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Monday 8 December 2014
Digitimes Research: Lenovo mobile device shipments to lead Samsung by 9 million units in 2015
Enjoying growths in both tablet and notebook shipments, Lenovo is estimated to beat Samsung Electronics in mobile computing device shipments (notebooks and tablets) by about one million...
Monday 8 December 2014
Taiwan ODMs to attract IoT partnerships with fund-raising platforms
With Internet of things (IoT) applications growing popular, many Taiwan-based ODMs and EMS providers are planning to establish fund-raising platforms to attract partnerships with...
Monday 8 December 2014
Coolpad aims to ship over 20 million 4G smartphones in 2014
China-based vendor Coolpad will launch Dazen F2, an Android 4.4.4 smartphone supporting 1,800MHz 4G frequency band, in the Taiwan market at a contract-free retail price of NT$5,490...
Monday 8 December 2014
CEVA offers total solutions for the multi-billion-dollar IoT market
Driven by growing demand in emerging markets including China, the Middle East, and Africa, smartphones broke the one-billion mark in unit shipments in 2013, while tablet shipments...
Monday 8 December 2014
Seizing IoT opportunities, CEVA acquires RivieraWaves
The number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices worldwide is estimated to rapidly grow from 900 million in 2009 to 26 billion in 2020, an increase by more than 30 times, driven by...
Friday 5 December 2014
Will Xiaomi get caught in the antitrust crossfire between China and Qualcomm?
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is investigating Qualcomm's alleged monopolization of patents concerning smartphones through alleged unreasonable licensing...
Friday 5 December 2014
Advantech, Microsoft to jointly set up IoT platform
Advantech will team up with Microsoft to set up an IoT WISE-Cloud (Wireless IoT Sensing Embedded-Cloud) platform to develop related solutions and products for a wide range of IoT...
Friday 5 December 2014
Taiwan market: Google launches Chromecast
Google on December 4 launched Chromecast in the Taiwan market through cooperation with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and KKBOX at a retail price of NT$1,390 (US$44.80), according to Googl...
Friday 5 December 2014
Quanta Computer, Wiwynn eye server orders from large retail chains
As large retail chains including Walmart, Best Buy and Target plan to set up data centers to operate e-commerce, server makers Quanta Computer and Wiwynn are looking to land orders...
Friday 5 December 2014
Digitimes Research: Notebook shipments to see over 10% on-month growth in November
Because of Hewlett-Packard's (HP) stable enterprise notebook orders and strong low-cost consumer notebook orders, both the global top-five brand vendors and top-three ODMs have seen...
Friday 5 December 2014
LTE smartphone shipments to post 3-fold increase in 2015
Shipments of 4G LTE smartphones are expected to increase by more than three fold in 2015, accounting for 50% of total global smartphones shipments, according to industry watchers.
Thursday 4 December 2014
China market: First Beidou-positioning smartphone launched, says paper
The first smartphone featuring the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a China-developed satellite positioning technology, has been launched in the China market, with the smartphone...
Thursday 4 December 2014
Taiwan market: Taiwan Star Cellular offers low voice call pricing for pre-paid card users
Taiwan Star Cellular on December 3 offered a uniform price of NT$2 (US$0.065) per minute for voice calls made by its 3G pre-paid card users, much lower than NT$2.80-6 per minute for...
Thursday 4 December 2014
Quanta targeting healthcare for IoT
Commenting on the Internet of things (IoT) business opportunities, Quanta Computer CTO Ted Chang said the industry in still at the initial stage of development, but the business will...
Thursday 4 December 2014
Worldwide server shipments up 1% in 3Q14 while revenues increase 1.7%, says Gartner
In the third quarter of 2014, worldwide server shipments grew 1% on year, while revenues moved upward 1.7% from the third quarter of 2013, according to Gartner.