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Canada's RIM is trying to take over the Asian markets too (and not only the North American and European ones), as, after launching the BlackBerry Bold in countries like Indonesia and Singapore, it just announced the smartphone for Taiwan. Set to be released at the beginning of November via Taiwan Mobile, th... |
9 October 2008
03:36 GMT |
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An important part of the slightly over 22 million mobile users from Taiwan might want to know that, starting this month (October), Sony Ericsson will begin selling its C905 8 Megapixel handset on the Taiwanese market. Besides being the first 8 Megapixel phone ever built by Sony Ericsson, the C905 will also ... |
6 October 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Although Taiwan is HTC's home country, the company's Touch Pro Pocket PC has not been released there yet. But this is about to change in the near future, as the Windows Mobile handset manufacturer intends to strike a deal with Far EasTone, Taiwan's third largest mobile carrier, in order to start s... |
20 September 2008
05:20 GMT |
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People in Taiwan are currently threatened with the imminent impact of Typhoon Fung Wong, which is expected to make a landfall between Hualien and Taitung this morning. The typhoon's power has been rated at force-13, with winds blowing at 137km per hour. This has prompted the National Meteorological Administratio... |
28 July 2008
03:51 GMT |
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LG has just released a new phone on the Taiwanese market - the LF KT520. First unveiled by the South Korean company at the beginning of the year, back in February (together with other 11 new handsets), LG KT520 is a mid-end device that looks simple but at the same time elegant, hence it will probably attract lots of ... |
25 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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BenQ, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, has recently released one if its new 3G mobile phones, namely the BenQ E55. The handset was first seen back in May, but then there was nothing official about it. Now the new BenQ has hit the market, coming in a simple but nice clamshell form factor and bringing a set of n... |
22 July 2008
07:43 GMT |
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HTC is preparing the release of a new version of Touch Diamond, the high-end Pocket PC first unveiled at the beginning of May. Codenamed HTC Victor, the new device will be available from the largest mobile operators in Taiwan: Chunghwa Telecom (later in June) and Taiwan Mobile (in August). The difference between t... |
14 July 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Chunghwa Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Taiwan, have signed a new deal in order to enhance the Taiwanese carrier's 3G network. Following the new agreement, which is valued at 72 million Euros ($113.5 million), the new 3G network will allow Chunghwa Telecom's subscribers t... |
14 July 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Except for Japan, which enjoys massive attention from the three biggest console manufacturers in the world, the other Asian countries were kind of ignored in the past. Today, it seems that both Sony and Nintendo are planning to invest in other Asian markets as well and expand their business plan in Taiwan and South K... |
7 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has recently seen itself in the news, putting its business in a rather bad light, as far as stock shares are concerned. But the company hasn't remained arms crossed and clarified that its business was doing well. Lora Ho, one of the company's spokespersons and chie... |
4 July 2008
06:15 GMT |
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If the topic of WiMAX happens to pop in one of your conversations these days, you will most certainly mention Taiwan, which is the country that seems to show the highest concern with the fast deployment of a WiMAX network at a national scale. And, because WiMAX is expected to become the next widespread standard in wi... |
11 June 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Taiwan, the country where this year's Computex show is hosted, is planning on becoming the top wireless region in the world. Apparently, the Taiwanese government has listed the development of a wireless infrastructure among the 12 new construction projects aimed at stimulating the national economy. According to ... |
3 June 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Taiwan, South-Asian island with the 23-million people, will soon be getting the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, RIM's latest smartphone from the Pearl series. The device will apparently be launched by Taiwan Mobile (also known as TWM), the second largest mobile operator in the country. According to DigiTimes, a Taiwan-b... |
29 May 2008
10:58 GMT |
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Asus P320, one of the smallest Pocket PCs on the market, was launched yesterday in Taiwan, Asus' home country, which has more than 22 million mobile subscribers. Already available in some European countries, the stylish Asus P320 was first unveiled at the beginning of March, during CeBIT 2008, together with o... |
28 May 2008
02:47 GMT |
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AOL has always been a company focused on the evolution of its products, so new regional versions of its services are announced every once in a while. Today, the New York-based company has announced the availability of three new regional versions of AOL Video, namely the Canadian, Indian and Taiwanese video portals. M... |
22 May 2008
17:46 GMT |
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BenQ will soon release the E55 mobile phone, a new device that recently surfaced on the Web, together with a low-res image and some of its technical details. The E55 comes in a clamshell form factor and has a pretty nice design, most probably being a handset created to attract users who want and need stylish devices.... |
14 May 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson will soon come with a brand new F-series of handsets that will focus on the "fun" side of mobile life. This fact was unveiled during the presentation of the first SE flagship store from Taiwan, which will be open for the public starting tomorrow, the 10th of May. Besides Sony Ericsson phones, acce... |
9 May 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Mobile gamers from China and Taiwan have from now on extra titles to chose from, as more games from Nokia's SNAP Mobile platform are available for them, through additional distribution channels. Following Nokia's new deal with SINA Corporation, an important Chinese media company, users all around China have... |
30 April 2008
09:57 GMT |
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Part of Nokia's line-up of luxury handsets, Vertu Ascent Ti was recently released in Taiwan, coming with a price only rich mobile users can afford: 214,000 TWD, which means about $7,070 or 4,500 Euro.What do you get for this money? First of all, a rare device that will surely attract everyone's looks - eit... |
18 April 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Samsung Armani, one of the most fashionable mobile phones created by Samsung, will apparently be available in Taiwan at the end of April, for the price of 33,800 Taiwan dollars (about 1,116 US dollars).Designed in collaboration with Giorgio Armani, the famous Italian fashion company, Samsung Armani combines elegance ... |
15 April 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Motorola, in collaboration with UTStarcom, will deploy a WiMAX network for Fitel (First International Telecom), one of the first five mobile operators in Taiwan. This represents the third WiMAX deployment contract signed by Motorola with a Taiwan-based carrier. Currently offering mobile services to more than 1 mill... |
10 April 2008
02:16 GMT |
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Welcome to the Taiwan fight for the most popular site, a fight to the death, or until one of the contenders gives in. In the red corner, we have all time champion Yahoo!, weighing as much as the Internet itself, infrastructure included, that won the last seven match-ups against anyone bold enough to challenge its sup... |
10 March 2008
17:26 GMT |
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Once on the top of the piracy world, responsible for the counterfeiting of an estimated $900 million worth of Microsoft products, Huang Jer-sheng from Taiwan, owner of the Taipei-based distributor Maximus Technology Inc., will spend the next four years of his life in prison. The pirated software syndicate lead by Hua... |
4 February 2008
07:47 GMT |
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Travagan is a very new company emerging from the "all-father" Taiwan, and seemingly, it aims for the highest end of the audio technology market, or at least that's what they somehow claim. I hope they're not actually believing they will storm the audiophile market, at least not with their freshly- introduce... |
11 January 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Motorola has big plans to win back the lead advantage that other handset producers have won over the past period. The company's strategy is based on a major future release of up to 30 new mobile phones, including some great hits to raise sales numbers sky high.The new handsets will be released on Taiwan's m... |
21 November 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and GigaMedia Limited have recently announced an agreement over NBA Street Online, for the game's launch in Taiwan and the online operations respectively. According to a recent official report, the game is due out in Q1 2008 in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. NBA Street Online is the second online t... |
20 November 2007
03:46 GMT |
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Danger Room reports Taiwan is secretly working on a blackout bomb designed to...well… wipe out China's electrical system. The news was also in United Daily News, which claimed Taiwan is working hard on a graphite bomb, similar to the one used by the US Army troops in Serbia.Taiwannews detailed the original repor... |
24 October 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Because YouTube is owned by the super giant Google it's pretty obvious that it should follow the plans imposed by the parent company. Since Google Search evolved a lot and became available in almost any corner of the world, the Mountain View company wants to do the same with the online video sharing service whic... |
18 October 2007
16:26 GMT |
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The online video sharing service YouTube rolled out a new version of the technology which is supposed to allow the Taiwanese users to promote their content and share them with other members easier than anytime before. Just like the other versions of YouTube, the new flavor targets the Taiwan residents, providing all ... |
18 October 2007
09:41 GMT |
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After Quanta Computer which is the most important contract computer manufacturer in the world posted strong revenues for the past month, two other Asian hardware manufacturing companies, Lite-On and Delta, posted increased revenues too, showing the world that the Taiwan based computer industry is doing its business ... |
9 October 2007
10:53 GMT |
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After Nokia recently released some moon cakes in China, the handset producer will bring some of its sweetest products in Taiwan too. The tasty cakes are packed and ready to ship, which should happen pretty soon, as they can't wait too long before reaching stores.The wrapping that the Nokia sweets will come in lo... |
25 September 2007
04:58 GMT |
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LG has just expanded its line of mobile phones in Taiwan with the release of two new handsets, both looking highly stylish. None of the two has something that users will not find in other devices, but they make a pretty good choice especially due to the appealing design.KS10 and KG290 are both slider phones, a form f... |
21 September 2007
04:28 GMT |
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Ok, it's not really called the "Snow White Edition" Nokia N73, but the name surely suits it. The device has recently been launched in a Ramadan special edition too and now sees another limited release, in an all-white design.It looks like Nokia has seen great potential in the N73 handset, as it has gone through ... |
31 August 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Samsung has announced its S730i phone model a long time ago and now plans on releasing it in Taiwan along with other handsets. The launch will also concern L768, E848, J608 and S209 mobile phones, all highly fashionable sliders.Samsung S730i will bring reliable solutions for most of the basic features that mobile pho... |
24 August 2007
09:03 GMT |
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The most important Taiwan-based LCD panel makers like AU Optronics (AUO for short), Chi Mei Optoelectronics (also known as CMO), Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) and HannStar Display posted record breaking sells result for the last month. CMO is the definitive winner of the last month as the company saw a strong improvem... |
10 August 2007
11:59 GMT |
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Steve Chen, YouTube co-founder, made a trip to Taiwan where he revealed a lot of interesting plans for the online video sharing service. Among others, the most important one is obviously a new flavor of YouTube that will have a new side for the Chinese users soon. At this time, more than half of the users are accessi... |
11 June 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson plans on releasing six more entry-level handsets in 2008 for the Taiwanese market. This comes as part of the company's considerable economical growth in the last year.A Chinese-language Commercial Times report has noticed that there is a high chance for Sony Ericsson to enter six more mobile phone ... |
5 June 2007
06:36 GMT |
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Almost 92% of the Quanta Computer-made OLPC notebook's (XO) components are provided by Taiwan, states Mary Lou Jepsen, founding chief technology officer for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). According to Jepsen, the number of XO computers scheduled for the second half of 2007 could reach almost 1 million units.The XO... |
18 May 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Google included a new set of improvements in Maps, the online service that allows users to view satellite imagery straight from a web-based interface. Among other countries, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan and Greece are now offering some high-resolution photos with their streets captured straight from satellites. The pack of... |
7 May 2007
02:48 GMT |
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What, they weren't allowed to bring Wiis near Taiwan airport? I didn't know, honest to God. Taipei Times says that government officials will not confiscate machines anymore and that the National Communications Commission has loosened up their regulations regarding health hazards surrounding Nintendo's ... |
20 March 2007
08:31 GMT |
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Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has been selected by Taiwan's largest telecommunications provider, Chunghwa Telecom, to deploy Taiwan's first Universal WiMAX network. The new wireless broadband network will allow Chunghwa Telecom customers in the central commercial district of the densely populated metropo... |
2 March 2007
08:29 GMT |
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