SUNTEC, Singapore – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is better known for its smartphones and is possibly the strongest contender to Apple Inc.’s iPhone. On the mobile networks side, Samsung strongly positioned itself as a WiMAX-focused vendor and is still the No. 1 provider of WiMAX equipment globally.

While Taiwan is clearly an important country to chip and device makers, US carriers look to the island for innovation too, with AT&T scouting the computex show in Taipei earlier this month for new phones to add to its network. “At AT&T we’re looking for new devices to add to our network each and every [...]

The Mobile Entertainment Forum in Asia is hosting its annual board elections during Communicasia in Singapore next week, with hopes that some US based companies might be interested in running, to get their foot into Asia. The MEF, a global trade association for the mobile media industry, says it is looking for industry leaders “who [...]

Google’s senior vice president for Chrome, Sundar Pichai, said his firm would not have made the progress it had with its Chromebooks and ultraportables had it not been for the remarkable Taiwanese ecosystem. In a hat tip to the country which has given Google so much, the firm says it is setting up a laboratory [...]

Audio appears to be becoming a burgeoning trend in the mobile industry, and at Computex 2011, the vendors were out in force to showcase how best to bring the beats to cell phones. Local Taiwanese company C-Media, widely known for its audio-playback hardware for PC and USB audio devices, demonstrated its wares, designed specifically to [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan – While Computex may famously be the most famous computer show of the IT industry, the world of wireless is certainly having an effect on the Taipei trade show. Nothing says wireless more than antennas, of which a plethora were to be found in the Taipei World Trade Center. Local company Chinmore Industry [...]

Taipei, Taiwan – The upcoming PadPhone from Asus will sport Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich, RCR discovered at Computex this week. Asustek’s tablet/phone combo – which allows consumers to use one SIM for two devices by allowing the smartphone to dock at the back of an Android tablet – should emerge by the end of this [...]

Taipei, Taiwan – Intel has invented a new category of mobile computers it is calling the “Ultrabook” the firm revealed at Computex on Tuesday. The company said it was also accelerating its Atom processor roadmap to a one-process-generation per year cadence. Speaking publicly at Computex for the first time after his stroke a year and [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Qualcomm Atheros Inc., Qualcomm’s networking and connectivity subsidiary is showing off several next-generation wireless chipset technologies this week at the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2011 conference in Taiwan. Qualcomm Atheros, which makes dual-band Wi-Fi in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands, plays mainly in the consumer electronics space where it specializes in [...]

The seventh Abacus International Conference 2010 held in Vietnam saw the unveiling of Abacus’ Next Generation Point-Of-Sale (POS) system and mobile initiatives – Abacus Mobile, Abacus WebStart Mobile, Abacus VirtuallyThere mobile, and TripCase. The plans are to make these initiatives active globally. Nkihil Dhodapkar, MD, Abacus Distribution Systems India said, “While Abacus VirtuallyThere mobile and [...]