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Tuesday 1 October 2013
Significant IT security investments drive double-digit growth in MEA security appliance market, says IDC
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) security appliance market recorded on-year growth in both customer revenues and shipments during the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. IDC...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
More handset ODMs likely to become targets for acquisition
Taiwan-based handset ODMs including Arima Communications, Wistron NeWeb and FIH Mobile are likely to be the targets for acquisition after Compal Electronics announced its plans to...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
IPC firms aggressive about listing
Taiwan-based Industrial PC (IPC) firms have been aggressively applying for listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) with PEC, Aewin and AIC set to be listed in the fourth quarter...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Wearable wireless device revenues to exceed US$6 billion in 2018, says ABI Research
Wearable wireless device revenues will grow to exceed US$6 billion in 2018. Of the four segments tracked, sports, fitness and wellness is the largest, never dropping below 50% share...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom cloud surveillance services adopted by local government
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has disclosed its rental cloud computing-based surveillance system has been adopted by the government of Taoyuan County, northern Taiwan, to monitor traffic...
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Intelligent and Interactive Digital Signage Spurs Retail Sales Boom
In the past, digital signage only provided one-way information playback. As technological development and Internet of Things (IoT) have advanced the graphics and sensing technology,...
Monday 30 September 2013
Compal Electronics to absorb Compal Communications
Taiwan-based notebook ODM Compal Electronics will acquire as much as 100% of the circulating shares of smartphone ODM Compal Communications at NT$50.80 (US$1.71) per share and then...
Monday 30 September 2013
3S to start shipping MEMS microphone chips to Taiwan handset ODMs in 1Q14
IC design house Solid State System (3S) with its MEMS microphone chips has entered the supply chain of Taiwan's major handset ODMs, with shipments to kick off in the first quarter...
Monday 30 September 2013
TSMC to cover 60-70% of Apple A8 chip production, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will handle the majority of the manufacturing for Apple's next-generation A8 processors, and the remainder will go to Samsung Electronics,...
Monday 30 September 2013
Sony Mobile aims to ship 65 million smartphones in fiscal 2014
Sony Mobile Communications aims to ship 65 million smartphones in its fiscal year 2014 (April 2014-March 2015), up 55% from the 42 million units projected for the current fiscal year,...
Monday 30 September 2013
Japan public IT cloud services spending to reach JPY300 billion by 2017, says IDC
IDC recently published a study that finds the Japan public IT cloud services market to have grown 45% on year to JPY90 billion (US$919.16 million) in 2012. IDC forecasts the Japan...
Monday 30 September 2013
Android ecosystem takes the baton from Apple iPad in the tablet race, says ABI Research
A shift in leadership is now upon the tablet mobile computing market. At the year's mid-point, ABI Research identified a trio of events signaling Apple's iPad family of products has...
Monday 30 September 2013
Taiwan 4G auction: Highest for C5 band unit rises to 6.8 times floor price
In an ongoing multiple-round auction for 12 frequency band units available for 4G licenses in Taiwan, the highest temporary bid for the 30MHz-bandwidth C5 band unit (1755-1770MHz...
Monday 30 September 2013
HTC sells back holdings in Beats
HTC has signed an agreement to sell back to Beats Electronics its holdings of a 24.84% share in the US-based audio solution provider for US$265 million, according to a company announcement...
Friday 27 September 2013
Taiwan 4G auction: Highest bid so far for C5 band unit is 6.4 times floor price
An ongoing multiple-round auction for 4G mobile communication services licenses in Taiwan has seen the highest temporary bid for 30MHz-bandwidth C5 band unit (1755-1770MHz for upload;...