Category: TECHNOLOGY

And since 1979 the United States has maintained official diplomatic relations only with Beijing, even though it pursued unofficial ties with Taipei. China and Taiwan ... broad range of financial services, plus telecommunications, the internet, culture ... ( read original story ...)

When he created the VR Taipei meetup group on Meetup.com, he wanted to promote virtual reality (VR) in Taiwan by bringing together people who shared an interest in the up-and-coming technology. “I just saw that Taipei had all of this talent,” he said. ( read original story ...)

A while back, DigiTimes reported that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM), a major contract chip manufacturer, planned to introduce an enhanced variant of its 16nm manufacturing technology dubbed "12nm." On the chipmaker's most recent ... ( read original story ...)

Sony Mobile Communications saw its share in the over NT$15,000 (US$475) segment of the Android smartphone market in Taiwan increase to 35% in 2016 from 24% of a year earlier, according to a Chinese-language media report, citing Jonathan Lin, general ... ( read original story ...)

Taipei and San Jose, CA – Businesses throughout Taiwan can now accelerate their adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and deliver new connected experiences to their customers, thanks to Asia Pacific Telecom and Cisco. Asia Pacific Telecom today ... ( read original story ...)

MediaTek Inc successfully concluded its "Smartphone Design Training Program" created to accelerate the "Make in India" initiative. MediaTek has developed the training program to foster and educate talent for India's fast-growing handset industry by sharing ... ( read original story ...)

featuring Precise Biometrics and Fingerprint Cards technology. This is the first announcement of the year from the identity authentication firm, while it is underway acquiring NexID Biometrics, a spoof mitigation and liveness detection solutions provider ... ( read original story ...)

Alexander Huang, a professor at Taiwan’s Tamkang University, said the choice to visit Twitter during the stopover did seem symbolic for a government with few outlets for official diplomacy. “Modern technology will enable a lot of new ways of ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI Taiwan's Powertech Technology Inc (6239.TW) said Friday it was terminating a share agreement with China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd, unraveling more than $2 billion in deal-making that the state-run Chinese giant had hoped to seal on the island. ( read original story ...)

Chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), aka TSMC ... "Due to stronger demand for TSMC's 16-nanometer technology and a more favorable exchange rate than our original forecast, fourth-quarter revenue surpassed the high-end of our guidance ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI: The chief of Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker ... a normally slower period for the technology sector, but remained conservative in their outlook. "It really comes from the seasonality of our customers in the mobile area ... ( read original story ...)

"Taiwan's semiconductor sector is on the path to recovery ... In December, key iPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, posted a 9.76% rise in sales, thanks to relatively robust demand for the 5.5 inch ... ( read original story ...)

The ratio of mid-range smartphones priced at NT$10,000-15,000 (US$313-470) to total smartphone sold in the Taiwan market is expected to grow to 15-16% in 2017, up from 11% at the end of 2016, according to Randy Lee, deputy general manager of mobile ... ( read original story ...)

HTC announced the Desire 650 low-end Android smartphone back in December, but the company confirmed the devices will be exclusively available in Taiwan, its home turf. In a surprising move, the handset maker announced recently that the HTC Desire 650 will ... ( read original story ...)

The deal has yet to be approved by Taiwan's Investment Commission despite an application three months ago, raising concern that the fund may be rejected amid a chill in political relations with China. It follows a $300 million Taiwan Entrepreneur Fund that ... ( read original story ...)

On Jan. 10, 2007, President Chen Shui-bian attended the inauguration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega during his Central America visit. Exactly 10 years later, it was again Ortega who hosted the R.O.C. head of state — President Tsai Ing-wen — in ... ( read original story ...)