Shares of High Tech Computer Corp (HTC,
The code-named HTC Touch phone is widely seen as a competitor to Apple Inc's iPhone as both the companies promoted their phones with the key feature -- the touch screen -- which allows users to browse Web pages, documents, messages and the contact list, replacing a traditional keypad.
The stock price of HTC rose NT$34, or 6.87 percent, to NT$529 yesterday, outperforming the benchmark TAIEX's 1.42 percent gain.
"The company will start selling the product to major European telecom operators in the fourth quarter," HTC said in a filing to the Taiwan Stock Exchange yesterday.
The Taoyuan-based company said on Monday that it planned to sell the second-generation of HTC Touch family, or HTC Touch Dual, later this month in Europe for Orange, which plans to launch the model in the UK, France, Romania, Poland and Switzerland.
The new model of the Touch series is a more powerful phone enabling high-speed connectivity at 3G, or 3.5G for wireless connectivity and data transmission, compared to Edge technology, at 2.5G, adopted for the HTC Touch launched this summer.
The nation's biggest phone company Chunghwa Telecom Co (
Chunghwa Telecom bought 10,000 HTC phones along with an unspecified volume of HTC Touch, Chen said.
Chunghwa Telecom has said HTC phones have helped boost the average revenue per user (ARPU). The ARPU from HTC phone users was NT$1,520, 46 percent higher than the average NT$1,041 from its 3G subscribers.
Chunghwa Telecom has a total of 8.5 million mobile users, making up a 36.3 percent share of the local mobile market. It has 1.65 million 3G subscribers.
Among the rows of vibrators, rubber torsos and leather harnesses at a Chinese sex toys exhibition in Shanghai this weekend, the beginnings of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shift in the industry quietly pulsed. China manufactures about 70 percent of the world’s sex toys, most of it the “hardware” on display at the fair — whether that be technicolor tentacled dildos or hyper-realistic personalized silicone dolls. Yet smart toys have been rising in popularity for some time. Many major European and US brands already offer tech-enhanced products that can enable long-distance love, monitor well-being and even bring people one step closer to
Malaysia’s leader yesterday announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the Southeast Asian nation’s role in the global chip industry. A prominent player in the semiconductor industry for decades, Malaysia accounts for an estimated 13 percent of global back-end manufacturing, according to German tech giant Bosch. Now it wants to go beyond production and emerge as a chip design powerhouse too, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. “I am pleased to announce the largest IC (integrated circuit) Design Park in Southeast Asia, that will house world-class anchor tenants and collaborate with global companies such as Arm [Holdings PLC],”
Sales in the retail, and food and beverage sectors last month continued to rise, increasing 0.7 percent and 13.6 percent respectively from a year earlier, setting record highs for the month of March, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday. Sales in the wholesale sector also grew last month by 4.6 annually, mainly due to the business opportunities for emerging applications related to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing technologies, the ministry said in a report. The ministry forecast that retail, and food and beverage sales this month would retain their growth momentum as the former would benefit from Tomb Sweeping Day
Thousands of parents in Singapore are furious after a Cordlife Group Ltd (康盛人生集團), a major operator of cord blood banks in Asia, irreparably damaged their children’s samples through improper handling, with some now pursuing legal action. The ongoing case, one of the worst to hit the largely untested industry, has renewed concerns over companies marketing themselves to anxious parents with mostly unproven assurances. This has implications across the region, given Cordlife’s operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The parents paid for years to have their infants’ cord blood stored, with the understanding that the stem cells they contained