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Wednesday 26 July 2017
Taiwan market: Smartphone sales rebound in June
Shipments of smartphones in the Taiwan market staged a rebound in June, with shipment volume reaching 630,000 units, an increase of 4.3% from the previous month and 3.28% from a year...
Friday 21 July 2017
Demand for 3-axis stabilizers spurred by live webcast spree
The increasing popularity of live streaming services on social networking sites and online video platforms has prompted mobile phone vendors to keep upgrading the photographing performance...
Monday 17 July 2017
HTC upgrades U11 to support Alexa voice service
HTC has tied up with Amazon and optimized its latest flagship smartphone the HTC U11 to support Alexa voice service, making the model the world's first Alexa-enabled smartphone, according...
Friday 14 July 2017
Taiwan market: Vivo to enter local smartphone market in 4Q17
China-based smartphone vendor Vivo reportedly will enter Taiwan's smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2017, a move which will push it to take on not only fellow China-based...
Thursday 13 July 2017
Nichia wins lawsuit against WOFI, sues HTC regarding patent infringement in Germany
The District Court of Dusseldorf in Germany has judged that WOFI Leuchten Wortmann & Filz GmbH, a residential lighting subsidiary of Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider...
Monday 10 July 2017
HTC ties up with Volkswagen to develop VR applications
HTC has teamed up with Volkswagen to develop VR (virtual reality) solutions and applications for internal production and logistics operations of the German-based automaker, according...
Friday 7 July 2017
HTC June revenues rise on brisk sales of U11 smartphones
Brisk sales of the HTC U11 series smartphones buoyed revenues at HTC in June, which climbed to the highest for 2017 at NT$6.89 billion (US$225.2 million). The monthly figures represented...
Friday 7 July 2017
HTC investigating smartphone fire incident in France
High Tech Computer (HTC) has commented on a couple reports that its smartphones has spontaneously caught fire in Taiwan and France, saying it is cooperating with third-party investigations...
Monday 3 July 2017
Digitimes Research: Computex 2017 keeps VR/AR momentum going
The global VR/AR campaigns that began in 2016 continued into the recently concluded Computex 2017, highlighted by a slew of VR devices for high-end business applications, VR backpacks...
Thursday 29 June 2017
MWC Shanghai 2017: HTC aims to cut a major chunk of China VR market
HTC is highlighting its Viveport platform as well as setting up a VR arcade zone to demonstrate its HTC Vive and VR platforms for gaming, entertainment, medical/health care, education...
Wednesday 28 June 2017
HTC gains powerful VR development support from Apple, Google
HTC is gaining powerful support to accelerate the development of its VR (virtual reality) business, as it has newly collaborated with two tech giants Apple and Google to develop VR...
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Global VR investments in 1H17 exceed those in 2016, says HTC executive
Global investments in the VR industry in the first half of 2017 already exceeded the total amount injected in 2016, according to Alvin Wang Graylin, president of HTC Vive Greater...
Friday 16 June 2017
Sales of HTC U11 better than expected
Sales of HTC's new flagship smartphone, the HTC U11, have been better than expected since its launch in May, with shortages in some markets unable to be fulfilled until early July,...
Thursday 15 June 2017
HTC ties up with Bandai Namco to promote VR activities
HTC has announced that that its Vive has been chosen to lead VR activities at VR Zone Shinjuku, the largest VR location built by Bandai Namco Entertainment in Japan.
Monday 12 June 2017
HTC adds new content to Viveport platform
HTC recently added 76 new titles onto its Viveport, the app store for its Vive head-mounted display (HMD) VR devices, bring the total number of content to over 150, according to the...