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Monday 2 September 2013
Large-screen smartphones overtake both tablet and portable PC shipments in Asia in 2Q13, says IDC
Smartphones with screen sizes of 5- to just under 7-inch, colloquially known as phablets, overtook shipments of each of the portable PC and tablet device categories in Asia Pacific...
Monday 2 September 2013
Digitimes Research: White-box tablet shipments suffer over 25% drop in 2Q13
White-box tablet shipments reached only 15.9 million units in the second quarter of 2013, down 26.3% sequentially due to weakening tablet demand in May and June. Many smaller white-box...
Monday 2 September 2013
Windows and BlackBerry face challenges to become 3rd-largest mobile OS ecosystem, says ABI Research
ABI Research's recent smartphone research shows Android accounted for 80% of all smartphones shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2013. The next largest ecosystem, Apple's iOS,...
Monday 2 September 2013
Akamai dominates cloud-oriented video delivery market, says ABI Research
Akamai has increased its market share of the cloud video service market serving media & entertainment companies to nearly 30% in early 2013, from about 27% in 2012, with no close...
Monday 2 September 2013
IP-Based Fieldbus Holds the Key to Smart Factory of Industry 4.0
The essence of Industry 4.0 lies in maximizing network coverage to streamline production and sales processes, facilitating information sharing and communication between the processes...
Friday 30 August 2013
Skyera adopts SK Hynix 16nm NAND flash for enterprise storage systems
Skyera has selected 16nm NAND flash from SK Hynix for use in its new skyEagle all-flash enterprise storage array, according to the provider of enterprise solid-state storage system...
Friday 30 August 2013
China market: International brands enhance feature phone offerings
While China's local handset makers have put all their efforts into grabbing a bigger slice of the smartphone market, international brands including Nokia and Samsung Electronics have...
Friday 30 August 2013
China MIIT representatives pay official visit to Foxconn
Liu Lihua, vice minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), led a group of China-based telecom companies including China Mobile on a trip to Taiwan,...
Friday 30 August 2013
Digitimes Research: China vendors ship 148 million smartphones in 1H13
China-based vendors shipped 148 million smartphones in the first half of 2013, of which 109 million units were delivered to the local market, according to Digitimes Research.
Friday 30 August 2013
India smartphone growth accelerates as large-screens take center stage in 2Q13, says IDC
India's smartphone market almost tripled in shipments on-year in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC.
Thursday 29 August 2013
TCL to start production of TD-LTE smartphones in September
China-based TCL Communication Technology Holdings aims to enhance its presence in China's smartphone market by ramping up the production of TD-LTE models starting September, according...
Thursday 29 August 2013
Worldwide Ethernet switch market declines 1.1% on year, while the router market grows 3.7%, says IDC
Worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) revenues reached US$5.4 billion in the second quarter of 2013, representing an on-year decline of 1.1%. On a sequential basis, second-quarter...
Thursday 29 August 2013
China market: Huawei Device launches outdoor smartphone
China-based vendor Huawei Device has unveiled the Ron Yue 3, an Android 4.2.2 outdoor smartphone, for launch in the China market on August 29 at a recommended retail price of CNY1,888...
Thursday 29 August 2013
China to start connectivity testing for TD-LTE devices
The China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will begin testing connectivity performance of TD-LTE terminal devices...
Thursday 29 August 2013
Epson to push automation products in Taiwan
Epson has been aggressively developing robot arm products, trying to expand in the industrial automation market. The company is the largest robot arm supplier in Taiwan with a 28%...