Tag Archives : Taiwan

At Display Taiwan 2010, AUO presented the 2.4 inch transparent AMOLED multi-touch screen for the GPS devices and the real time devices embedded with this transparent multi-touch display are expected some time in 2011. According to the company they are also working for 4 and 7 inch multi-touch transparent screens similar to this 2.4 inch prototype. As company is saying that they are created this 2.4-inch multi-touch transparent display for GPS devices but as it’s touch display is much responsive so it could also be used for the mobiles and some other devices. Watch out the AUO’s 2.4-inch [...]

The laptops used by mobile gamers have to be powerful beasts in order to offer the kind of smooth, detailed graphics and slick gameplay exacting users demand. The latest example to make claim to the title of fastest laptop in the world is the X8100 from Taiwan’s Clevo. The credentials begin with a choice of three Core i7 processors, either one or two nVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics processors with SLI technology support, a 18.4in full high definition display, up to 8Gb DDR3 memory, space for up to three SATA drives and touch sensitive hot keys. Clevo offers the gamer a choice of Intel [...]

What’s this, a new way to win that Parent of the Year award? Strap your tot into Valentin Vodev’s Roller Buggy, and you’re off on an adventure. Don’t worry, there’s a hand control to engage its hydraulic disc brakes on the front two wheels to stop you if things get out of hand. When you take the baby to Grandma’s, conceal the buggy’s scooter extension, and it’ll just look like a weird stroller with no one suspecting a thing. I’m just glad my mom didn’t have one of these when I was a kid. So far, it’s a prototype, winning the Third [...]

In addition to showing us some of the craziest buildings every constructed, the Shanghai Expo also gives us a look at the new Aurora Boys robots. Designed by Taiwan’s Aurora Group, for now the sole purpose of the series of non-commercial robots are to represent the future of the country’s technology sector to the rest of the world. Standing 3 feet tall, the robots feature interactive, chest-mounted displays and can be programmed to act in unison. You can see video of the Aurora Boys in action here. Via Plastic Pals

PONTE VEDRA: Second seeded Alona Bondarenko was sent crashing out of the WTA MPS Group Championships on Tuesday after being upset by unseeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 4-6, 6-0. Govortsova, who is ranked 52nd in the world, breezed through the final set after winning the first then stumbling in the second against 25th-ranked Bondarenko. In other matches, American Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 6-7 (4/7), 7-5; Angelique Kerber beat American Vania King 6-2, 6-3; Ayumi Morita surprised Sesil Karatantcheva 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 and China”s Peng Shuai defeated Taiwan”s [...]

HTC has announced a huge profit for the first quarter of 2010, riding the wave of its critically acclaimed smartphones to report a net profit of just over 5.03 billion Taiwan dollars (c£103 million). Considering the massive global impact of the HD2 and of course the UK’s current hottest phones the Desire and Legend, HTC’s promising start to the year still surpassed expectations, although the company did dip slightly from the last quarter of 2009. White label to hero HTC has gone from a respected but low key phone manufacturer making Windows Mobile handsets to be branded up by other [...]

TAIPEI: Around 6,000 members of the same family gathered in Taiwan for a traditional festival to honour their ancestors, a report said Tuesday. The Yeh family travelled from as far afield as the United States, Australia and Brazil to Taiwan”s northern county of Taoyuan for the Tomb-Sweeping Festival on Monday, the Apple Daily newspaper said. The crowd thronged a square in front of the family tomb and surrounding roads, burning nearly ten tonnes (22,000 pounds) of ritual paper money and setting off hundreds of firecrackers in honour of the dead. Taiwanese faithful believe burning [...]

BEIJING: China has announced that President Hu Jintao will take part in a summit on nuclear security in the United States on April 12-13, signaling an end of strained relations between the countries. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday that Hu would stop in Washington on his way to South America. Previously, it had not been clear if Hu would attend the summit, or stay away because of Chinese unhappiness over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and a meeting between Obama and exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama.

Asus has made a name for itself with netbooks. I remember when I first started writing about the Eee PC (before my time writing about it for DVICE), it was odd to think of a cheap computer as something super desirable. eMachines were cheap computers you bought your grandmother, but they didn’t pack enough punch to do all the computing a tech-savvy person would want to do. Fast forward to today: The Eee PC is the perfect companion to a student or traveler, and Jonney Shih, Asus’s chairman, is credited as one of the key visionaries behind the netbook boom. Now he’s got his sights [...]

Following Google’s announcement that it is moving its search services out of China due to censorship worries, a number of Yahoo emails belonging to journalists in China and Taiwan have been hacked. A number of journalists in China and Taiwan were unable to access their accounts last week beginning on March 25. US journalists affected Kathleen McLaughlin, a freelance journalist in Beijing and Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times were both affected by the hack. A number of human rights activists and journalists in China had similarly discovered their Gmail accounts had unknowingly been forwarded [...]