiwan to be target...
Friday 23 January 2015
Digitimes Research: China players becoming strong threat to first-tier brand vendors
Observing vendors' showcases at CES 2015, Digitimes Research believes first-tier notebook brand vendors' 2-in-1 devices are expected face fierce price competition from China's white-box...