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Thursday 22 January 2015
HP, Dell adopt new approaches to regain server orders
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell have both recently taken steps looking to win back orders that were lost to Taiwan-based white-box server players. HP has partnered with Foxconn Electronics...
Thursday 22 January 2015
Digitimes Research: CES 2105 highlights new developments of parts and components for smartwatches
Smartwatch vendors were exhibiting new prototypes and newly developed parts and components, mainly displays, watchbands and sensors, to test the market responses during the recently...
Thursday 22 January 2015
Acer aims to double smartphone shipments in 2015, says CEO
Acer expects its smartphone shipments in 2015 to double from 4-5 million units shipped a year earlier, according to company CEO Jason Chen. This means Acer aims to ship about 10 million...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Taiwan market: HTC to ramp up sales through retail channels
HTC plans to strengthen its cooperation with open retail channels to promote sales of its smartphones in the Taiwan market, aiming to ramp up the ratio of channel sales to 35-40%...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Smart City Expo kicks off in Taipei
The Smart City Summit and Expo in Taipei kicked off on January 20 featuring a variety of solutions such as connectivity, cloud computing, and construction and management to create...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Global smartphone shipments grow nearly 26% in 2014, says TrendForce
Global smartphone shipments totaled 1.167 billion units in 2014, increasing 25.9% from a year earlier, according to TrendForce.
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Taiwan market: APT 2014 pre-tax loss reaches NT$10 billion
Asia Pacific Telecom (APT), a CDMA 2000 and a 4G operator in Taiwan, suffered pre-tax losses of NT$10.207 billion (US$332 million) in 2014, according to the company.
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Rising competition from China supply chain: Q&A with Compal president Ray Chen
Compal Electronics was one of the pioneers that relocated its major production base to China from Taiwan in 1990 and has since then transformed itself into an IT conglomerate with...
Tuesday 20 January 2015
ZTE looks to ship 60 million smartphones in 2015
China-based handset vendor ZTE is expected to ship 60 million smartphones in 2015, increasing 25% from 48 million units shipped a year earlier, according to an industry estimate.
Tuesday 20 January 2015
Pegatron confident about maintaining Apple orders in 2015, says chairman
Pegatron chairman TH Tung has responded to stock market analysts' concerns that Pegatron may see decreased Apple orders in 2015 because Wistron and Compal Electronics have become...
Tuesday 20 January 2015
Taiwan has chance to serve as major IoT application center, says TCA chairman
Taiwan's technology industry, being a major design and manufacturing base for the global IT industry, is now stepping up efforts developing Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city...
Tuesday 20 January 2015
Profitability is priority, says Acer CEO
Acer has modified its business operational strategies from focusing on revenues and market share to maximizing net profit, and it aims to hike revenue proportions for mobile terminal...
Tuesday 20 January 2015
ZTE sees strong profit growth in 2014
China-based handset and telecom equipment vendor ZTE has has reported revenues of CNY81.24 billion (US$13.19 billion) for 2014, increasing 7.99% on year. Its net operating profit...
Monday 19 January 2015
Asustek seeking partnerships with Xiaomi supply chain
Asustek Computer reportedly is seeking cooperation with Xiaomi's upstream partners such as earphone designer 1more Design and software designer Cheetah Mobile, to strengthen its smartphone...
Monday 19 January 2015
Digitimes Research: China Mobile may start deployment of TD-LTE Nanocell devices in 2H15
In order to meet fast growing demand for TD-LTE, China Mobile is likely to kick off commercial deployment of Nanocell networks in the second half of 2015, according to Digitimes Re...