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Thursday 20 March 2014
Taiwan market: NCC approves Chunghwa Telecom broadband price cuts
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on March 19 approved the reduction in circuit-lease fees for fixed-line ADSL and fiber-optic broadband, by 4.41-4.80% proposed by...
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Digitimes Research: Google, Apple extend to automobile electronics industry
In addition to the smart mobile device markets, Apple and Google have also been expanding their presence in other industries such as automobile electronics.
Tuesday 18 March 2014
Digitimes Research: Google shifts focus to large-size tablet competition
Digitimes Research has learned that Google is set to release at least two Nexus tablets in 2014 with an 8.9-inch model already under development and set to enter mass production in...
Tuesday 18 March 2014
China market: Smartphone sales over 97 million units in 4Q13, says Analysys
There were 106.83 million handsets sold in the China market during fourth-quarter 2013, growing 4.1% sequentially and 54.8% on year. Smartphones accounted for 97.63 million units,...
Tuesday 18 March 2014
China market: Booming online smartphone sales to affect vendor rankings
Efforts by China-based smartphone vendors to push sales through online trading is likely to result in significant impacts on sales volumes and vendor rankings in the China market...
Tuesday 18 March 2014
Taiwan market: Asia Pacific Telecom to deal out cash dividend for 2013
Asia Pacific Telecom, a CDMA 2000 carrier who has secured a 4G license in Taiwan, will distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$0.46 (US$0.015) for 2013, accounting for 82.14% of...
Monday 17 March 2014
Digitimes Research: Comcast to push into new digital home market
In addition to its existing Xfinity Triple-Play services, US-based Comcast has recently announced it will cooperate with US-based NRG Energy to offer electricity services. The move...
Monday 17 March 2014
China handset vendors will account for over 50% of mobile handset sales in 2015, says ABI Research
China-based handset vendors will account for over 50% of mobile handset sales in 2015. China-based vendors accounted for 38% of mobile handset shipments in 2013 and the ongoing shift...
Monday 17 March 2014
Adlink Technology nets NT$2.43 per share for 2013
Industrial computing device maker Adlink Technology generated net EPS of NT$2.43 (US$0.081) for 2013, the company announced at a March 14 investors conference.
Friday 14 March 2014
China market: K-Touch launches secondary brand for smartphones
Following the steps of fellow companies Huawei, Coolpad and Gionee, China-based Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, the vendor of K-Touch brand smartphones in China, has launched...
Friday 14 March 2014
Security appliance revenues jump 6.8% in 4Q13, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, factory revenues and units rose in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. Worldwide...
Friday 14 March 2014
Global market revenues for wireless charging to rise by nearly factor of 40 by 2018, says IHS
Propelled by the rising availability of products and partial resolution of standards conflicts, the global market for wireless charging hardware used for mobile devices like smartphones...
Friday 14 March 2014
China Mobile requires 5-mode support for TD-LTE smartphones
China Mobile requires that all TD-LTE smartphones to be certified beginning May 31, 2014 support five mobile communication standards: TD-LTE, FDD LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and GSM, according...
Thursday 13 March 2014
Shipment ratio of 8-core smartphone solutions to be lower in 2014
The shipment ratio of 8-core processors to total smartphone solution shipments will not be higher in 2014 as brand and white-box handset vendors in China will still prefer to use...
Thursday 13 March 2014
Samsung, HP to launch Chrome OS AIO PCs
Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard (HP) will follow LG Electronics to launch Chrome OS all-in-one PCs later in 2014, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.