Articles on Taiwan

Trouble ahead for Taiwan Yahoo! - Mar 14, 2008

Blogs 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. It held a *press conference* (wonder how ... Read story »

Does Yahoo make money in Taiwan? - Oct 15, 2008

Blogs An article in our "vaunted" local paper, the Taipei Times, today said that Yahoo-Kimo, the awkwardly named local Yahoo affiliate, had a 30 percent rise in sales. Problem is, through either ... Read story »

Well, if you really want to know... - Sep 24, 2008

Blogs OK, I get it. You want to know what I really think about the new Google G1. Lord knows why, as with the i-anythings, there are zillions of places to get ... Read story »

An unhappy Apple marriage - Jun 11, 2008

Blogs It seems Taiwan mobile phone maker HTC can't cut a break. The company made serious waves with its (sadly) Windows-centric smart phones over the last year. Its new, hot Touch Diamond ... Read story »

You down with MOD? - Aug 13, 2008

Blogs Media On Demand (MOD), the great gray hope of pay content, may someday be worthwhile in some countries. Will it ever be worth a damn in Taiwan? Not likely. Chunghwa Telecom ... Read story »

Fizzle, not sizzle, for Wii launch - Jul 9, 2008

Blogs About 30 dog years after the rest of the world fell in love with Nintendo Wii, Taiwan is finally getting a legit Chinese-language model. That's right, while the rest of you ... Read story »

Why Motorola should just go away - May 26, 2008

Blogs Well, kids, guess what? Never made it to Moto's Taipei "party" for the MotoROKR E8. Please allow me to bitch and explain why. Motorola set up a Facebook event for the ... Read story »

Taiwan makers preempt Apple, reveal new iPod lineup - Sep 3, 2007

Blogs As far as we know, Apple sooo doesn't like it's contract manufacturers leaking news ahead of its own announcements. In fact, the supersecretive techgoonies in Cupertino are notorious for their tight ... Read story »

LG's DIOS diamond fridge - Aug 15, 2005

Crave Just when you thought you had recovered from its earlier gold-plated home AV system, targeted for the Middle East market, LG pops up yet another surprise. And this one's just as ... Read story »

Barbarians at the Gateway - Aug 28, 2007

Blogs Taiwan's Acer is looking to buy stuff. I wrote about this before, so not going for a whole rehash (see Acer the chaser earlier). Everyone knows Acer has so much cash ... Read story »

Do HTC phones actually suck? - Jan 18, 2008

Blogs 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 ... Read story »

Its bits and bytes, Taiwan style! - Jun 2, 2008

Blogs Its Computex once again in Taiwan! I guess I am making a cheap plug for the event, but it is afterall one of the largest IT event in Asia. In the ... Read story »

The 411 on the 886 - Nov 4, 2007

Blogs 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. 1. The iPod touch ... Read story »

Let's just give away 3G phones - Jan 15, 2008

Blogs Hi, boys and girls. Did you miss me? Things have literally been quite quiet here on Ilha Formosa, but it looks like with the new year here there's an uptick in ... Read story »

Smart mobile media move makes me scared to cross the street - Oct 3, 2007

Blogs Taiwan's number three telecom company, Far EasTone [note: Edelman Taiwan previously had a relationship with this company], has announced a new in-vehicle media service (IVMS, my proprietary acronyminous creation, suckas! I ... Read story »

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