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Monday 5 May 2014
China mobile telecom carriers considering infrastructure joint venture, says reports
China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, three main mobile telecom carriers in China, have been evaluating the feasibility of establishing an infrastructure joint venture specifically...
Monday 5 May 2014
Worldwide tablet plus 2-in-1 shipments slipped to 50.4 million units in 1Q14, says IDC
Worldwide tablet plus 2-in-1 shipments slipped to 50.4 million units in the first quarter of 2014, according to IDC. The total represents a sequential decline of 35.7% from the high-volume...
Monday 5 May 2014
Two-thirds of smartphones will be chipset vendor reference designs by 2019, says ABI Research
More than one-third of smartphones shipped in 2013 were attached to reference designs supplied by key chipset vendors, of which 69% were targeted at below US$200 price points. The...
Monday 5 May 2014
Arima to ship three million smartphones in 2Q14
Arima Communications is expected to see its smartphone shipments gain 15% sequentially to three million smartphones in the second quarter of 2014, buoyed by shipments of the Xperia...
Monday 5 May 2014
Acer to launch BYOC solutions in 3Q14, says chairman
Acer will launch BYOC (build your own cloud) solutions in the third quarter of 2014, according to company chairman Stan Shih.
Monday 5 May 2014
Inventec aims at 2014 gross margin of over 5%, says chairman
Inventec aims to see its gross margin exceed 5% in 2014, compared with 4.95% posted for 2013, according to company chairman Richard Lee.
Friday 2 May 2014
China handset vendors may face increasing patent complaints, say sources
China-based handset vendors have begun strengthening their patent portfolio or establishing defensive alliances to fend off increasing threats of patent complaints from international...
Friday 2 May 2014
Digitimes Research: China vendors to see smartphone shipments grow over 20% sequentially in 2Q14
Shipments of smartphones by China-based vendors are expected to advance 21.3% sequentially to 97.4 million units in the second quarter of 2014, buoyed by the release of entry-level...
Friday 2 May 2014
Ambit Microsystems procures 4G equipment from NSN
Ambit Microsystems, one of the six 4G mobile communication licensees in Taiwan, has procured 4G base station equipment worth US$178 million from Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN),...
Friday 2 May 2014
Chunghwa Telecom aims at 40% share in Taiwan 4G market in 2014
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) aims at a market share of 40% in the Taiwan 4G market by the end of 2014, company chairman Rick Tsai has disclosed.
Friday 2 May 2014
Foxconn, HP to set up server joint venture
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) will establish a joint venture specifically for producing servers for cloud computing and offering related...
Friday 2 May 2014
Acer unveils smart bracelet Liquid Leap
Acer unveiled its first smart bracelet model, Liquid Leap, and a 5-inch smartphone model, Liquid Jade, in New York on April 29.
Wednesday 30 April 2014
Acer debuts new products
Acer held a global launch event themed A Touch More Connected in New York on April 29, unveiling four new notebooks, two tablets, two AIO (all-in-one) PCs and a notebook/tablet 2-in-1...
Wednesday 30 April 2014
APLEX introduces railway Box PC with EN50155 compliance
APLEX Technology Inc., a global industrial computer product solution provider, announced its first railway BOX PC with EN50155 compliance - ACS-2563, which is specially designed to...
Wednesday 30 April 2014
TWM to start 4G operations in July, says president
Taiwan Mobile (TWM), one of the six next-generation (4G) licensees in Taiwan, will kick off commercial operations on a 700MHz frequency bend in July 2014, company president James...