CeBIT 2016 came to a successful close, earning praise from exhibitors and visitors as well as the organizers and their partners. “CeBIT 2016 put digitalization at the top of the business, political and social agenda,” said Oliver Frese, member of the managing board at Deutsche Messe AG, on Friday in Hannover. “CeBIT underscored its role as the world’s leading platform for the digitalization of th...

COMPUTEX TAIPEI is set to open from May 31 to June 4, 2016. As the ICT industry has been developing, expanding and transforming from just computers and accessories to IoT and endless innovations for the past few years, this year’s COMPUTEX TAIPEI will impress visitors with various new features to retain its reputation as a globally leading trade fair for tech industries. Ever since established...

CeBIT India 2015, a three-day trade fair organized annually by the Germany-based Deutsche Messe for the global ICT (information and communication technology) industry in India’s Bangalore, is scheduled to open October 29 at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre and expected to achieve bigger success after its inauguration in 2014, given India’s promising software industry and relatively robus...

By organizing three concurrent exhibitions for different industries in Myanmar, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the semi-official export promoter, continues to try exploring new markets for Taiwanese suppliers, whose sales and market shares are being challenged by mainland Chinese rivals, to build new business opportunities across the AEC (the ASEAN Economic Community) blo...

With the core driver of progress and success in sales and marketing of the ICT (information-communication technology) sector still generally recognized as innovation, the 2015 Computex d&i Awards Taipei remains an anticipated event alongside the annual, high-profile Computex Taipei trade show. This year, the 6 jurors chose 72 entries out of 271 from ICT manufacturers across the world to be hon...

When ICT is mentioned, “Taiwan” is the first word comes to mind. The reason is simple: Taiwan is the manufacturing powerhouse for high-tech products and its most outstanding ICT edge offers a complete supply chain. According to Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), these Taiwanese manufacturers hold the greatest market share of the world’s production notebooks (89%), desk top...

By KEN LIU The five-day Computex Taipei 2014 trade show closed on June 7 in the midst of high expectations that it will bring lucrative business opportunities to Taiwan’s information and communications technology (ICT) industry this year. According to Chairman C.K. Wang of the government-backed Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the 2014 edition of the annual show is li...

This year, the six jurors of the COMPUTEX d&i Awards chose GP Acoustics (UK) Ltd., Royal Philips (Netherlands), HTC Corp. (Taiwan), Taer Innovation Co., Ltd. (Taiwan), and Thermaltake Technology Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) as the Gold Award winners of the information-communication technology (ICT) design competition. The five winners were announced on June 2 at the pre-show international press confere...

Global downloads of applications from online stores are forecast to exceed 268 billion by 2017, when overall revenue generated this way will reach US$77 billion, driven by the popularity of mobile internet devices, including smartphones and tablets, according to Gartner Inc., a British market research firm. Gartner also predicts that mobile end-users will provide personalized data streams to ove...

To promote lithium-ion battery products made in Taiwan, the island’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently organized several local makers using STOBA (Self Terminated Oligomers with hyper-Branched Architecture) technology to attend the Techno-Frontier 2012, an exhibition of innovative electro-mechanical parts and devices in Tokyo, Japan, held July 11-13. The battery makers,...