The US Court of Appeals has overturned a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone, in a blow to Apple in the ongoing battle between the two rivals.

Amazon has confirmed it will not make a profit from sales of its latest Kindle tablet and e-reader devices.

Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd interim CFO has resigned from her post. Anlin Ting-Mason will stay on as CFO of Suntech America, however.

Consolidated revenues for the company are estimated at 52 trillion Korean won while operating profits were at 8.1 trillion won.

The US on Wednesday slapped steep final duties on billions of dollars of solar energy products from China, but turned down a request from lawmakers and US manufacturers to expand the scope of its order.

China demanded Thursday that Washington repeal steep tariffs on solar panels that China-based producers fear will shut their equipment out of the American market.

LG Australia is set to reveal later today a brand new 84-inch 4K TV that sets a new benchmark for TV viewing in Australia, with insiders tipping a "significantly" cheaper purchase price than the originally tipped US$20,000.

Flexible displays are not a new idea - they have been cited, times and again, in different design concepts. However, so far, we haven't seen a commercially available product which features a flexible display. Futaba may be planning to change this by showing off a watch with a flexible OLED screen.

On Saturday, there was an explosion and fire at Nippon Shokubai's [of Japan] superabsorbent polymer manufacturing facility, resulting in an outage that has taken down about 10% of the world's acrylic acid and 18% of the world's superabsorbent polymer capacity.

Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest plastics manufacturer and the sore supplier of acrylic acid (AA), superabsorbent polymers (SAP) and acrylic ester (AE), is expected to benefit from tight supply of diaper materials following the shutdown of Japan's Nippon Shokubai's Himeji plant that was hit by fire and explosion earlier.

When 3M started frankensteining its pico projectors into smartphones a few years ago as a proof of concept, it was novel, but really had no practical use in the real world. (Even for the enterprise world and its infinite powerpoint presentations). But seeing a projector built into Smart Devices' SmartQ U7 Android tablet has me full of ideas on how to use it.

The Indian tablet market sales (unit shipments) touch 0.55 million units in second quarter of 2012 recording a quarter-on-quarter increase of 59% and year-on-year increase of 673%, according to a survey conducted by CyberMedia Research.

About 18 months ago, I was one of the first to write about what I thought Amazon's business model would be for its tablet that launched last fall. I had heard from my sources in Taiwan that Amazon was looking at selling the tablet at cost or even below cost and then make up the profit through products and services offered to customers.

Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are set to go head to head in a unique battle for consumer's cash.

The 38th Taipei International Electronics Show, which will take place on Oct. 9-12, is estimated to draw around 50,000 buyers to strike deals up to US$350-400 million, up from last year's US$300 million, according to co-organizer Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA).

The two firms should be barred from any mergers and acquisitions in the US, the panel has recommended in its report.

At the 2012 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, industry and research experts named the timely development of a source suited for high-volume manufacturing as the most critical issue. Other challenges remain the development of yielding masks and the further development of high-quality EUV resists.

Tablet PC shipments are projected to exceed notebook PC shipments by 2016. According to NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim, the paradigm industry shift has prompted notebook PC manufacturers to adopt a number of key tablet features.

PCMag got the opportunity to preview the Acer Iconia W700-6465, and so far it's an interesting look into the future of computing.

The LCD backlight market experienced a fall in the price of LED chips and with the combined lower than expected demand for LCD televisions, globally, the LCD backlight market reported lower market value sales in 2012.

Sharp, a Japanese television maker cutting jobs and output to stanch losses, fell for a second day in Tokyo trading amid speculation slumping sales of displays will cause bigger-than-expected losses.

Delta Electronics was named recently as one of Taiwan's Top 20 Global Brands 2012, and was the only industrial brand among large electronics companies selected for two consecutive years.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) share in the 28nm contract chipmaking sector may drop from 80% to 50% next year on fierce competition from Samsung, according to research firm Topology.

A growing economy typically should see wages grow faster than inflation. This has been the case for most of Taiwan's peers: From 2000 to 2011, real wages - or wages minus inflation - rose an average of 3.8% a year in South Korea, 1.8% in Singapore and 0.8% in Hong Kong. But in Taiwan, workers' real salaries have actually seen zero growth in that time period.

Slowing growth in China and India has hit prospects across the rest of Asia and led the Asian Development Bank to make the biggest cut in its regional economic growth forecast since 2008, according to its chief economist.

The upcoming release of the iPad Mini raises the question of what it will do to Apple's profit margins.

Intel has announced some investment deals, including one in cloud storage outfit Box and another in the Chinese advertising outfit UUCun.