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Tuesday 29 October 2013
Taiwan 4G auction: Prices keep rising
An ongoing auction for 4G mobile communication services licenses in Taiwan has seen the total of the highest temporary prices rise to NT$115.255 billion (US$3.91 billion), 221.04%...
Monday 28 October 2013
IPC maker PEC achieves positive profits for the first-three quarters of 2013
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker PEC achieved consolidated revenues of NT$1.29 billion (US$43.9 million) for the first three quarters of 2013, an average gross margin of 18.88%,...
Monday 28 October 2013
Radiant Opto-Electronics expected to benefit from iPad Air, iPad mini-with Retina display
Radiant Opto-Electronics is expected to see consolidated revenues for October rise about 20% on month to nearly NT$6 billion (US$203 million) due to backlight unit orders for use...
Monday 28 October 2013
Combined smartphone and tablet factory revenues to exceed entire consumer electronics market in 2013, says IHS
In a dramatic sign of how consumer tastes have shifted to new, more exciting wireless products, global factory revenues for smartphones and tablets in 2013 will rise to become larger...
Monday 28 October 2013
Taiwan 3Q13 international Internet bandwidth rises to over 1Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connections with 17 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached a total bandwidth of 1.167Tbps as of the end of the third quarter of 2013, increasing...
Monday 28 October 2013
Brazilian media visits EverFocus production center
In early October, Taiwan External Trade Development Council, TAITRA invited Brazilian mainstream TV channel "Band" and the chief editor Victor Hugo Piiroja of the largest...
Monday 28 October 2013
India-based Micromax shipping smartphones to Europe
India-based handset vendor Micromax has begun shipping its smartphones to Russia with plans to enter into other markets in Europe in 2014, according to sources in Taiwan's handset...
Monday 28 October 2013
PC brand vendors release new Windows 8.1 products
Asustek Computer recently released its Transformer Book T100 2-in-1 device featuring Windows 8.1 and Intel Bay Trail-T processor, priced at US$349 for a 32GB model and US$399 for...
Monday 28 October 2013
China September mobile phone user base growing to 1.207 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.207 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of September 2013, growing 0.91% on month and 11.23% on year. 367.60 million (30.47%)...
Monday 28 October 2013
Commentary: Is HTC co-governance a cure or curse?
HTC has revamped its management model under which its chairperson Cher Wang and CEO Peter Chou will co-govern the company, instead of the previous policy of allowing the CEO to handle...
Monday 28 October 2013
Firefox OS smartphones may struggle to compete with Android, Nokia models
Smartphones running on Firefox OS may not be able to compete effectively against low-end Android phones or Nokia's Asha family models, despite successful initial sales of ZTE Open...
Friday 25 October 2013
Cloud computing will become the bulk of new IT spend by 2016, says Gartner
The use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend, according to Gartner. 2016 will be a defining year for cloud as private...
Friday 25 October 2013
Samsung 3Q13 operating profits rise 26% to new record
Samsung Electronics saw its operating profits increase about 26% on year to more than KRW10 trillion (US$9 billion) in the third quarter of 2013, buoyed mainly by significant growth...
Friday 25 October 2013
Shipments of new iPad mini to fall short of demand in 4Q13 due to display supply constraints, says IHS
Supplies of Apple's second generation iPad mini are expected to fall well short of demand in the fourth quarter of 2013 due to limited production of the tablet's new Retina display,...
Friday 25 October 2013
EverFocus releases new Mini Fixed Dome and Mini PTz Dome Network Camera
EverFocus announced product release of their latest 1,2 MP IR & WDR Mini Fixed Dome Network Camera - EDN2160/2260, and 1,2 MP IR & WDR Mini PTz Dome Network Camera - ETN216...