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Friday 28 April 2017
Ex-HTC executive launches startup to promote VR solutions
Former HTC North Asia president Jack Tong has announced the establishment of JPW International Technology, a startup to develop and promote VR (virtual reality) motion solutions and...
Thursday 27 April 2017
eCloudvalley-AWS leader in the greater China region
eCloudvalley is now the first company in the Greater China Region (GCR) to achieve Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner status, which is the highest standard attainable...
Thursday 27 April 2017
China market: Huawei recaptures top smartphone vendor ranking in 1Q17, says Canalys
After staying in the second place for two consecutive quarters, Huawei managed to move past rival Oppo to recapture the number one title in China's smartphone market in the first...
Thursday 27 April 2017
Taiwan market: More China vendors to follow Oppo to expand share in local smartphone market
Oppo's success in Taiwan's smartphone market is expected to encourage more China-based vendors to duplicate its strategy to penetrate into the local market, which may lead to a drastic...
Wednesday 26 April 2017
India market: Xiaomi facing increasing competition from Oppo, Vivo, says report
Xiaomi Technology is facing increasing competition from rival vendors Oppo and Vivo in India's smartphone market, according to a China-based tech.qq.com report.
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Meizu lowers smartphone shipment target for 2017, says paper
China-based smartphone vendor Meizu has lowered its shipment target for 2017 by 15% to 30 million units from 35 million set previously, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Wednesday 26 April 2017
HTC North Asia chief leaves company, says paper
Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia, has left the company for personal reasons, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Taiwan server makers see reshuffle of orders from Microsoft, Facebook, Google
For Taiwan-based makers of servers for direct sale to clients, there has been a reshuffle of orders for servers used in cloud computing data centers from Microsoft, Facebook and Google...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Micron, Microsoft announce collaboration
Micron Technology and Microsoft have announced a collaboration that aims to address the major challenge of providing trusted computing models for IoT deployments in industrial, automotive...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
China March mobile communication user base grows to 1.346 billion
There were 1.346 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of March 2017, increasing 0.59% on month and 4.07% on year, and 161.03 million (11.96%)...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Taiwan 1Q17 international Internet bandwidth stands at 2.095Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached total bandwidth of 2.095Tbps as of the end of the first quarter of 2017, increasing 1.38%...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Taiwan market: CHT expects significant revenues from IoT platform
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) is to promote its in-house developed IoT platform to the business sector and aims to generate revenues of over NT$10 billion (US$33.04 million) a year from...
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Android smartphones to continue to expand market share in 2017
Competition for market share between Apple's iOS system and Android OS will remain keen in 2017, particularly in the China market, due to new models introduced by Apple and vendors...
Monday 24 April 2017
Galaxy S8 materials costs highest by far compared to previous versions, IHS teardown reveals
The new Samsung Galaxy S8 equipped with 64 gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost that comes out to US$301.60, much higher than for previous versions...
Monday 24 April 2017
Advantech joins e-F@ctory Alliance to promote Industry 4.0
Industrial computing device maker Advantech has joined e-F@ctory Alliance established by Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric, in a bid to boost Industry 4.0-based automation of production...