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Sunday 31 October 2010
Netbook shipments of Taiwan-based vendors from 2007-2010
Netbooks are low-cost notebooks with screen sizes below 10-inch mainly designed for Internet usage. Devices adopt either a solid state drive (SSD) or traditional hard drive and typically...
Monday 27 September 2010
Canonical to expand cooperation with Taiwan PC makers; launching new OS next month
Canonical, the designer of Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, is preparing to host a hardware summit in Taiwan and is hoping the event will help open the door for cooperation with...
Wednesday 4 August 2010
LiMo frustrated, may have to merge with Linux Foundation, say Taiwan handset makers
As Vodafone has decided to forgo the planned launch of the LiMo-based 360 H2 and will not offer any LiMo handsets, the future development of LiMo has turned pessimistic and the best...
Thursday 24 June 2010
Virage Logic unveils major GNU and Linux toolchain updates for ARC CPU cores
Virage Logic has announced it is investing in its ARC processor product portfolio by releasing the ARC GNU 2.3 Toolchain for its complete range of ARC processor cores and the ARC...
Friday 4 June 2010
Linaro formed to push Linux on ARM
ARM and five system-on-chip (SoC) vendors - Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments (TI) - have jointly announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit...
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Growth of Linux-based smartphone shipments will outstrip growth of smartphone market in 2010, says ABI
The number of recent Linux-oriented initiatives in the mobile industry demonstrates that Linux will be a key technology in the next generation of mobile devices, according to ABI...
Tuesday 27 April 2010
KatDC eyeing demand for Android/Linux-based software solutions embedded in consumer electronics
KatDC, a Taiwan-based developer of embedded IP multimedia software solutions based on Android or Linux and user interfaces for use in home-use and portable consumer electronics, is...
Friday 4 December 2009
Vendors to launch Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010
Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo and even Micro-Star International (MSI), which originally planned to launch in December, are all set to launch their Atom N450-based netbooks on January...
Thursday 20 August 2009
Garmin-Asus to enter China market by end of 2009; aims to sell one million handsets globally in 2010
Garmin-Asus dual-brand handsets will enter the China market by the end of 2009, targeting retail channel initially before tying up with telecom carriers, according to Benson Lin,...
Monday 27 July 2009
Taiwan market: Garmin-Asus to start marketing Nuvifone G60, says paper
The dual-branded Garmin-Asus Linux-based Nuvifone G60 handset will be available in the Taiwan market starting in the last week of July 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Tuesday 7 July 2009
Commentary: Nokia says no to Android, but may look to Linux
While acknowledging that Nokia has denied that it is working on Android-based smartphone, sources from Taiwan's handset industry still believe that the world's number one handset...
Wednesday 24 June 2009
Intel and Nokia team up for new mobile platform
Intel and Nokia on June 23 announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine...
Thursday 21 May 2009
Intel working with Broadcom to enhance HD decoding in Pine Trail
Intel is working with chipmaker Broadcom to enhance the HD decoding capabilities in its next-generation netbook platform (Pine Trail), according to sources at notebook makers.
Tuesday 14 April 2009
The down economy could give alternative netbook OSes a hand up, says ABI Research
Cash-strapped consumers and an economy in recession are bad news for sales of most products, but that may not apply to netbooks, according to ABI Research. Several characteristics...
Monday 30 March 2009
Novell sets up Taiwan netbook Linux R&D team
US-based Novell has established an R&D team specifically for developing Linux operating systems for use in netbook PCs, according to Novell Taiwan.