Articles on Taiwan

Sign of the times: Taiwan manufacturers withdraw from CeBIT - Feb 4, 2009

Blogs Apologies for the delay in posting, took a brief hiatus and trekked around Thailand for Chinese New Year. If there's ever a country ripe for solar development, it's definitely Thailand. I ... Read story »

Motorola misses the boat with the new Evoke - Apr 1, 2009

Blogs I recently upgraded my cell phone to a Motorola: The Q9h. It's not new by any means, but I got it for a pretty good deal, about NT$5,300/US$150 with no contract. ... Read story »

Dell showcases prototype updates to its Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook - Nov 6, 2008

Crave At a press event offering media glimpses into its Taiwan Design Center, Dell showcased possible design updates to the Inspiron Mini 9 range. Not satisfied merely with color options, the US ... Read story »

Asia is king--RP ranks 10th as Asia's top Internet countries - Oct 8, 2008

Blogs A recent report released by Internet World Stats (http://www.internetworldstats.com/) showed that Asia has the most number of Internet users in the world with 578.5 million users. Followed by Europe (384.6M), North ... Read story »

Microsoft offers Memory Upgrade Program for new Xbox Live Experience - Oct 16, 2008

Crave Do you own an Xbox 360 without a hard drive? Well on November 19, the new Xbox Live Experience will require you to have at least 128MB of memory available so ... Read story »

Report: HP to market new smart phone to consumers - Oct 6, 2008

Crave Aiming to push its hardware beyond the corporate world, Hewlett-Packard will release a new version of its iPaq smart phone that will also be marketed to consumers, The Wall Street Journal ... Read story »

Is Acer's greatest competitor Gateway? - Jan 2, 2009

Crave Whenever a manufacturer buys over a competitor, there is always a danger that existing product lines will cannibalize sales from the parent company. When HP and Dell bought over Voodoo and ... Read story »

Google establishes Android team in Taiwan - Mar 13, 2009

Crave Google has set up a team to provide technical support for its Android mobile-phone operating system to hardware makers in Taiwan, Google confirmed Wednesday. The group will provide support for phones, ... Read story »

Will you call your girlfriend while pooping? - Jan 19, 2009

Crave If a recent survey of mobile phone usage habits commissioned by the Windows Mobile team at Microsoft is anything to go by, we Asians seem to have an unhealthy obsession with ... Read story »

Adding fiber to the digital diet - Jan 9, 2009

Blogs One of the nice things about Taiwan is the excellent Internet service. If there's an upside to high population density, it's that it is fairly easy to send power, telephone, and ... Read story »

Philips LivingColors Mini coming next to Asia - Aug 21, 2008

Crave Remember the energy-friendly LivingColors orb that arrived in Asia back in May? Well, Philips is about to launch a miniaturized edition sometime this month in this part of the world. Put ... Read story »

HTC focuses on phone design; acquires One & Company Design, Inc. - Dec 4, 2008

Crave On Monday, HTC, the manufacturer of many of today's popular smart phones, announced its acquisition of San Francisco-based design firm One & Company Design, Inc (One & Co). A design company? ... Read story »

iPhone nano on the way to China first? - Jan 14, 2009

Crave A smaller, cheaper iPhone could hit China later this year, now that two companies appear to have gotten contracts to make its chips. More iPhone nano rumors are surfacing out ... Read story »

New Apple tablet rumors point to Kindle clones? - Mar 12, 2009

Crave More Apple tablet/Netbook rumors surfaced Wednesday as one Apple watcher wonders what the company is doing with all those books. Reuters is reporting that Apple has ordered 10-inch touch screens from ... Read story »

Regional code-free Blu-ray player now available - Jul 16, 2009

Features The Oppo BDP-83 universal disc player, which can playback DVD and Blu-ray from any region, is now shipping. Read story »

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