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Wednesday 22 October 2014
Sony Mobile to amend strategy for releasing flagship models
Sony Mobile Communications will amend its policy for the launch of flagship models by releasing only one new model a year, instead of two models currently, according to sources at...
Wednesday 22 October 2014
Wearable sensor market to expand sevenfold in 5 years, says IHS
Driven by rising demand for fitness and health monitoring features as well as by improved user interfaces, shipments of sensors used in wearable electronic devices will rise by a...
Wednesday 22 October 2014
Chunghwa Telecom participates in NCP submarine cable construction
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has announced its participation in a joint-venture constructing and maintaining the New Cross Pacific Cable (NCP), a submarine cable system linking Taiwan,...
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Apple announces financial results for fiscal 4Q14
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter that ended September 27, 2014. The company posted quarterly revenues of US$42.1 billion and quarterly net...
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Apple likely to supply more iPhone 6 Plus to satisfy strong demand from China, say sources
Apple may have to adjust again the supply ratios of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus due to higher than expected demand for the iPhone 6 Plus in China, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Lenovo to set up secondary brand for mobile devices
The Lenovo Group has announced that it will create a new company to focus on sales of smart devices and services through Internet. The new company will operate under a separate name...
Tuesday 21 October 2014
China Mobile January-September profit down on year
China Mobile has posted consolidated revenues of CNY481.235 billion (US$78.07 billion) for January-September 2014, increasing 3.9% on year, while its net profit of CNY82.602 billion...
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Global smartphone shipments grow 9.1% in 3Q14, says TrendForce
Global smartphone shipments grew 9.1% to reach 310 million units in the third quarter of 2014, and iPhone 6 shipments surpassed Apple's target of 73.5 million units to reach 80 million...
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Taiwan market: 4G users to reach 3 million by year-end 2014, says CHT chairman
The number of 4G mobile communication subscribers in Taiwan will continue increasing to three million by the end of 2014, accounting for 13% of Taiwan's population, according to Chunghwa...
Monday 20 October 2014
Commentary: China ODM services increasing as local vendors aim to cut costs and expand handset lineups
Low-priced, high-specification handsets are continuing to be focus for handset vendors in China, with Xiaomi, Coolpad and Huawei Device expected to push segment in 2015 in order to...
Monday 20 October 2014
Digitimes Research: Japan new fund raising policy to provide positive benefit to crowd funding market
Following the passing of Japan's 2014 amendment of financial instruments and exchange act, etc. on May 23, 2014, unlisted companies in Japan are now allowed to raise funds through...
Monday 20 October 2014
Asustek expects at least NT$2 billion in profits from handset business in 2015
Asustek Computer expects its handset shipments to grow dramatically to 16 million units in 2015, helping its profits from the business line to reach at least NT$2 billion in the year,...
Friday 17 October 2014
Synapse Design launches cloud platform
Synapse Design recently announced its Cloud hardware platform based on a Freescale T4240 network processor and natively running OpenStack Icehouse.
Friday 17 October 2014
Acer, MediaTek BYOC partnership to achieve some results in 1H15
Acer and MediaTek's cooperation in cloud computing is expected to achieve preliminary results in the first half of 2015 related to wearable devices, according to Acer BYOC business...
Friday 17 October 2014
Connected devices driving strong growth in gateway investments by ISPs, says IHS
The global market for broadband consumer premises equipment (CPE) will end 2014 with the highest growth in revenues since 2010, increasing by 20% from 2013 to reach nearly US$11 billion,...