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Who was the most Googled person in Taiwan in 2009? - Dec 4, 2009

Blogs December has arrived, which means we'll soon be preparing for 2010 and the Year of the Tiger. But before we start popping champagne and fireworks, I'd like to take a moment ... Read story »

A big fat fine for Dell Taiwan - Jul 31, 2009

Blogs In a fitting conclusion to Dell Taiwan's recent pricing snafu, the Taiwan Government has handed the US computer giant a cool NT$1 million fine.  A Dell spokesman didn't confirm or deny ... Read story »

Tele Atlas launches crowd-sourced Speed Profiles in Taiwan - Nov 5, 2009

Crave If you've not heard of Netherlands-based company Tele Atlas' Speed Profiles, you're not alone. After all, this is the first time the mapping solutions company is launching the product in ... Read story »

Smooching robots do it for real, what next? - Aug 26, 2009

Crave Does anyone draw the line at this? With robots now taking over the fashion catwalk, it's only a matter of time before they can be engineered to run our lives ... Read story »

I'm hooked on Happy Farm - Nov 5, 2009

Blogs Who would have thought that a Facebook application like Happy Farm would take Hong Kong, Taiwan and China by storm? I didn't, and now I'm hooked. Just last week, unofficial numbers were ... Read story »

Beware of the camera-phone - Oct 23, 2009

Blogs Whether you're out comparing the latest gadget prices at the mall or taking embarrassing photos of friends to post on Facebook, a camera-phone is a handy thing to have in the ... Read story »

HTC announces HD2 for Asia - Nov 4, 2009

Crave Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on stage showing off his personalized HTC HD2 presented by HTC's Peter Chou. TAIWAN--HTC today officially announced the HD2 for Asia in a press event held in ... Read story »

Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5 with My Phone Premium - Oct 7, 2009

Features Offered as part of the premium package is a new "lost phone" feature that can be activated as an ad-hoc paid service. Read story »

Singapore gets Google Street View, finally - Dec 2, 2009

Crave Screenshot of Esplanade Drive It's been a long wait, but Google's ground-level imagery feature Street View of Singapore is at last a go. According to Google, Singapore is the first ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Google launches Street View in Taiwan: Let's take a tour! - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs A few days ago Google launched the controversial Street View feature in Google Maps here in Taiwan. Some privacy experts around the world are concerned that giving such close access will... ... Read story »

HTC launches global "You" campaign - Oct 30, 2009

Blogs The big news out of Taiwan this week is the launch of HTC's global "You" campaign. It is currently rolling out in 20 different countries and follows its new "Quietly Brilliant" brand ... Read story »

SLOW Internet speed across Asia - Aug 18, 2009

Blogs Following the hit of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan last week, certain Asian countries have been experiencing very slow Internet speeds even as we go into the second week after the disaster.  ... Read story »

One of the strangest swine flu announcements you'll ever see... - May 19, 2009

Blogs ...and it comes from a governmental organization.  I stumbled across this message last week: FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! COMPUTEX TAIPEI 09 on track... No swine flu cases in Taiwan! Taipei, Taiwan: ... Read story »

Three Taiwanese workers fired for using Facebook - Oct 12, 2009

Blogs The Taipei Times Online recently wrote a story about an auto parts factory in central Taiwan that fired three workers for spending too much time on Facebook.  Meanwhile, a Taiwanese factory ... Read story »

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