Taiwan wants to end Samsung’s AMOLED dominance, calls for HTC, Asus and Acer alliance

Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has called for manufacturing giants in the country to combine forces and form an AMOLED research and development alliances, helping to boost the development of an integrated supply chain for smartphones. CENS reportsthat the demand for AMOLED panels has grown rapidly, with global shipments totalling more than 10 million units in a single quarter, but Korean vendor Samsung has dominated the market, leaving Taiwanese companies with lower production output....

2 min · 294 words · Rhonda Moreno

Taiwanese telco commits to boosting Internet speeds tenfold by 2015

Chunghwa Telecom, the largest telecommunication service provider in Taiwan, announced in a press conference its ambitious plans to boost Taiwan’s telecom infrastructure to a ridiculously fast minimum speed of 100 megabits-1 gigabit per second by 2015, reports Taiwan tech blogTechOrange. At thenews conference, Chunghwa chairman Lu Shyue-ching said that “The 10-fold growth in data transmission rate is fertile soil that can nurture Taiwan’s industry sector.” To make it a reality, the company will invest 200 billion NT (US $6....

2 min · 305 words · Susan Williamson

Take a fresh look at your friends’ photos as Pixable hits the iPad

As we’vepreviously stated,Pixable‘sPhotofeedapp for Facebook is one of the smartest, best-looking ways of browsing your friend’s photos. Now the New York startup has brought the experience to the iPad with anew appthat has launched today. Just like the browser-based version, Photofeed for iPad lets you browse photographs from your friends not just by who posted them, but also by a number of categories designed to highlight the ‘best’ photos that you might have missed....

2 min · 359 words · Barry Dominguez

Take a look at Google’s beautiful new Silicon Valley campus

Online search giant Google has signed a deal to lease four office buildings in Sunnyvale, California that will be able to accomodate as many as 2,900 employees as the company continues its growth spurt. Silicon Valley reportsthat the new offices would mark Google’s largest presence in the Silicon Valley outside of its headquarters in Mountain View, contributing to 1.9 million square feet of office space it has already committed to adding this year alone....

2 min · 287 words · Maria Long

Take a look inside Apple’s Hong Kong store, its most expensive ever [video]

http://vimeo.com/29620979 Apple’s recently opened Hong Kong store is not your average Apple location as this video of its launch fromM.I.C. Gadgetshows. Here are some need to know stats about the store: Apple’s Shanghai store is impressive too, and the existence of both stores is testament tothe success Apple is enjoying in Asia, and particularly amongst the increasingly affluent Chinese population . The store and Apple’s huge efforts to create a flagship for its brand in China is likely to push back on the city-state’s ‘gray market’ for counterfeit Apple products....

1 min · 203 words · Megan Phillips MD
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