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Tuesday 24 November 2015
Taiwan market: LG Electronics announces the availability of Nexus 5X
LG Electronics has announced the availability of Nexus 5X, a smartphone developed jointly with Google, in the Taiwan market, priced at NT$13,900 (US$428) for 16GB version and NT$16,900...
Monday 23 November 2015
Quanta, Wiwynn see more orders from server clients for 2016
Quanta Computer and Wiwynn, a server subsidiary of Wistron, are expected to land more cloud server orders from their clients in 2016 as Internet service providers are looking to reduce...
Friday 20 November 2015
Microsoft Dynamics AX delivers the power of the cloud to businesses
Microsoft has announced that the next release of its flagship ERP solution, Microsoft Dynamics AX, will be generally available in the first quarter of 2016. The new release, architected...
Friday 20 November 2015
Taiwan market: Huawei steps up marketing for smartphones
Huawei plans to double the number of retail outlets for promotion of its smartphones in the Taiwan market to 400 in 2016 from 200 currently, according to sources from local retail...
Friday 20 November 2015
Asustek sells 5 million smartphones in Indonesia
Asustek Computer launched ZenFone-series smartphones in the Indonesia market in 2014 and has cumulatively sold five million units, company CEO Jerry Shen said at an event to unveil...
Friday 20 November 2015
Kionix announces 6-axis accel-gyro combo sensors
Kionix has announced the mass production of its KXG03 6-axis accelerometer-gyroscope combo and the unveiling of two new flagship 6-axis accel-gyro combos: the KXG07 and the KXG08.
Friday 20 November 2015
Chunghwa Telecom, Advantech, HwaCom Systems cooperate to offer 4G-based ITS solution
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), industrial computing solution provider Advantech and information, network, telecom integration service provider HwaCom Systems on November 19 signed an MoU...
Friday 20 November 2015
Innodisk 3Q15 revenues and profits rise
Taiwan-based Innodisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products, has announced net profits of NT$176 million (US$5.41 million) on consolidated revenues of...
Friday 20 November 2015
Open bids for 2,500-2,600MHz bands increase to NT$18.66 billion on 3rd day, says NCC
Open-bids for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands available for 4G mobile communications, on November 19, resulted in total bidding prices of NT$18.66 billion (US$574 million), 29.58%...
Thursday 19 November 2015
Global tablet market – 3Q 2015
Global tablet shipments reached only 50.64 million units in the third quarter, up 9% from the second quarter, but still down sharply by 18% on year.
Thursday 19 November 2015
Emerging markets drive worldwide smartphone sales to 15.5% growth in 3Q15, says Gartner
Continued demand for affordable smartphones in emerging markets drove worldwide sales of smartphones in the third quarter of 2015, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones...
Thursday 19 November 2015
Imec partners with UEST to develop emergency-detecting wearables
Nano-electronics research center imec and UEST, a Belgian start-up company, have started the production of Zembro, a smart bracelet designed to enable the elderly to connect with...
Thursday 19 November 2015
Taiwan market: Samsung launches Galaxy J2
Samsung Electronics has launched a new entry-level smartphone, the Galaxy J2, in the Taiwan market priced at NT$4,280 (US$130) unlocked, targeting the younger generation.
Thursday 19 November 2015
Asustek assigns new head of R&D team
Asustek Computer has appointed its vice president Joe Hsieh to lead its R&D unit, the Da Vinci Laboratory, to focus on developing technology for Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry...
Thursday 19 November 2015
Smart bracelets to remain dominant in the 2016 wearables market but VR devices will become main growth driver, says TrendForce
The market for wearables has maintained a certain growth level in recent years, though device vendors have not experienced a boom in demand as they would hope. The total wearable...