Taiwanese company Proview Technology has the trademark rights for “iPad” in China and is suing Apple for up to $1.6 billion dollars for trademark infringement. They’re also demanding an apology from Apple for the transgression.
Back in 2006, Apple used a UK company called IP…
The Lenovo U300 is considered the top Ultrabook on the market by many of my favorite technology bloggers. My self I’m partial to Leveno so it, along side the ASUS UX31 are my top two picks. Being among the first to partake in this new…
Samsung has always built their own notebooks, but in 2012 according to Taiwan’s industry executives said Samsung will outsource an insignificant contract manufacturing of to a Taiwanese ODM. Looks like Samsung is testing the waters and has been asking around Quanta Computer Inc., Compal Electronics…
Taiwan’s largest gadget show kicked off over taking Halls 1 & 3 of Taipei’s World Trade Center on Saturday. Acer Chairman J.T. Wang spoke at a press conference and said that Ultrabook prices need to be reduced to about US$699 and that the information technology…
Just yesterday the Lenovo X130e was leaked along side the X1 Hybrid and an $800 Ultrabook. According to the Lenovo Live update he X130e was slated to be released this year and we’ve found a product page on Taiwan’s PCHome that confirms the 2011 release…
Shuttle is looking to take on the text book and has just launched the EduPAL, an electronic schoolbag solution based on an in-house-developed tablet PC. A trial has begun here in Taiwan at three elementary schools in central Taiwan. The 8 inch tablet is running…
The Apple iPhone 4S was the most successful smartphone in the company’s history, and that is even during a time when the global economy wasn’t at its strongest. There are signs that things might be slowing down for the Californians.
According to several Chinese media…
Not many companies have the bank roll to take on Apple’s legal department, so Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, reaffirmed support for Asian OEM’s involved in a legal battle with Apple is significant .
Google will not be providing lawyers or dollars but they will…
Take it with a grain of salt, but the rumor mill here in Taiwan is up and running and it seems good ol’ Digitimes has dished up news of two prototypes one that is viewed as an upgrade the other as a new product. The…
The first Ultrabooks from ASUS and Acer are on the market and they aren’t meeting sales expectations. Sources from the retail supply chain, according to one count each with only expected to sell around 100,000 units by the end of this year. These numbers are…
HP’s decision to discontinue webOS hardware like the TouchPad has not only affected their own staff, but also the tablet division of Taiwanese electronics firm, Inventec.
Sources have said that Inventec plans to lay off a little over 400 of its employees in the tablet…
Looks like Digitimes has published another report that seems a little suspicious, according to a ‘paper’ Samsung is outsourcing development of one of their Ultrabooks to Quanta. Why this news strikes me as odd, is that Samsung has two devices that could be re-purposed into…
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet hasn’t sparked consumer interest has much as they expected. Initially, RIM forecasted sales of 4 to 5 million PlayBooks last April, but the actual sales peaked at 800,000 units in the first two quarters of 2011, then sharply dropped to 100,000…
I saw this one coming a mile away! I’ve been saying for weeks now that Intel should subsidize the end cost of Ultrabooks for the consumer and apparently the manufacturers agree! Both Acer and Compal are looking Intel to help them drop the price on…
Innovating for the sake of innovation is often what I think of Taiwan’s government funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Taking a walk around their show room you wonder how long you’re going to have to wait for these glorious technological advancements! ITRI is a…
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