Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has published its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2011, stating that its net profit decreased by 25.5% year-over-year during the reporting period. This is reportedly the first time for HTC to see profit down over the last two years. According to the report, due to the competition from Apple's [...]

Foxconn, the original equipment manufacturer for Apple products, is reportedly expanding its manufacturing capacity in 2012, aiming to increase production for iPhones and iPads to meet the ever-growing market demand. According to reports in Chinese local media, Foxconn is cooperating with the municipal government of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, to double the number of [...]

The Internet video channel of the Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com and the Taiwan-based PC maker Asus have jointly announced that the two parties have formed a strategic partnership for a video service. Under the agreement of the two parties, Sohu's video contents will be implanted into Asus' products, covering PCs and tablet computers. Meanwhile, they [...]

Taipei has now reportedly opened free-of-charge Wi-Fi services, and the number of users has already reached 1.8 million. Taipei reportedly launched free Wi-Fi services in some special venues in July 2011, and it now opened about 540 access points in outdoor public places as well as access points on about 500 buses, offering free-of-charge Wi-Fi [...]

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and Chinese mainland's China Telecom will cooperate in the launch of Wi-Fi mobile Internet roaming service. Chunghwa Telecom said that due to the popularization of smartphones and tablet computers, and as the cross-strait communications and exchanges become more frequent, the demands for cross-strait voice and data roaming services are increasing rapidly. Prior [...]

Taiwanese mobile phones and devices designer HTC Corporation has announced that it has promoted Jason Mackenzie, HTC's president for North America and Latin America, to the newly-created position of president for global sales and marketing. In his new role, Mackenzie will report to Peter Chou, chief executive officer of HTC, and will be responsible for [...]

Chinese mainland telecom equipment maker Huawei has submitted applications to the Taiwan government to set up a new subsidiary in Taiwan. According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the new subsidiary aims at enhancing cooperation relationship between Huawei and the Taiwan industry chain. This move makes Huawei the first mainland telecom equipment maker that has [...]

Taiwan-based PC maker Acer has appointed Jim Wong, former president for Acer's IT products group, as its new corporate president. Born in 1958, Wong holds a bachelor degree, majoring in mathematics from Soochow University in Taiwan, and an MBA from Emory University, Georgia, USA. Joining Acer in 1986, Wong has experience in sales, product marketing, [...]

Taiwan-based Asia Pacific Telecom and Chinese mainland China Telecom have decided to launch a strategic cooperation in three major areas in the second quarter of 2011. According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the two parties will officially start a joint procurement mechanism, focusing on the buying of smartphones with prices of under CNY1,000. The [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published a report, stating that by December 31, 2010, the company had opened 3G international roaming and short message services in collaboration with 195 operators in 98 countries and regions. According to the report, China Unicom has cooperated with 487 operators in 238 countries and regions, including Hong Kong, [...]

The U.S.-based mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. will invest nearly USD1 billion to build a new display panel plant in Taiwan in 2011. According reports in foreign media, Taiwan's government said that the new plant, which will produce display panels used in mobile phones and electronic readers, will be located in Hsinchu. However, it did [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Ericsson has sued companies, including D-Link, Acer and Netgear, in Texas, U.S., for infringement of wireless products. The reports state that the prosecuted businesses in Ericsson's lawsuit include D-Link's parent company; D-Link's subsidiary in America; Acer's parent company; Acer's subsidiary in America; Netgear; and Gateway, which has been [...]

The Chinese e-book technology company Hanvon has set up a subsidiary in Taiwan. Following the setting up of its branch in Taiwan, Hanvon will start to sell its electronic reader products in this marketplace at the beginning of October 2010. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese version of Hanvon's e-book platform will be launched and about 2,000 e-books [...]

Chinese portal website Sina.com has published its first white paper targeting the Chinese microblog market. The white paper reveals that by the end of 2010, there will be over 65 million registered active accounts in the Internet microblog sector in China; by 2011, the number will be over 100 million. Statistics show that Sina's microblog [...]

Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city. Eric Ouyang, chairman of AboCom, revealed that the company signed an agreement with Zhengzhou High & New Technology Industries Development Zone for the establishment of [...]

Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with the Japanese communication giant NTT DoCoMo, regarding LTE-PF, a mobile terminal platform based on Long Term Evolution. Upon the completion of the LTE-PF licensing agreement, MediaTek plans to integrate this LTE technology with its 2G and 3G technologies to provide [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has launched a new international roaming customer service hotline for its users who travel overseas. If China Unicom's mobile users cannot access the local networks normally or their mobile phones cannot be used normally when traveling to another country, they can dial China Unicom's new international roaming customer service hotlines [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority reports that a study released by the Asia Pacific Carriers' Coalition shows Hong Kong provides the most economical local broadband access services in the Asia Pacific region.
The prices of broadband leased lines in Hong Kong at transmission speed of 1.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 45 Mbps and 155 Mbps [...]

Shyue-Ching Lu, chairman of Chunghwa Telecom, has revealed that the company plans to set up a subsidiary on the Chinese mainland in the second half of 2010, with expected capital of TWD1 billion.
The company is reportedly undecided on the company name of the new subsidiary, but it will probably be Chunghwa Telecom China Ltd.
Due to [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the island's smartphone maker HTC has decided to inject additional capital of USD45 million in the Shanghai-based HTC Electronics for capacity expansion.
Meanwhile, HTC will invest USD19.5 million in another mainland subsidiary, HTC Communications, for sales channel expansion. This move is reportedly a preparation for the sales of China [...]