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Thursday 16 August 2012
HTC lacks brand marketing, CEO says in memo to company
HTC has been facing operating challenges. Company CEO Peter Chou indicated that problems such as lack of brand marketing, cross-department communication and execution have been causing...
Thursday 16 August 2012
Quanta aiming to move all notebook production lines to Chongqing by 2014
Quanta Computer is aiming to move all its notebook production lines except those for Apple's products to Chongqing, China within two years and estimates that its notebook shipments...
Thursday 16 August 2012
Rumored US$199 price for Windows RT Surface expected to squeeze PC vendors out of the market
As Microsoft is reportedly considering selling its Windows RT-based Surface tablet PC at US$199, sources from notebook players are concerned that if the rumor is true, notebook brand...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Apple sees share of tablet market hit more than one-year high in 2Q12
Two years after creating the market, Apple holds the top spot with tablets, with its global market share rising to nearly 70% in the second quarter, putting the company on pace to...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Liteonmobile expects to return to profitability in 4Q12
Liteonmobile, a subsidiary of the Lite-On Group, is expected to see third-quarter 2012 revenues be lower than the second quarter. Nevertheless, the firm expects to add a new mobile...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
China turns out over 621 million handsets in January-July
Makers in China produced 621.021 million handsets in total during January-July 2012, growing 3.4% on year, according to statistics published on August 15 by the Ministry of Industry...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Apple and Samsung remain top consumer and mobile MEMS buyers, IHS finds
Apple and Samsung Electronics remained the two largest buyers of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices for consumer and mobile applications in 2011, according to IHS iSuppl...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Acer ranks first in 2Q12 notebook shipments, says Gartner
Acer topped the notebook market shipping 7.567 million units in the global market during the second quarter of 2012, according to Gartner.
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Taiwan TV vendors continue to benefit from energy subsidies
Taiwan-based TV vendors Teco and Sampo have reported increased LCD TV sales in July and will continue to see increases throughout August due to energy-saving subsidies issued by the...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Global flat panel TV shipments return to growth in 2Q12; Samsung stays on top of LCD market, says IHS
Following a 30% drop during the first three months of 2012, worldwide shipments of flat panel televisions returned to growth in the second quarter, according to HIS. Worldwide shipments...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Cybermart to remodel chain stores in China
Cybermart Worldwide, a Foxconn Group company which operate the 3C retail chain Cybermart in China, has been remodeling 34 existing outlets around the country into store complexes...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Huawei flagship TD-SCDMA smartphone uses Spreadtrum solution
Spreadtrum Communications has announced that its baseband modem, the SC8803G, is shipping in Huawei's flagship TD-SCDMA smartphone. Developed for China Mobile's network, the Huawei...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Ability and Altek to see DSC shipments drop in 3Q12
Taiwan-based digital still camera (DSC) makers Ability Enterprise and Altek are both expected to see a shipment drop in the third quarter of 2012, affected by demand being replaced...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
China market: HTC-like device sold for less than CNY1,000
A number of smartphones resembling HTC handsets have been developed by China's white-box handset makers and are being priced at as low as less than CNY1,000 (US$157), according to...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
HP to outsource more than 50% of 2013 orders to Quanta
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has just recently finished its request for quotation (RFQ) for 2013 notebook orders with Quanta Computer landing more than 50% of the orders, up from only 40%...