Acer is expected to launch its previously announced dual-OS netbook, with both Windows XP and Android, in August 2009, while Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics both set to benefit...

Google 's new Chrome Operating System (OS) represents a direct challenge to Microsoft's hegemony in the burgeoning market for netbook software, according to iSuppli.

Intel is reportedly in talks with Google to support the Android platform on Intel-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs), according to sources from Taiwan-based MID makers.

Google has announced that it is developing a computer operating system (OS) that will be an extension of its Google Chrome browser. The announcement of the new OS, dubbed Google Chrome...

While acknowledging that Nokia has denied that it is working on Android-based smartphone, sources from Taiwan's handset industry still believe that the world's number one handset...

Taiwan-based handset maker Mobinnova, an affiliate company under the Foxconn Group, has converted its Windows Mobile-based smartphone, the Mobinnova Ice, to support the Android platform,...

Compal Communications shipped 4.7 million handsets in the second quarter of 2009, bringing the total handset shipments for the first half of 2009 to 9.03 million units, according...

The consumer appetite for smartphones is skyrocketing and will push annual sales worldwide from 131 million units in 2008 to over 300 million by 2013, according to Parks Associates...

Samsung Electronics launched four handsets, the mid-range touch-enabled Star S5230 as well as the S3600, C3050 and B309, in the Taiwan market on June 30. The company expects the ratio...

HTC's development and rollout of the Android-powered G1 (HTC Dream) smartphone in cooperation with Google has brought in at least NT$20-30 billion (US$607.9 million) in revenues and...

The four major telecom service providers in Europe - Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and Telefonica/O2 - all plan to launch Android-powered handsets in the second half of 2009 instead...

HTC (High Tech Computer) has landed orders for its latest Android-powered smartphone, the HTC Hero, from T-Mobile and Orange with shipments to begin soon, according to company president...

Driven by government stimulus programs and purchases for the Lunar New Year holiday, China's domestic mobile-handset shipments totaled around 58 million units in the first quarter...

Own-brand handset vendors in Asia have become the main force for promoting Android-powered models in the global market, with High Tech Computer (HTC), Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics...

Motorola launched three new handsets, the Ming A1210, a new version of the Moto Surf A3100 and the W7, in the Taiwan market on June 17. The Ming A1210 was developed by Motorola's...