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- Taiwanese digital still camera shipments grew 51% in 2005
- In spite of the slack growth of worldwide DSC Digital Still Camera shipment, the Taiwanese DSC industry has been expanding rapidly in 2005. According to the Market Intelligence Center, total shipment volume of the Taiwanese DSC industry is expected to hit nearly 10.4 mln units in Q4 2005 and approximately...
- Tags: Taiwanese DSC industry, DSC, Taiwanese DSC, TAIWANESE
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
- Taiwanese notebook exports grew 40% in the first half of 2005
- Although Q2 is a traditional weak season for notebook PCs, in Q2 2005 worldwide shipment volume saw a larger increase than forecasted as major brands tried to increase their market share by using low-price strategies, strengthening the desktop replacement effect. Taiwanese notebook PC ODM/OEM makers profited from this trend as...
- Tags: notebook computer, TAIWANESE, shipment volume
- Blog posts 2005-08-14
- Taiwan produced $67 bln of computer hardware in 2004, has 72.4% laptop market share
- Taiwanese firms produced $67 bln worth of computer hardware in 2004, a 23% increase over 2003 and tops in the world. Taiwanese companies, which have invested more than $100 bln in China, are continuing to shift production to the mainland to capitalize on cheap labor and production costs. About 73%...
- Tags: computer, TAIWANESE
- Blog posts 2005-03-03
- Taiwan produced $67 bln of computer hardware in 2004, has 72.4% laptop market share
- Taiwanese firms produced $67 bln worth of computer hardware in 2004, a 23% increase over 2003 and tops in the world. Taiwanese companies, which have invested more than $100 bln in China, are continuing to shift production to the mainland to capitalize on cheap labor and production costs. About 73%...
- Tags: computer, TAIWANESE
- Blog posts 2005-03-03
- Taiwanese double WLAN production
- Three major Taiwanese WLAN product suppliers – CyberTAN Technology, Gemtek Technology and Global Sun Technology – expect to see their combined monthly capacity reach 5.9 million to 6.0 million units by the end of 2004 from about 3.3 million currently. Details of each company’s expansion plan are not available, but...
- Tags: supplier, WLAN, TAIWANESE
- Blog posts 2003-12-24
- Taiwanese makers are dropping CD-RW/DVD combo drives
- Many of Taiwan’s optical disc drive manufacturers, in light of increasing OEM orders for DVD burners, plan to gradually decrease OEM production of combo drive models. According to Taiwanese makers, the OEM price level of combo drives has dropped from US$70-80 per unit in Q1 2003 to US$40-45 currently. The...
- Tags: DVD burner, DVD, OEM, TAIWANESE
- Blog posts 2003-12-24
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- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Apple notebook refresh rumored to arrive October 14 (updated)
- Daring Fireball's Jon Gruber posted an interest mention in his Notes and Observations piece after Apple's Let's Rock event on Tuesday. Buried at the end of his third paragraph is this little gem that predicts the date of the upcoming MacBook revision: Those of you holding out for a...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Trackpad, AppleInsider, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- 8 million iPhones sold; 10m by end of September
- According to a piece at Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhones to date. But that's not an official stat from Apple, it's an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Corporate Governance, Engineering, Blogging, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista
- The Mother-in-law versus Vista battle cold war never ends. Every week, it's something different that goes wrong that brings us to the brink of annihilation, and I have to swoop in on the weekends to fix the inevitable new problem that comes up. Fortunately, I have the system more or...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rachel, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- The power of open source celebrity
- Thanks to his work with GPL Violations, celebrity found Harold Welte anyway. And now comes the reward. VIA Technologies, a Taiwanese chip maker, has made him its open source liaison. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: VIA Technologies Inc., Celebrity, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Â A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise, surprise, Apple starts legal proceedings and unleashes the might of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
- The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...
- Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...
- Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Are there enough suckers in the world to make a market for Mac clones?
- Much like the fascination one finds when driving by a traffic accident, the Mac community is abuzz with questions of whether or not the supposed Mac cloner Psystar is a real company and will sell real Mac clones. But the real question is whether anyone in their right mind will...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Machine, Psystar, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Forget WiFi, how about built-in GPS in your digital camera?
- While camera makers like Panasonic and Nikon are busy adding Wi-Fi capability to their cameras, Taiwanese ODM Altek has announced a point-and-shoot with built-in GPS and automatic geotagging capabilities which it expects to begin shipping by summer. So now it looks like the 3G iPhone isn't the...
- Tags: Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac Clones
- As I am sure like many of you, I watched the entire Psystar imbroglio unfold last week, snickering under my breath with unabated amusement while I imagined the collective blood pressures of Apple executives boil to a protective fever, with armies of attorneys ready to stream out in phalanx attack...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Attack, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Could the Olympics spoil Back to School sales?
- Supply chain blogs recently warned that the Chinese government may close down a number of manufacturing industries during the Olympic games this summer and other posters warn that shipping and production slowdowns could be felt around China. The site says games could disrupt the flow of technology hard-goods in the...
- Tags: China, Olympic Games, Supply Chain, Apple Inc., Sales, Manufacturing, Games, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
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