Category: TECHNOLOGY

In December 2016, Taiwanese smartphone-maker HTC released Android 7.0 Nougat to HTC 10, One M9 and just a few days ago, it was made available to the One A9 series in the US. Now, the company is all set to expand the rollout process in Europe and Asia. ( read original story ...)

... to launch its next-generation ZenFone 4-series smartphones in May and aims to ship over 20 million smartphone in 2017, according to sources from Taiwan's handset supply chain. The ZenFone 4 family products will come with hardware specifications higher ... ( read original story ...)

in particular smartphone camera lens supplier Largan Precision Co. (大立光), staged a technical rebound from a slump in the previous session, lending support to the broader market throughout the day, they said. The weighted index on the Taiwan Stock ... ( read original story ...)

Sony Mobile managed to increase their presence in the high-end Android smartphone market in Taiwan, a recent report shows. Over the course of 2016, the company reportedly seized a total of 35% of the Taiwanese market for phones worth $475 or more. ( read original story ...)

The change from telecom-owned market to a software-owned market happened ... and currently does these five things to help companies succeed. He is based in Taipei, Taiwan. You can email him at e@e15v.com. If you enjoyed reading this, please click the ... ( read original story ...)

And since 1979 the United States has maintained official diplomatic relations only with Beijing, even though it pursued unofficial ties with Taipei. China and Taiwan ... broad range of financial services, plus telecommunications, the internet, culture ... ( read original story ...)

When he created the VR Taipei meetup group on Meetup.com, he wanted to promote virtual reality (VR) in Taiwan by bringing together people who shared an interest in the up-and-coming technology. “I just saw that Taipei had all of this talent,” he said. ( read original story ...)

A while back, DigiTimes reported that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM), a major contract chip manufacturer, planned to introduce an enhanced variant of its 16nm manufacturing technology dubbed "12nm." On the chipmaker's most recent ... ( read original story ...)

Sony Mobile Communications saw its share in the over NT$15,000 (US$475) segment of the Android smartphone market in Taiwan increase to 35% in 2016 from 24% of a year earlier, according to a Chinese-language media report, citing Jonathan Lin, general ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei and San Jose, CA – Businesses throughout Taiwan can now accelerate their adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and deliver new connected experiences to their customers, thanks to Asia Pacific Telecom and Cisco. Asia Pacific Telecom today ... ( read original story ...)

MediaTek Inc successfully concluded its "Smartphone Design Training Program" created to accelerate the "Make in India" initiative. MediaTek has developed the training program to foster and educate talent for India's fast-growing handset industry by sharing ... ( read original story ...)

featuring Precise Biometrics and Fingerprint Cards technology. This is the first announcement of the year from the identity authentication firm, while it is underway acquiring NexID Biometrics, a spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions provider ... ( read original story ...)

Alexander Huang, a professor at Taiwan’s Tamkang University, said the choice to visit Twitter during the stopover did seem symbolic for a government with few outlets for official diplomacy. “Modern technology will enable a lot of new ways of ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI Taiwan's Powertech Technology Inc (6239.TW) said Friday it was terminating a share agreement with China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd, unraveling more than $2 billion in deal-making that the state-run Chinese giant had hoped to seal on the island. ( read original story ...)

Chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), aka TSMC ... "Due to stronger demand for TSMC's 16-nanometer technology and a more favorable exchange rate than our original forecast, fourth-quarter revenue surpassed the high-end of our guidance ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI: The chief of Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker ... a normally slower period for the technology sector, but remained conservative in their outlook. "It really comes from the seasonality of our customers in the mobile area ... ( read original story ...)