After a bruising financial performance in 2005, Taiwanese electronics maker BenQ hopes to see its money-losing mobile phone division return to profitability later this year. But that may not happen unless the company can turn out hit products in the coming months, the company's top executive said in an interview.
BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG, the mobile handset unit of Taiwanese electronics maker BenQ, unveiled its first three handsets to bear the new BenQ-Siemens brand on Tuesday at events held simultaneously in Beijing and Berlin.
In a bid to woo small businesses, Microsoft announced Monday a US$100 discount and one year of free support for customers who purchase its Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 software.
Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, a U.S. citizen who had been sentenced to serve a two-and-a-half-year jail term in China for selling pirated DVDs, has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and agreed to forfeit US$823,833 in profits to the U.S. government, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said in a statement Monday.
Bob Tsao and John Hsuan, two top executives from United Microelectronics (UMC), the world's second-largest contract chip maker, have been indicted in Taiwan over alleged illegal investments in a Chinese semiconductor company, He Jian Technology (Suzhou), UMC said in a statement released Monday.
Lenovo Group at CES announced two new ThinkPad notebook computer series, the T60 series and the X60 series, which the company says can run for up to 11 hours without a charge when running on a second battery.
The value of IT hardware products manufactured by Taiwanese companies grew by 10.5 percent during 2005 to US$77 billion and that growth is expected to continue into 2006, with Taiwanese companies further expanding their dominance of the hardware manufacturing industry, according to Market Intelligence Center (MIC), a market research company in Taipei.
It's been one year since Lenovo Group announced plans to acquire IBM's PC division and the enlarged company is now looking to aggressively expand its share of the worldwide PC market. As part of this effort, Lenovo is gearing up to introduce its own brand of PCs to the US and European markets, most likely starting with a line of desktops for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers.
Taiwan's Quanta Computer, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab.
Microsoft and telecommunications provider, MCI, has announced a multi-year partnership to offer software and services that will allow users to call from a PC to almost any phone in the world.
One year after announcing plans to acquire IBM's PC division, Lenovo Group Chairman Yang Yuanqing is ready to take the enlarged company on the offensive and push into new markets.
Worldwide factory revenue for external disk storage systems grew faster than ever during the third quarter, according to market analyst IDC.
Cisco Systems said Wednesday it has signed an agreement to buy Cybertrust's Intellishield Alert Manager information service, including intellectual property and customer contracts.
Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics isn't shy about offering re-marked Intel processors for sale: the company is openly selling them through a major Chinese website and brags that its re-marked Pentium 4 chips look just like the real thing.
Via Technologies released on Thursday a free software add-on that allows Java software to draw on the hardware encryption capabilities of its C7 and C7-M processors.
