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Monday 8 July 2013
Taiwan component makers worried about drops in Samsung global smartphone market share
Samsung Electronics, currently the world's largest smartphone vendor, has continually downwardly adjusted its shipment targets by 10-20% during the past two quarters, causing Taiwan-based...
Monday 8 July 2013
Mobile device shipments grow 9.7% on year in Japan in 1Q13, says IDC
Total shipments of mobile devices, including PCs, smartphones, tablets, e-book readers and data communications (including mobile cards and personal routers), in Japan totaled 13.6...
Monday 8 July 2013
Full review: Advantech's tiny ARK-1122 industrial Box PC
IPC stands for Industrial PC, a kind of device that brings computing power into all the numerous areas where it's needed, but where deploying a consumer-grade laptop or desktop simply...
Monday 8 July 2013
Foxconn pushes FoxKPC for the industrial control application market
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is showcasing its new FoxKPC series products through a subsidiary at KE Show 2013 in Kunshan, China. The FoxKPC product line will...
Monday 8 July 2013
Taiwan makers shift LTE focus from data devices to smartphones
Taiwan-based networking/communication device makers originally expected shipments of 8-10 million LTE data terminal devices in 2013 but have seen far lower than expected order volumes...
Monday 8 July 2013
Taiwan 100Mbps Internet-access deployment, cable TV digitization in 2013 short of targets, says NCC
The Taiwan government originally aimed to have all households covered by a 100Mbps fiber-optic broadband Internet-access network, and to digitize cable TV networks to cover 50% of...
Monday 8 July 2013
HTC 2Q13 performance meets guidance
HTC has reported revenues of NT$22.08 billion (US$735 million) for June, down 23.9% sequentially and 26.4% on year. Second-quarter revenues amounted to NT$70.7 billion, meeting the...
Friday 5 July 2013
Taiwan market: HTC maintains top smartphone vendor ranking in May
HTC maintained its title as the top smartphone vendor in the Taiwan market with a 36.9% share in terms of sales value in May compared to 30.6% in April, according to data compiled...
Friday 5 July 2013
Samsung expects record operating profits in 2Q13, but misses market expectations
Samsung Electronics expects to report record operating profits for the second quarter of 2013, but its guidance figures are well below market expectations.
Friday 5 July 2013
Vibo Telecom expands paid-in capital by over 21%
Vibo Telecom, one of the four 3G mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, has expanded its paid-in capital by 21.11% from NT$11.84 billion (US$393 million) to NT$14.34 billion through issuing...
Thursday 4 July 2013
China smartphone vendors to foray into tablet segment
China-based smartphone vendors, including Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and Xiaomi Technology, all will step up their efforts to penetrate the tablet market, according to industry sources.
Thursday 4 July 2013
Taiwan market: Keen competition expected for 4G
There are seven applicants competing for 4G mobile communication licenses in Taiwan. If all of them receive the license, none of them will obtain sufficient bandwidth to provide satisfactory...
Wednesday 3 July 2013
ASE, SPIL 3Q13 sales to be affected by slower sales of Galaxy S4
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) are expected to see their sales for the third quarter of 2013 affected by reduced orders from...
Wednesday 3 July 2013
China white-box vendor introduces ultra-thin smartphone
China-based white-box smartphone vendor UMeox Mobile has joined the world's ultra-thin smartphone market by introducing its UMeox X5, which has a thickness of only 5.6mm.
Tuesday 2 July 2013
Even at US$20, Nokia 105 proves profitable for Nokia, says IHS
With its ultra-low-cost handset (ULCH) designated as the Nokia 105, Nokia has shown how it can be done: by sticking to a limited set of features and employing a highly integrated...