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Wednesday 26 June 2013
Digitimes Research: China 3G service subscribers to top 300 million in 1H13
The number of 3G service subscribers in China is expected to top 322 million by the end of the first half of 2013, representing a penetration rate of 27.1%. Meanwhile, sales of smartphones...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
China market: High inventories at leading smartphone vendors may cause price war
China-based telecom carriers reportedly have reduced their marketing efforts to promote sales of smartphones after reaching their operating targets for the first half of 2013, causing...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Mobile devices to consume more DRAM than traditional PCs in 2015, says IHS
For a generation now, the PC and DRAM industries have been tied together as tightly as the automotive and crude oil businesses. However, in a telling sign of the arrival of the post-PC...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Western European mobile phone market declines in 1Q13, driven by smartphone slowdown, says IDC
The Western European mobile phone market shrank in the first quarter of 2013 due to a lower than expected slowdown in the smartphone shipments, according to IDC. Total shipments dropped...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
China produced over 558 million handsets in January-May, says MIIT
Makers in China produced 558.322 million handsets during January-May 2013, increasing 22% on year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Tuesday 25 June 2013
China market: Sony Mobile unveils 3 new Xperia smartphones in Shanghai
Sony Mobile Communications has unveiled three new Xperia family smartphones, the Xperia Z Ultra, Xperia C and Xperia SP, in Shanghai. The Xperia C, outsourced to Arima Communications,...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
HP to keep cultivating China market
Hewlett-Packard (HP), since it entered the China market in 1985, has established operating facilities which are capable of providing products and services globally and will continue...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Compal Communications 2013 smartphone shipment goal remains unchanged
Compal Communications' goal of shipping 10 million smartphones in 2013 remains unchanged although shipments in the first half of the year were lower than expected, according to company...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Mitac International to transform into holding firm
Mitac International, a Taiwan-based maker of IT products and GPS navigation devices for ODM clients and own-brand sale, will be transformed into Mitac Investment Holding through conversion...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Intel to compete for smart traffic system orders from China government
Intel has recently formed cooperation agreement with China-based embedded device maker SBS Science & Technology in Shenzhen, China to compete for smart traffic system orders offered...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Worldwide PC, tablet and mobile phone shipments to grow 5.9% in 2013, says Gartner
Worldwide devices (the combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to reach 2.35 billion units in 2013, a 5.9% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. The...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
China May mobile phone user base growing to 1.165 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.165 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of May 2013, growing by 0.88% on month and by 11.96% on year, and 303.37 million (26.12%)...
Monday 24 June 2013
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom expects to attain 3.6 million mobile Internet-access subscribers by end of 2013
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) saw the number of its mobile Internet-access subscribers increase to 3.0 million at the end of May 2013 and expects the number to steadily rise to 3.6 million...
Monday 24 June 2013
Quanta targets 3S as the new business directions
Quanta Computer is targeting the 3S - software, system and solution - as the company's new business directions for the future and is set to bring the revenue contribution of its notebook...
Monday 24 June 2013
Arima Communications expected to see smartphone shipments, revenues in 2013 grow by 10%, over 30%
Taiwan-based smartphone ODM Arima Communications is expected to have smartphone shipments in 2013 increasing from 2012 by 10% and the corresponding consolidated revenues by over 30%...