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Friday 27 November 2009
Netronix developing e-book readers on Android platform
Network equipment maker Netronix is currently cooperating with Texas Instruments (TI) to develop e-book readers on the Android platform and expects shipments to top one million units...
Thursday 26 November 2009
Taiwan PCB makers not rushing to HDI boards for e-book readers
With the exception of Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE), most Taiwan PCB makers are still reluctant to enter the production of HDI boards for e-book readers as demand from the sector...
Wednesday 25 November 2009
HannStar and LG Display sign patent cross-licensing agreement
HannStar Display signed a patent cross-licensing agreement for TFT-LCD technology with LG Display on November 24, 2009, retroactively effective as of January 1, 2009, according to...
Tuesday 24 November 2009
IT Month 2009: BenQ and Fujitsu to showcase e-book readers
Taiwan-based BenQ and Japan-based Fujitsu will showcase e-book readers at the IT Month 2009 consumer trade show in Taiwan. The show will run from November 28 to January 1, 2010.
Monday 23 November 2009
PVI EPD production in full swing for year-end shopping, says chairman
Prime View International (PVI) is gearing up its EPD shipments to clients for the year-end shopping season, company chairman Scott Liu has said, amid reports that two of its major...
Monday 23 November 2009
Major price cuts for e-book readers unlikely in 2010, says PVI chairman
Prices of e-book readers are unlikely to drop sharply to as low as US$100 in 2010, as the market has just started to take off, and there is little need for vendors to resort to price...
Thursday 19 November 2009
PVI chairman expects e-book reader market to more than double in 2010
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) chairman Scott Liu has forecast that the global e-book reader market will more than double in 2010, compared to...
Wednesday 18 November 2009
BenQ debuts own-brand e-book reader, aims at global sales of 300,000 units in 2010
BenQ has introduced its own-brand e-book reader, the nReader, and plan to launch it together with its online e-book trading platform in Taiwan in January 2010 and then in Japan and...
Thursday 12 November 2009
CPT to offer 3D, multi-touch and EPD panels, says president
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) plans to broaden its product lines and will start shipping 3D, multi-touch and EPD (electrophoretic display) panels as early as the end of 2009, according...
Thursday 12 November 2009
Network equipment maker Netronix expanding e-book reader production lines
Taiwan-based network equipment maker Netronix will begin to expand its production lines for e-book readers at the end of 2009 instead of the first quarter of 2010 as originally planned...
Wednesday 11 November 2009
E-readers will take off for holiday shoppers in 2010, says Gartner
This year is likely to be remembered as a watershed in the evolution of e-books and e-readers with several milestones and product launches standing out as catalysts for change in...
Friday 6 November 2009
Taiwan market: CHT, FET and Taiwan Mobile competing for e-book services
The top-three Taiwan-based telecom carriers Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) and Taiwan Mobile are all eager to offer e-book services in order to help...
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Acer chairman calls for cross-strait cooperation on WiMAX, e-book readers
Acer chairman JT Wang, who also serves as chairman of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), has invited China-based players to attend Computex 2010 and hopes participation could...
Friday 30 October 2009
HannStar Display to begin shipping touch panels in March 2010
LCD panel maker HannStar Display has entered design-in for the production of touch panels in cooperation with color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic with volume shipments slated...
Tuesday 27 October 2009
CMO to starts shipping e-book display panels in 4Q09
LCD panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) will start shipping 6- and 9-inch e-book reader panels to its e-paper production partner Prime View International (PVI) in the fourth...