All the stories tagged with taiwan
ASUS teams up with actor Jay Chou on the special edition N43SL notebook
07/05/2011, Though it’s been quite awhile since the Green Hornet movie was released, but the actor who plays Kato in the movie is still a megastar in the country he’s from – Taiwan. And one of the country’s biggest electronics manufacturers, [...]
Apple changes return App Store return policy in Taiwan
06/27/2011, After being threatened with a fine by the Taiwanese government for not having a 7-day return policy, it looks like Apple has given in to the authorities. It has been reported that the Apple App Store for Taiwan has changed [...]
moJo iCuisine Uses Table As Interactive Menu
06/17/2011, We’ve heard of restaurants where they present a computer next to your table where through either a mouse or touch screen you can browse the menu and place your order without having to even talk to a waiter/waitress, the downside [...]
ITRI’s gadget turn any TV into a touchscreen display
06/15/2011, The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan has recently come up with a new gadget that could possibly give touchscreen manufacturers a run for their money. They’ve managed to come up with a special device that can turn any [...]
Sushi restaurant provides Geiger counter for peace of mind
03/24/2011, What would you expect to get when you step foot into a Japanese restaurant? Some of us would think of chopsticks and porcelain bowls, but this sushi restaurant in Taiwan is offering a handheld Geiger counter (a device which can [...]
HTC’s next Android flagship phone pictured in Taiwan
01/27/2011, Looks like we don’t always have to wait until Mobile World Congress 2011 in order to get a glance at the latest phones. We previously caught wind of a button-less HTC phone and now it appears that the phone has [...]
Faster and better way to treat cancer developed
01/26/2011, Some researchers from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan have come up with a prototype system that can be used to treat cancer without chemotherapy or invasive surgery. The system is a device that induces nano-magnetic particles to raise [...]
iPad mini spotted online?
12/21/2010, Rumors of a smaller iPad have been going around for a while now and while it doesn’t seem like Apple will be offering such a tablet anytime soon, a Taiwan celebrity and race driver, Jimmy Lin, has drawn attention to [...]
Taiwanese Company Threatens To Sue Apple Over iPad Name
10/28/2010, A struggling Taiwanese company, Proview, is currently threatening to sue Apple for $1.5 billion over the iPad trademark, claiming that an earlier agreement to sell the trademark didn’t include the trademark rights for the Chinese market. Proview tried unsuccessfully to [...]
Taiwan-based Handset Manufacturers Shunning WP7?
10/13/2010, While Windows Phone 7 (WP7) was just launched a few days ago, word is going around that Taiwan-based handset manufacturers have shifted R&D investment to Android for two to three years, and as such, most of them are unwilling to [...]
Asus Eee 1.8-inch USB Hard Drive Available In Taiwan
08/03/2010, A while back Asus was busy coming up with all sorts of Eee-branded accessories when its Eee PCs were dominating the netbook scene, though the practice seems to have died down now. That being said, it seems that Asus still [...]
Apple Mac Mini Price Mix Up In Taiwan
07/26/2010, The folks over at Digitimes are reporting that Apple’s Taiwan online store made a slight boo boo with its Mac mini pricing, listing the Mac mini with 8GB RAM at NT$19,900 ($619), which is a huge drop from the original [...]
Have A Meal At The Windows 7 Restaurant
05/17/2010, Looks like Microsoft must have been quite satisfied with its Windows 7 Whopper deal a while back, as the software giant has opened a Windows 7-themed restaurant dubbed Hot Fried 77, and for the next two months, Microsoft is working [...]