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  <description><![CDATA[From cloner haven to global heavyweight, Taiwan continues to reinvent itself]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Recipe for telecom consolidation]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63003177]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Delta and Northwest Airlines may be getting together in the US, with rumors of other possible carrier consolidations. This is always a good idea in a bloated industry with more players ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:04:04 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trouble ahead for Taiwan Yahoo!]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002652]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[You ever heard of Yahoo/Kimo? No, probably not. It's the local unit of Yahoo and it's a sign of what's wrong with the company.<br />
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It held a *press conference* (wonder ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:03:14 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Who will roll out NFC for mobile in Taiwan?]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002212]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Last October, digital security company Gemalto announced a partnership with Taiwan's Far EasTone telecom to roll out trial and full-on near field communications (NFC) SIM card technology for contactless transactions. So ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:02:09 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[And the survey says: Taiwan is a 3rd-world country!]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002101]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[The Institute for Information Industry, which besides having a grammatically challenged name, is apparently a Taiwan government department that does something... commissioning surveys and not much else. A branch of this ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:02:15 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Betting the farm on Eee]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002016]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Asustek has made waves worldwide with its "Eee" sub-notebook, which I find to be crapulent and not a good middle road between an iPod touch and a real notebook.<br />
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Now, ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:01:24 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Do HTC phones actually suck?]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63001857]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[HTC, the flavor of the month from Taipei, may be pissing some people off. While the company continues to build cred for handhelds (Dopod) and handsets (big in the US in ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:01:23 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Let's just give away 3G phones]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63001807]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Hi, boys and girls. Did you miss me?<br />
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Things have literally been quite quiet here on Ilha Formosa, but it looks like with the new year here there's an uptick ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:01:48 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Taiwan cage-match: Yahoo! vs tha Google]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63001237]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[We know that globally Google is kickin' everyone's butt. But in Asia, sometimes the song doesn't remain the same. Yahoo! (or, Yahoo Kimo, whatever that is... seems to be what they ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:11:59 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Big GPhone news: There is no GPhone! HTC keeps dreaming]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63001115]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[UPDATE ON HTC APPENDED BELOW. It's the big news that wasn't. Eliciting a monumental ho-hum from tech and gadget watchers everywhere, Google announced that instead of unleashing a flash new handset ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:11:13 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The 411 on the 886]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63001097]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Today is the day to write about whatever is on my mind. Prepare for me to go offscript and dazzle you with the fruits of my mind-grapes.<br />
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1. The iPod ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:11:08 +0800</pubDate>
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