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The curious case of the cables on the seabed
Blog There was a similar incident in the area on Boxing Day 2006 because of the Taiwan earthquake. Some news about damp fat pipes - some good, some intriguing. Last week, a bunch of Asian undersea fibre cables got cut.
[August 18, 2009, 17:22]
PC Expo: Net apps and wireless
News First International Computer, a Taiwan-based computer-maker, will be demonstrating an Internet appliance called the Aqua Web Pad, though details of the device are sketchy. That will be the pitch from Gateway and AOL, which will be demonstrating Net...
[June 27, 2000, 9:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But he's off doing good - with luck - in Taiwan, where he's behind closed doors (although with open windows, one hopes) and talking to hardware manufacturers about opening up driver information. Thursday 26/5/05
[May 27, 2005, 19:10]
Wanted: Software researchers in China
News Over the next two years, the company will intensify its study of these areas with help from Asian educational institutions such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Sydney, Tokyo University and Taiwan's Tsinghua...
[May 10, 2002, 13:28]
Intel adds two new Atoms for netbooks
News Demand is such that, in March, Intel announced it would begin outsourcing Atom production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) in order to increase the chip's availability. Intel on Wednesday introduced two new Atom processors for mobile...
[April 8, 2009, 16:56]
Sony pleads innocent in latest rootkit fiasco
News McAfee reported that Taiwan's FineArt Technology, which makes encryption software for PCs and laptops, was responsible for creating the offending software. Sony claims the rootkit-like behaviour of a device driver used to run its biometric Micro...
[August 31, 2007, 9:11]
AMD ready to unleash Puma
News The official announcement is expected to come later on Wednesday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. On this occasion, AMD is ready with a major product launch on schedule and is enjoying a bit of good fortune as well.
[June 4, 2008, 10:05]
Microsoft reorients itself
Leader It shipped software into China from Taiwan, not noticing that a rogue programmer had inserted political messages. Congratulations to the People's Republic of China and Microsoft on forming an alliance that unites two great movements for...
[April 18, 2006, 15:45]
Analysis: Acer, the invisible giant, wants to be seen
News A new channel and marketing strategy, announced Thursday in Dublin, is designed to cut costs and speed up lead times and represents the latest brainwave of Stan Shih -- Acer's high profile chairman, and Taiwan's sole computer personality.
[September 11, 1998, 13:20]
Via goes supersmall with motherboard
News Via showed the Nano-ITX at the Computex trade show in Taiwan in 2003, saying it was geared for embedded computing applications rather than standard PCs. Via Technologies has begun selling a new supersmall motherboard that's just 4.8 inches square...
[March 22, 2004, 9:35]
Warning issued on international domains
News The term 'language' is avoided in this context, as the Chinese language is used differently in China and Taiwan, for example. "If you're not frightened, you don't understand the problem. This was the warning given to the Icann public forum...
[March 13, 2001, 10:24]
UK slow to take up broadband, says report
News Hong Kong has 7.6 percent of homes ready for broadband, Singapore has four percent and Taiwan nearly two percent. Only one percent of UK homes have a broadband connection, six times lower than France's one in fifteen homes, according to research...
[October 18, 2000, 15:01]
Dell to offer giant screen notebook
News The huge LCD will support XGA resolutions of 1280x1024 pixels and offer a viewing area just an inch less than an orthodox 17-inch CRT desktop monitor according to sources in Taiwan familiar with the product specification.
[July 14, 1998, 6:32]
Microsoft's 'freedom and democracy' row in China
News The words for 'demonstration', 'democratic movement' and 'Taiwan independence' are also said to be banned. Microsoft may have banned the words 'democracy' and 'freedom' from the Chinese version of its MSN website.
[June 13, 2005, 17:30]
Microsoft settles patent case with mouse maker
News Microsoft sued the Taiwan-based company over seven patents related to U2 technology, which allows a mouse to connect to either a PS/2 or USB port and automatically detect which is being used, and Tilt Wheel technology, which relates to cursor...
[December 18, 2008, 11:19]
Scottish hoteliers jam mobiles
News Businessman Ronnie McGuire -- owner of Electron Electrical Engineering Services -- imports these gadgets from Taiwan, and sells them to hotels, restaurants, bars and bed and breakfasts, said the report.
[September 1, 2003, 9:30]
Analyst downgrades Microsoft on PC worries
News Crook penned his report after Prudential researchers visited computer manufacturers in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Prudential Securities analyst Douglas J Crook downgraded his estimates on Microsoft Wednesday, citing more ominous news about PC...
[December 13, 2000, 14:58]
DVD chipmakers sued by Hollywood
News According to the MPAA, US firm Sigma Designs and Taiwan-based MediaTek each have sold DVD-player chips to companies that offer features in their products that aren't allowed under the general DVD technology license.
[August 24, 2004, 8:30]
Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptops
News In November, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to start producing the green-and-white computer in its new Changshu manufacturing centre, which is located north-west of Shanghai.
[December 3, 2007, 7:10]
Vulnerable Web
Blog Credit to our esteemed news editor Graeme Wearden for turning that one over, but it rather does bemuse me how easy it is for a whole nation — Taiwan in this case — to lose its internet access. Christmas is always a bit of a quiet time for news.
[January 2, 2007, 15:39]
