Category: TECHNOLOGY

Taiwan’s factories play a major role in the global technology supply chain, Reuters reported. Full-year 2018 growth was raised to 2.42% from 2.29% forecast in November. Fourth-quarter gross domestic product in 2017 was kept at 3.28%, the same as ... ( read original story ...)

Microsoft is also leveraging its technology to help other organisations improve their energy efficiency. Taiwan’s state operated power company, Taipower, is considering ways to improve transmission system efficiency and enhance grid technology. ( read original story ...)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new Direct Connect site in Paris, at Equinix PA3, and has also launched its first Direct Connect site in Taiwan, located in the capital Taipei at Chief Telecom LY. Using Direct Connect, customers can establish a ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) Chang Chia-lin (張嘉臨) resigned on Wednesday as president of Taiwan-based HTC Corp's Smartphone and Connected Devices Business, at a time when the Taiwanese smartphone brand is struggling against stiff global competition. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest ... Other strong performers included Nanya Technology, a key dynamic random access memory chipmaker, which saw revenue jump more than 51% last month from January 2017, and leading industrial ... ( read original story ...)

China-based smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi Technology have strengthened their marketing efforts in Taiwan aiming to further ramp up their share in the local market, according to industry sources. Buoyed by its well-established ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan relies on its main ally the US as its biggest arms supplier, but President Tsai Ing-wen has been pushing to strengthen its own military equipment technology and manufacturing capabilities since she came to power in May 2016. The biggest threat to ... ( read original story ...)

One such initiative is being spearheaded by the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), a science and technology centre of over a thousand hectares situated in the south of the country established in 1997 as part of Taiwan’s Economic Revitalization Project. ( read original story ...)

Nokia has signed MoU agreements with a number of telecom operators in Taiwan calling for collaborating efforts to accelerate their 5G deployments while further enhancing related 4G applications, according to Michael Shieh, vice president of Nokia Greater ... ( read original story ...)

Ginger Chang of the Taiwan Design Centre, which promotes local designers and brands, said the industrial look featuring cement, brass, aluminum and granite is increasingly popular as an interior design trend on the island. “The public like fresh things ... ( read original story ...)

ARRIS International will sell its customer premises equipment manufacturing facility in New Taipei City, Taiwan, to Pegatron Corporation. The company did not reveal financial details with the Pegatron, one of the partners of ARRIS. The broadband tech ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan has built itself a reputation for cutting edge technology, efficient public transport and safe streets. But an earthquake has again highlighted the well-off island's history of shoddy construction and questionable safety standards. Many of Taiwan's ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC is going to release fewer smartphones this year. The company might be able to reduce its financial losses by focusing on a small number of mid-range and premium smartphones. One of the most awaited HTC smartphones of this ... ( read original story ...)

HTC may have plans for this year's new flagship smartphone but it doesn't seem like HTC is going to unveil a new handset at MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2018. The Taiwanese company is certainly working on a new flagship phone which can be the successor to ... ( read original story ...)

Rescuers were working Wednesday to reach five people trapped and more than 140 people unaccounted for in several buildings damaged by a strong earthquake near Taiwan's eastern coast. The shallow, magnitude 6.4 quake late Tuesday night caused at least four ... ( read original story ...)

A strong earthquake damaged buildings and buckled roads near Taiwan's eastern coast, killing two people and injuring more than 200. A hotel employee died in Hualien county when the ground floor caved in at the Marshal Hotel, and another person died in a ... ( read original story ...)