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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...
Friday 23 January 2015
LG ships 59.6 million smartphones in 2014, say reports
LG Electronics shipped 59.6 million smartphones globally in 2014, increasing 25.2% from 47.6 million units shipped a year earlier, according to media reports from Korea.
Friday 23 January 2015
Taiwan market: iPhone 6 devices record largest market share in December
Buoyed by continued strong sales of iPhone 6 devices, Apple ranked as the top smartphone vendor in the Taiwan market in December both in terms of sales value and volume, according...
Friday 23 January 2015
China December mobile phone user base grows to 1.286 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.286 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of December 2014, growing 0.40% on month and 4.64% on year. 485.26 million (37.73%) were...
Friday 23 January 2015
2015 global AP market forecast and vendor analysis
Digitimes Research estimates that total 2014 AP shipments will reach 1.52 billion units worldwide, up 19.6% from 2013, and in 2015 the global market will see shipments of 1.65 billion...
Friday 23 January 2015
Toshiba reorganization to strengthen IoT-related business
Toshiba has announced that the company will consolidate departments involved in information and communication technology (ICT) solutions into its in-house Cloud & Solutions Company...
Thursday 22 January 2015
Digitimes Research: China smartphone industry to report shipment growth of 8.6% for 4Q14
During visits to firms in China's smartphone supply chain in November and December 2014, Digitimes Research found that their shipments to the domestic market were weak in the fourth...