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Friday 26 July 2013
PCs are not dying, just continuing to evolve
News regarding the demise of the PC has been greatly exaggerated. According to statistics, the majority of networked and non-networked consumer applications still run on a PC. It...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Acer, Asustek actively marketing cloud computing solutions
Acer and Asustek have been pushing forward in marketing hardware/software-integrated cloud computing solutions focusing on educational applications and web storage, respectively,...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Mobile connected devices drive CE industry; resurgence in auto, audio, TV segments, finds CEA forecast
Mobile connected devices, including smartphones and tablets, continue to drive consumer electronics (CE) industry sales, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). CEA...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Tencent Holdings to invest US$2 billion in Xiaomi, says paper
China-based Tencent Holdings, which runs one of the largest web portals in China, QQ.com, reportedly plans to commit an investment of US$2 billion into China-based smartphone vendor...
Thursday 25 July 2013
NFC, MEMS sensors, and gesture recognition the big smartphone differentiators in 2013, says ABI Research
Accelerometers, vision-based gesture recognition, gyroscopes, and NFC are predicted to be the feature set big winners in smartphones in 2013, according to ABI Research. "Gesture...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Robust traffic spurs demand for 3G/4G gateways; market to reach US$1.8 billion in 2013, says ABI Research
ABI Research has found that the overall 2012 wireless network equipment market was quite challenging for infrastructure vendors, but the incessant demand for 3G and 4G mobile broadband...
Thursday 25 July 2013
LG not ready to outsource smartphone production despite growing shipments, say sources
LG Electronics appears to be unlikely to release its smartphone orders to Taiwan-based ODMs in the short term despite its growing smartphone shipments, according to sources at Taiwan's...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Taiwan market: FTC gives green light to FET acquisition of Hiiir
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on July 24 approved the acquisition of an 80% stake in Hiiir, a provider of mobile application and advertising services in the Taiwan market,...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Cellphone gray market goes legit as sales continue to decline, says IHS
The gray market for cellphones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12% as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to...
Wednesday 24 July 2013
HDI board production utilization to stay high in 2H13
PCB makers' utilization rates for HDI boards, particularly any-layer HDI boards, will remain high despite recent speculation suggesting weaker-than-expected demand for high-end smartphones,...
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Small cells market returns to growth after lackluster 2011 and 2012, says ABI Research
ABI Research's latest forecasts for Indoor Small Cells, which are also referred to as Enterprise and Consumer Femtocells, predicts a return to growth after lackluster 2011 and 2012,...
Wednesday 24 July 2013
TD-LTE and LTE-Advanced to account for more than half of LTE installed Macro base stations by 2015, says ABI Research
With the first service providers, such as SK Telecom, now upgrading their networks to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and China Mobile deploying a TD-LTE network and issuing a huge tender for...
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Smartphone shipments grow 6.6% in 2Q13, says TrendForce
According to research firm TrendForce, smartphone shipments during the second quarter of 2013 reached 221 million units, up 6.6% on quarter and up 31.4% on year. For 2013, worldwide...
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Apple shifts touch sensor structures toward in-cell in mobile phones, film in tablets, says DisplaySearch
Apple's adoption of two new touch sensor structures, in-cell for the iPhone 5 and GF2 (double-sided ITO film) for the iPad, has produced shifts in the touch-panel industry supply...
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 2H13 handset shipments to rise 30.3% sequentially
Taiwan-based ODMs, OBMs (own-brand manufacturers) and JDMs (joint-design manufacturers) will ship 36.39 million handsets in the second half of 2013, increasing 30.3% from the first...