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Friday 14 February 2014
Taiwan handsets – 4Q 2013
Taiwan's handset shipments registered slight sequential growth in the fourth quarter of 2013. While brand vendor HTC remained the top player in Taiwan's handset industry, ODM Chi...
Friday 14 February 2014
Taiwan ODMs shipping more servers to end clients
Taiwan-based ODMs Quanta Computer, Inventec and Wistron have been shipping more servers to direct accounts such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook despite the fact that the...
Friday 14 February 2014
Display shipments affected by weak demand for entry-level smartphones, say sources
Business prospects for display suppliers and other makers in the handset supply chain are expected to remain sluggish in the short term as brand and white-box handset makers in China...
Friday 14 February 2014
Smartphone sales surpass sales of feature phones for first time in 2013, says Gartner
Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 968 million units in 2013, an increase of 42.3% from 2012, according to Gartner. Sales of smartphones accounted for 53.6% of overall...
Thursday 13 February 2014
Indonesia market: BlackBerry to stage a turnaround with Jakarta model
The BlackBerry-Foxconn tie-up is expected to launch their first jointly developed BlackBerry 10-based smartphone, the Jakarta, in Indonesia in April, according to industry sources.
Thursday 13 February 2014
LinkTel launches Skype smartphone
LinkTel, a wholly owned subsidiary of PChome Online to operate Skype services in Taiwan, on February 11 unveiled an Android 4.2 smartphone specifically for Skype communications, for...
Thursday 13 February 2014
Microsoft to unveil new mobile devices running on integrated OS, say sources
Microsoft is expected to unveil an array of new mobile devices with display sizes below 8.5-inch running on an integrated OS derived from Windows RT and Windows Phone in June, according...
Thursday 13 February 2014
Taiwan Star Cellular plans to start 4G operations in 3Q14
Taiwan Star Cellular, one of the six next-generation (4G) mobile communication licensees in Taiwan, plans to kick off commercial operations in the third quarter of 2014, according...
Thursday 13 February 2014
Chunghwa Telecom aims at revenue proportion of 51% for non-voice business in 2014
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) aims to hike revenues from non-voice operations to account for 51% of consolidated revenues for 2014, according to the company.
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Digitimes Research: China smartphone sales grow 21.9% sequentially in 4Q13
Sales of smartphones in China grew 21.9% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2013, but the growth rate dropped to 15.9% on an annual basis which indicates the smartphone market...
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Synnex Technology sees decreased January revenues
Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International on February 10 reported consolidated revenues of NT$25.1 billion (US$829 million) for...
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Computer storage industry declines in 2013 despite robust growth of SSDs, says IHS
A near-doubling of the market for solid-state drives was unable to help the computer-related storage industry in 2013, which slid 5% in shipments because of continuing contractions...
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Clientron to present its latest POS solution at Euroshop 2014
Taipei, Taiwan - Clientron Corp., a world-leading supplier of POS, thin client and embedded systems, will proudly present its latest product innovations including all-in-one POS terminal,...
Monday 10 February 2014
Chunghwa Telecom nets NT$0.45 per share for January
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on February reported net profit of NT$3.46 billion (US$114 million) for January 2014, translating into net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$0.45.
Monday 10 February 2014
HTC expects net loss per share of NT$2.1-2.6 for 1Q14
Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC expects consolidated revenues of NT$34.0-36.0 billion (US$1.12-1.19 billion), gross margin of 21.5-22.0% and net loss per share of NT$2.1-2.6 for...