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Tuesday 4 December 2018
New product launches drive double-digit growth in wearable market, says IDC
Global shipments of wearable devices reached 32 million units in the third quarter of 2018, up 21.7% from the previous year, according to IDC.
Tuesday 4 December 2018
US tech control to have more impact on China than tariffs
The trade war between the world's two economic giants has lasted over a year since the US Trade Representative Office initiated in August 2017 a Section 301 investigation into imports...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
ATract to supply 4G LTE trackers to Canada power firm
GPS tracker device maker ATrack Technology has won a bid to supply its 4G LTE satellite positioning trackers to one of the top-three power companies in Canada with shipments to start...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Blockchain applications set to flourish by 2023, says NEM executive
The blockchain industry, though still at an infant stage of development, will see booming applications to a wide variety of fields in five years along with constant technological...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
CCL supplier Iteq expects demand from 5G sector to come in 1Q19
Copper-clad laminate (CCL) specialist Iteq expects demand for CCL products for 5G infrastructure to come in the first quarter of 2019 as telecom operators in China are likely to accelerate...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Quanta, Wiwynn see no impact from Intel CPU shortages on cloud server market
Although PC sales in the second half of 2018 have been seriously undermined by Intel's CPU shortages, the cloud computing server market has been little affected, with Quanta Computer...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
HTC launches upgraded version of U12 life for mid-tier segment
HTC has teamed up with Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) to launch an upgraded version of its HTC U12 life in Taiwan aiming to ramp up its smartphone sales during the year-end...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Huawei, Xiaomi to see robust smartphone shipment growth in 2019
China-based smartphone vendors Huawei and Xiaomi expect their smartphone sales to continue to grow robustly in 2019, while Oppo and Vivo are more conservative about their prospects...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
AWS turning off Oracle to support own Redshift
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to have some 90% of its Oracle databases moved to its own data warehouse Redshift by the end of 2018 after having removed Amazon's consumer business...
Monday 3 December 2018
IBM ready to embrace upcoming Bank 4.0 era
IBM is ready for the advent of the Bank 4.0 era by providing banks with system integration and solutions to help them further accelerate banking automation to better offer mobile...
Monday 3 December 2018
Optical module maker sees strong growth momentum in next 3-5 years
Optical communication products maker EZconn expects the arrival of the 5G era will help maintain its sales momentum in the next 3-5 years, as significantly more base stations will...
Friday 30 November 2018
Demand for 100G/400G switches may take off in 2019 on datacenter upgrades
Demand for 100G/400G switches are expected to take off in 2019, earlier than expected, along with increasing hyper-scale datacenter establishments, prompting Taiwan-based PCL Technologies,...
Friday 30 November 2018
Cloud segment to surpass 25% of enterprise video solutions market by 2023, says ABI Research
The enterprise video solutions market will reach US$49 billion by 2023, according ABI Research. While changes in viewer behavior and the shift from on-prem hardware to cloud services...
Friday 30 November 2018
Asus Life to offer smart medical care solution for dementia patients
Asus Life, a subsidiary of Asustek Computer, willl cooperate with Taipei's city-run hospitals to offer a smart medical care solution to jointly take care of old people suffering de...
Friday 30 November 2018
Taiwan 3Q18 international Internet bandwidth over 2,352Gbps
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached total bandwidth of 2,352.583Gbps in third-quarter 2018, decreasing 2.36% sequentially...