Lite-On Technology posted consolidated revenues of NT$18.968 billion (US$632 million) for August, the highest monthly level so far in 2013 with on-month growth of 6.02% and on-year growth of 0.75%, and those of NT$133.230 billion for ...
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There were 90.39 million handsets sold in the China market during second-quarter 2013, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 41.8% on year, and 77.11 million of the units sold were smartphones, increasing 2.4% sequentially and 56.8% on ...
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Microsoft's plan to buy Nokia's phone business and have a larger presence in hardware devices has so far brought little response from PC and smartphone vendors in Asia. But the deal could end up bringing dividends to Microsoft's long-time ...
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LG Display has developed a 5.5-inch screen for next generation smartphones with 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, which is the highest to date, according to the company. Bigger screens and higher resolutions are key ways for smartphone ...
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After having landed smartphone orders from Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Huawei, BlackBerry and High-Tech Computer (HTC), China-based EMS provider BYD has recently acquired orders for an Acer entry-level smartphone, Hewlett-Packard (HP) ...
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The world’s love affair with smartphones continues to blaze. Between April and June, worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 52.3 percent compared to the same period in 2012, according to a new report by market research firm IDC. ...
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Fabless envelope tracking (ET) semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK and specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc ...
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LED packaging house Everlight Electronics, recorded June consolidated revenues of NT$1.892 billion (US$62.7 million) down 11.82% on month, while fellow packaging houses Unity Opto Technology had revenues of NT$604 million, down 14.47%, and ...
Prices for sapphire ingots in the third quarter of 2013 are expected to increase by 15-20% on quarter mainly due to growing demand from LED makers and China-based smartphone vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Prices ...
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The European Commission has sent a questionnaire to a number of mobile operators in the European Union, focusing on whether its distribution terms with these providers may put Apple at an advantage over other smartphone makers, according to ...
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Apple retook its spot as China's fifth largest smartphone vendor in the first quarter, as the country's market grew to triple the size of the U.S.'s. Apple had an 8 percent share of the smartphone market, while Samsung continued to lead ...
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Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones, IDC reported late Thursday. IDC said 216.2 million ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
Microsoft has inked an agreement that adds China-based ZTE to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program. Financial details of deal were not disclosed. But the agreement gives ZTE access to Microsoft patents covering phones, ...
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The crisis at mobile phone maker Nokia is intensifying as sales of its once-bedrock feature phones fell by more than 21 per cent in the first quarter, according to the company's latest financial report. Feature phones have kept the ...
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