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Samsung Electronics posted strong second-quarter results, matching its South Korean competitor LG Electronics with growth in handset sales. The company, which makes a wide range of electronics, said it expects    

LG Electronics appeared to buck the second-quarter doldrums with a record net profit and an increase in mobile phone shipments. The results were much brighter than numbers from Nokia and Sony Ericsson, which ea    

Apple and Research In Motion took in a disproportionate share of the handset industry's operating profits last year relative to their worldwide market share, according to an analysis by Deutsche Bank analy    

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 to a Chinese-language Economic    

While PND and in-dash navigation device sales continue to suffer from the economic recession, handset-based turn-by-turn navigation is boosted by the rapidly growing smartphone segment. ABI Research expects the    

Taiwan-based Largan Precision has reported self-estimated consolidated revenues of NT$646.8 million for June, the highest monthly level so far in 2009 mainly due to booming shipments of 3-megapixel lens kits fo    

Protection component maker Polytronics Technology has begun shipments of a new line of SLD circuit protection devices used in lithium batteries to a handset vendor. Monthly shipments are expected to increase fr    

Handset keypad and flexible PCB maker Ichia Technologies posted consolidated revenues of NT$3.96 billion (US$120.36 million) in the first half of 2009, up 10.6% from a year earlier, the Chinese-language Economi    

Nvidia has reportedly landed orders for its Tegra chip from some of the top-five brand handset vendors, according to market sources in Taiwan.    

PCB maker Ichia Technologies has reported consolidated June revenues of NT$675 million (US$20.52 million), up 21.4% from May, and revenues from FPCBs totaled NT$331 million, up 21.2% sequentially. Career Techno