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Article | 25/01/2011 Taiwan's top supercomputer, a research aid, due in July

Government-backed researchers in Taiwan have developed the island's fastest supercomputer to be used from July for a range of scientific and academic ...

Article | 25/01/2011 Memory-chip prices set to rise with DRAM demand in Q2

Taiwan’s largest computer memory chipmaker on Tuesday forecast a jump in demand for its components in the second quarter of the year as orders from co...

Article | 24/01/2011 China Unicom, Telefónica grow closer

Telecom giants China Unicom and Telefónica have agreed to invest more in each other while raising their joint competitiveness in purchasing, roaming a...

Article | 21/01/2011 Asustek sees netbook sales flat in 2011

Asustek Computer, a top manufacturer of netbook PCs, anticipates a global slowdown in growth of the lightweight laptops as tablets gain ground.

Article | 20/01/2011 HP orders probe into Hurd's departure, report says

Hewlett-Packard plans to commission an external probe into the resignation of former CEO Mark Hurd, including his controversial multi-million dollar s...

Article | 18/01/2011 Hands-only remote control emerges in Taiwan

A Taipei university team has developed a tiny chip that allows remote control over home appliances with no more than a wave of the hand and features t...

Article | 18/01/2011 Acer to launch 7-inch and 10-inch tablets before July

Acer will begin selling two or three new tablet PCs in the first half of the year, including one with a seven-inch screen, a company sales manager sai...

Article | 14/01/2011 Taiwan develops face-recognition vending machine

Government-funded researchers in Taiwan have developed a vending machine that recommends purchases based on people's faces, one of the inventors said ...

Article | 13/01/2011 EU to scrap monitor, printer, set-top box tariffs in June

World trade authorities have ordered the European Union to scrap tariffs on three types of consumer electronics from Taiwan, Japan and the United Stat...

Article | 12/01/2011 Spectrum analyzer catches exam cheats in Taiwan

Police in Taiwan used a set of spectrum analyzers to catch at least three people suspected of cheating on an exam by monitoring them for mobile phone ...

Article | 12/01/2011 Taiwan's Compal to raise laptop part prices

Compal Electronics, one of the world’s biggest contract laptop makers, will raise component prices this year to shore up a drop in profits, affecting ...

Article | 10/01/2011 Tablets, Internet-linked smart sensors to star at Computex

Computex, the world’s second-largest computer show, will grow in scale this year with tablet PCs and new object-locator Internet technology as the hea...

Article | 10/01/2011 WiMax update set for go-ahead this year

A faster, more secure and energy-efficient update to the WiMax wireless Internet standard will get final approval and see commercialization within a y...

Article | 7/01/2011 BitTorrent to put its stamp on Taiwanese electronics

BitTorrent will work with a Taiwanese research institute to develop a certification scheme for local consumer electronics makers who want to put its f...

Article | 6/01/2011 Gigabyte releases new high-speed motherboards

Gigabyte Technology on Thursday released a series of high-speed motherboards designed to let more applications run at once, without losing speed, and ...