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Friday 9 May 2014
Notebook vendor shipments see instability due to lack of panel access
Some notebook vendors' shipments are being affected due to lack of panel access as panel makers shift their production capacity to mobile and TV panels.
Friday 9 May 2014
Global tablet market – 1Q 2014
Tablet shipments reached 58.56 million in the first quarter of 2014, down 30% on quarter and up 4.6% on year, which came as a result of Samsung Electronics and Lenovo pushing their...
Friday 9 May 2014
Global Wi-Fi hotspots will grow to 7.1 million in 2015 as a method to offload traffic, says ABI Research
Worldwide Wi-Fi deployments reached a total of 4.2 million hotspots in 2013, and will continue to grow at a CAGR of 15% between 2013-2018, to exceed 10.5 million. Among the global...
Friday 9 May 2014
Pegatron expects sequential growth of up to 5% in 2Q14 notebook shipments
Pegatron expects ODM notebook shipments in the second quarter of 2014 to grow up to 5%, and motherboard and desktop shipments to decline 15-20%, company CEO Jason Cheng said at a May...
Friday 9 May 2014
Compal expects over 10% sequential growth in 2Q14 notebook shipment, says president
Compal Electronics shipped 8.9 million notebooks in the first quarter of 2014 and expects an on-quarter increase of over 10% in the second quarter, company president Ray Chen said...
Thursday 8 May 2014
Managing digital documents in the cloud by consolidating information from digital and paper sources
Demand for creating a paperless environment through document digitization has surged. However, Maggie Shu, Sales Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak Alaris Taiwan Ltd., has pointed out...
Thursday 8 May 2014
Analysis of the Development of Smart Disaster Prevention Services: The Disaster Prevention Center Plans to Establish a Common Information Sharing Platform
The earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011 in Japan triggered a subsequent tsunami as well as a nuclear power plant catastrophe. Typhoon Morakot, which struck Taiwan in 2009, passed...
Thursday 8 May 2014
Solving Urbanization Challenges and Demonstrating General Value with Smart City Development
The themes of the International Smart City Forum in 2014 included 4G, Internet of Things (IoT), and the aerotropolis. According to Ruey-Beei Wu, President, Institute for Information...
Thursday 8 May 2014
Bridge M2M alliance forms to aid multinational deployment in Asia, said IHS
With cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections in Asia expected to more than triple in the coming years, local wireless operators have banded together in a group dedicated to facilitating...
Thursday 8 May 2014
Asustek, Acer, Lenovo snatching notebook market share from Samsung and Sony in Europe
Asustek Computer, Acer and Lenovo are expected to see their notebook market shares in Europe grow as both Samsung Electronics and Sony are paying less attention on their notebook businesses,...
Thursday 8 May 2014
Digitimes Research: China smartphone application processor shipments to grow 13.6% sequentially in 2Q14
Shipments of smartphone application processors in the China market are expected to grow 13.6% sequentially and 10.9% on year in the second quarter of 2014, according to Digitimes R...
Wednesday 7 May 2014
China datacenter orders to be dominated by Taiwan server makers
As China's datacenter market is seeing rapid growth, first-tier server brand vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell are both aggressively trying to enter the industry. Since...
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Worldwide fiber-optic broadband subscriptions to double by 2019, says ABI Research
The worldwide cable, DSL and fiber-optic fixed-line broadband subscriber base grew 6% in 2013 surpassing 665.4 million subscribers. The fiber-optic broadband segment grew at a rate...
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Cisco proposes Internet of Everything to create new opportunities for smart city architectures
Although the IoT (Internet of Things) can serve as the foundation for the various services in a smart city, the surge in the number facilities, devices, and sensors that connect to...
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Vision 2020 - Wireless New Era, Wireless Smart City
The development of smart cities is one of the focuses for Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). This is because the success of the development lies closely in...