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Friday 23 May 2014
Taiwan market: TWM to launch own-brand 3G, 4G smartphones, 4G tablet
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) on May 22 unveiled two own-brand 4G smartphones, the Amazing X1 and Amazing X2, an own-brand 3G smartphone, the Amazing A8, and an own-brand 4G-supporting tablet,...
Thursday 22 May 2014
Acer to unveil BYOC details on May 29; establishes fund for creative industry
Acer is set to unveil more details on its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) system on May 29 and which will integrate Taiwan's software and hardware players to create an ecosystem for Taiwan's...
Thursday 22 May 2014
Asustek 5-10 million ZenFone shipment goal may be unrealistic
Asustek Computer aims to ship 5-10 million ZenFone smartphones in 2014 but smartphone supply chains believe such high numbers may be unrealistic due to increased competition in the...
Thursday 22 May 2014
Lenovo ships 55 million PCs, 50 million smartphones, 9.2 million tablets in fiscal 2013
China-based vendor Lenovo shipped 55 million notebooks and desktops, 50 million smartphones and 9.2 million tablets in fiscal 2013 (April 2013-March 2014), according to the company...
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Wistron, Pegatron fight for orders from Xiaomi
With China-based Xiaomi set to ship 50-60 million smartphones in 2014 and 100 million units in 2015, Wistron and Pegatron Technology are both aggressively trying to land related orders,...
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Connecting the Intelligent World: Clientron to exhibit its new products for Computex Taipei 2014
Clientron Corp., a world-leading manufacturer of thin client and embedded systems, will proudly showcase the complete breadth of its latest product lines including zero/thin client...
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Demand for 4G chips, smartphones to accelerate in 2H14, says Qualcomm Taiwan executive
Demand for 4G LTE-enabled chips as well as smartphones is expected to grow robustly in 2014 with the growth pace to accelerate in the second half of the year, according to Eddie Chang,...
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Digitimes Research: Vendors, software developers flocking to Android OS
Due to the fast-growing Android ecosystem, most software developers have no choice but to support Android OS in order to avoid of being marginalized, according to Digitimes Researc...
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Taiwan market: Telecom carriers may offer substantial subsidies for 4G smartphones
Anticipating intense competition in 4G mobile communication market in Taiwan, telecom carriers are likely to offer handsome subsidies for purchases of 4G smartphones in 2015, according...
Tuesday 20 May 2014
MediaTek unlikely to roll out chipset platforms supporting Windows Phone in 2014
MediaTek is unlikely to roll out smartphone chipset platforms supporting Windows Phone in the short term as the Taiwan-based solution vendor has given the priority to ramp up its...
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Digitimes Research: Developments in the tablet market in May
Samsung Electronics and Lenovo, both of which have ambitious goals for tablet shipments for 2014, both released new tablets in May 2014. Pricing of the new tablet from Samsung is...
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Digitimes Research: LTE users to reach 335 million in 2014
Japan- and Korea-based operators have been aggressively promoting their LTE services. Their counterparts In Latin America and Europed have also been accelerating the process towards...
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Qualcomm to begin volume production of 8-core Snapdragon 615 chips soon
Qualcomm will begin volume production of its first 8-core CPU, the Snapdragon 615, soon and plans to unveil its 64-bit 8-core 810-series and 6-core 808-series products before year-end...
Tuesday 20 May 2014
EverFocus debuts a new technology 'eZ Tracker'
EverFocus recently unveiled a cutting-edge technology, eZ Tracker, combining EverFocus network fisheye camera (EFN3320) and EverFocus network speed dome camera (EPN series) for wide-area...
Monday 19 May 2014
Sony to expand datacenters; outsource orders to Taiwan ODMs
Sony is reportedly considering to expand its data centers to strengthen its cloud computing services, as well as explore and develop applications for big data business opportunities,...