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HTC denies Microsoft plans to hike royalty fees for Android smartphones

The Chinese-language Economic Daily News has reported that Microsoft plans to raise royalty charges imposed on Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC for using its software applications (such as MSN) from US$5 per    

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China market: Over 19 million smartphones sold in 1Q11

A total of 19.91 million smartphones were sold in the China market in irst-quarter 2011, rising 4.7% sequentially and 88.3% on year, according to Analysys International.    

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HTC to begin volume production of Puccini tablet PCs in June

HTC has entered the final stages of testing for its 10.1-inch Puccini tablet PCs, with volume production slated for June 2011. The tablet will be powered by a Qualcomm MSM8660 1.5GHz processor and runs on Andro    

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Acer defers launch of tablet PC and smartphone

Acer will postpone the launch of Iconia A100, an Android 3.0 7-inch tablet PC, from May-June as originally scheduled to August-September 2011 because Android 3.0 has some compatible issues with 7-inch screen an    

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China April mobile phone users exceed 900 million

There were 900.39 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2011, growing 1.14% on month and 14.48% on year, and 67.57 million (7.50%) of them were 3G users, according    

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ASUS gets Computex 2011 started early with a tablet teaser

Oh ASUS, what are you up to now? The company that brought us the wildly popular Eee Pad Transformer has another new tablet brewing in its design labs, which we're promised we'll get to witness for the    

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Apple said to introduce curved-glass iPhone 5

There has been a fair amount of buzz on the iPhone 5, and the latest being circulated around the supply chain in Taiwan is that Apple is going to adopt a curved cover glass for its next generation model, accord    

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PCB suppliers ramping up output to meet increasing demand from HTC

Taiwan-based PCB makers Unimicron Technology, Unitech Printed Circuit Board and Compeq Manufacturing all plan to ramp up their capacities for any layer HDI boards in 2011 to cope with increasing demand from HTC    

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Intel extends lead over Samsung in 1Q11, says IC Insights

IC Insights has issued its revealed ranking of the top semiconductor suppliers in the first quarter of 2011. Intel remained firmly in control of the number one spot in the ranking, extending its lead over secon    

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Apple Store celebrates 10th anniversary with 2.0 experience, iPads locked in Lucite (video)

We already wished the Apple Store a happy 10th anniversary, looking back to see what's changed (and what hasn't) in a decade of retail presence. Now Apple's tweaking things even more, launching t    

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