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Tuesday 28 June 2005
FVD players to be PC friendly
Taiwan’s Opto-Electronics Systems & Laboratories (OES) of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently extended its FVD (forward versatile...
Monday 27 June 2005
TwinMOS launches Sushi MP3 Player
TwinMOS Technologies, primarily known as a DRAM-module maker (ranked number 11 globally for 2004 by iSuppli), has announced a new flash-based MP3 Player, the Sushi MMD101.
Tuesday 21 June 2005
Biostar aims to ship 90,000 SFF PCs this year
Biostar Microtech International expects to ship 90,000 iDEQ-series small form factor (SFF) systems in 2005, up 38% on year, according to company chairman Wang Ming-I. The motherboard...
Tuesday 14 June 2005
HTC to ship 3G PDA phone in 3Q
High Tech Computer (HTC) will start volume shipments of its first 3G PDA phones by the end of the third quarter, CEO HT Cho said yesterday at the company’s annual shareholders...
Monday 13 June 2005
Computex phone wrap-up: WiFi and tri-band
During the recent Computex 2005 show, Wistron NeWeb (WNC) was displaying its first WiFi phone that supports both the 802.11b and 802.11g standards. The company stated the model will...
Monday 6 June 2005
BenQ previews Blu-ray DVD burner
BenQ demonstrated its BW1000 prototype blue-laser DVD burner at the recently concluded Computex 2005 and the company plans to start volume producing the product in the first or second...
Monday 6 June 2005
DocExpress wins this reporter’s Computex gadget award
However high-tech a reporter tries to make reports from Computex, there’s a side to the show that is oriented to what can only be described as the gadget freak. Journos legging...
Monday 6 June 2005
Mio to introduce PDA phone with integrated GPS in 2H
Mio Technology, an own-brand division of Mitac International, expects to debut a PDA phone with a built-in GPS module in the second half of this year, according to Michael Hsu, Marketing...
Friday 3 June 2005
Iwill sets September launch date for dual-Opteron SLI SFF PC
Iwill is exhibiting a dual-Opteron small-form-factor (SFF) PC that supports two graphics cards using Nvidia's nForce4 SLI (scalable link interface) technology at Computex 2005, with...
Friday 3 June 2005
Shuttle to launch SLI XPC in July
Shuttle aims to launch its XN26P XPC, which supports Nvidia’s SLI (Scalable Link Interface) dual-graphics card technology, by the end of July, according to sources at the com...
Friday 3 June 2005
Gigabyte and AOpen exhibit pico-BTX solutions at Computex
Gigabyte Technology and AOpen are exhibiting pico-BTX systems at the ongoing Computex 2005 show, with Gigabyte marketing its system for its ease of assembly, while AOpen expects the...
Thursday 2 June 2005
Apple iPod Shuffle lookalike continues drawing attention
Although Apple was able to temporarily banish Luxpro’s Super Shuffle MP3 player at CeBIT this year, Taiwan-based...
Thursday 2 June 2005
Will Shuttle stay high-end or look to go mainstream: An interview with Jonathan Yi
A long-term fixture in Taiwan’s motherboard industry, Shuttle phased out its motherboard business at the end of 2004, and now focuses its business around its XPC small-form-factor...
Thursday 2 June 2005
Shuttle turbo-charges its G-chassis
Although small-form-factor (SFF) PC vendors do not in general offer customers the option of purchasing motherboard for upgrading their systems, Shuttle is displaying a number of XPC...
Thursday 2 June 2005
AOpen does me-too Mac mini with Wintel Mini PC
Motherboard maker and Pentium M desktop specialist AOpen introduced a Pentium M-based mini PC, codenamed Pandora, at Computex 2005, with the Wintel-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC...