Category: TECHNOLOGY

In China’s bureaucratic circles, a summit like the weekend’s meeting with the US secretary of state might be referred to as “win-win”. In US diplomatic circles it’s… now also apparently known as that, too. Rex Tillerson wrapped up two days of ... ( read original story ...)

Local telecoms regulator the National Communications Commission (NCC) has confirmed that no cellco has indicated an intention to offer services over a shared GSM network, which Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) had volunteered to operate after 2G licences expire ... ( read original story ...)

LG Electronics has launched four smartphones, the LG Stylus 3, LG K10, K8 and K4, in the Taiwan market, targeting the entry-level to mid-tier segment. These new phones will be available starting April. The 5.7-inch LG Stylus 3 is priced at NT$7,990 (US$260 ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), a global leader in advanced semiconductor systems, today announced that on March 14 it successfully won the auction for Cando Corporation assets, which will be ... ( read original story ...)

Shipments of smartphones in the Taiwan market decreased 18% on year to 8.74 million units in 2016, the first year-on-year decline in Taiwan's smartphone market, according to data compiled by IDC. Saturating market conditions, narrowing differences between ... ( read original story ...)

An industry source familiar with the matter said TSMC was deeply interested in the Toshiba unit. (Reporting by Jess Macy Yu and J.R. Wu in Taipei; Editing by Himani Sarkar) ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI -- Undeterred by the widely reported explosion of several Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, Taiwan's consumers have demonstrated a preference for the South Korean firm's smartphone models over other brands, making Samsung the largest smartphone ... ( read original story ...)

Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM) has been on a roll over the last several years, bringing out new manufacturing technologies and subsequent enhancements thereof like clockwork. That pace of innovation has been one ... ( read original story ...)

HTC has launched two smartphones at the CES 2017, but a post on the company's Taiwanese Facebook Page is giving a serious hint that HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play aren't the only two handsets that it intends to introduce this year. The teaser posted by the ... ( read original story ...)

Huawei also plans to strengthen its presence in the NT$5,000-10,000 segment to ramp up the popularity of Huawei' smartphones in Taiwan, while aiming a 2-fold increase of its smartphone shipments in the local market in 2017, Tsao said. Buoyed by improved ... ( read original story ...)

Sony Mobile Communications has unveiled four new smartphones in the Taiwan market, including the flagship Xperia XZs and XZ Premium, and mid-range Xperia XA1 and XA1 Ultra. Among them, the Xperia XZs and Xperia XA1 will be available in the local market in ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei, Taiwan - Mar. 14, 2017 - ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash products, today launched industrial-grade ISDD361 SD cards. The cards employ meticulously-sorted and tested SLC NAND flash ... ( read original story ...)

Citing data from comScore MobiLens on the U.S. smartphone market share trends, the report said that Samsung of South Korea followed, with a 28 percent market share. Taiwan's HTC ranked fifth at 2.3 percent, lagging behind LG of South Korea at 10.3 percent ... ( read original story ...)

The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, HTC launched the U Ultra and U Play smartphones in January. Both these smartphones come with USB Type-C port and skip the 3.5mm Audio port. However, the HTC 10 Evo (a.k.a HTC Bolt) is the first smartphone from this ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING -- China's minister of industry and information technology on Saturday urged Taiwan to be more open to mainland investment. He said this would strengthen ties and put the two sides on a path toward unification. "We are very open to investment from ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei, March 10 (CNA) Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau and Indonesian police busted a telecom fraud ring, headed by Taiwanese men in Jakarta, in a joint operation on Thursday. Two suspects, believed to be ringleaders and identified only by their ... ( read original story ...)