Billaud lays out plan for Far Eastern Geant
... As part of a review of its supply chain, Far Eastern Geant is now testing a new inventory control system, which allows suppliers to examine inventory in each ...
Investors warm to memory-chip firms
Taiwanese makers of computer memory chips regained investor interest as chip prices are set to rebound on seasonal demand as early as late next month, after ...
Kmt says DPP is manipulating talks on Chinese tourism (updated AM ...
... will come to the inevitable conclusion that the government is deliberately boycotting mainland sightseers and sacrificing a money-making opportunity for Taiwan ...
Gamers get some exercise at E3
... Their powerful processors and video cards promise gamers photorealistic experiences that will become increasingly difficult to differentiate from computer ...
Four players tie up Sybase Classic after two rounds
... Kim Joo-mi, who is 49th on the money list, had a 65 to match the low round of the tournament as she broke 70 for the first time on tour. ...
Official talks needed for entry of Chinese tourists: MAC (updated ...
... including qualifications of the tourists, verification of their identities, repatriation of overstayed visitors, and regulations for travel agencies, he added. ...
Oh considers health insurance policy revisions
To reduce the local health insurance program's burgeoning deficit, the Health Department is mulling a new policy that would require patients to pay full fees ...
Lifestyle diseases are laying low more children
... Type-2 diabetes takes hold slowly without showing noticeable symptoms. ... In the same way, high blood pressure, metabolic and blood vessel problems, which can ...
Emc re-invents itself: Q&A with EMC director Ricky Chung
The need for mass data storage exploded in the 1990s, and one of the companies that rode the crest of that wave was US based EMC. ...
Apacer: back to the top five
... We believe that inventory control is more important than protection mechanisms such as holograms or unusual marking techniques. ...
China's easing of tourism rules boosts travel stocks
... To capitalize on an expected flood of tourists wanting to visit Taiwan, many travel agencies in China have come up with travel packages ranging in price from NT ...
Government loans will not be enough to revitalize economy ...
... yesterday announced details of its latest economic stimulus package, which includes an additional NT$200 billion (US$6.4 billion) in bank loans to small and ...
Taiwan welcomes opportunity to receive Chinese tourists (Updated ...
... China's National Tourism Bureau would allow mainlanders to join travel agency tours to Taiwan, including a seven-day package for less than 7,000 yuan (US$845 ...
Pioneer test at Ardentec: An interview with Dr. CY Lu, part three
... Q: Design companies sometimes comment that growing demand for mixed signal and analog chips, or mixed signal and analog as aspects of an integrated design or ...
Taiwan IC design houses increase handset related IC design
The increasing WLAN applications for the upcoming 3G handsets have pushed local IC design companies to increase the amount of ICs they currently design, the ...
Hon Hai to buy HP's Australian plant
By Lisa Wang. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), the nation's biggest electronics manufacturer, yesterday said it will ...
Hewlett-packard sees Q2 profits jump 9.3 percent
US high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday posted a 9.3 percent gain in quarterly earnings, helped by better sales results in its personal-computer and ...
Hewlett-packard to sell Australia unit to Hon Hai
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest seller of personal computers, will sell its unit in Australia to Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which will ...
Foxconn to buy HP assembling plants in India and Australia
Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry), the world s second-largest EMS (electronics manufacturing service) provider ...
Reputed Chinatown snakehead goes on trial in New York
The woman allegedly behind a 1993 voyage that ended in the deaths of 10 illegal Chinese immigrants in the waters off New York went on trial, accused of running ...
Aopen to introduce Pentium M motherboard using desktop 915G ...
... features of the motherboard will include a 533MHz front side bus (FSB), one Gigabit LAN port, support for PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards, high-definition ...
Government may loosen China rules
... Powerchip Semiconductor Corp ( 力晶半導?), Taiwan's biggest computer memory chipmaker, and smaller rival ProMOS Technologies Inc ( 茂德科技 ...
Gm may help SAIC build a brand
... its own brand by 2007 as it ramps up research at its technical centers following the collapse of a planned tie-up with troubled British car company MG Rover. ...
Diplomacy requires engagement
... motels. Surprisingly, the motel rooms in Kiribati were extremely clean, although they are not too modern compared to five-star hotels. ...
Investors feeling more pessimistic
... sluggish local bourse, slowing economic growth and the nation's decreasing trade surplus, according to a survey released by JF Asset Management Taiwan yesterday ...
Pioneering test at Ardentec: An interview with Dr. CY Lu
... And if you did away with packaging, then of course you are left with a much smaller form factor -- the chip would have the smallest possible form factor. ...
Cash cards offer users financial heaven and hell
... Savings Bank (上海商銀). The bank, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, is not a cash-card issuer. Chen made the ...
Asia Pacific market: Intel 915 platform PCs drop below US$500
Prices for PC components supporting Intel s 915 platform and LGA775 Pentium 4 CPUs, including motherboards, PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards and DDR2 memory ...
isuppli: Reversal of fortune for TiVo and competitors?
... they want--along the lines of how TiVo pioneered "time shifting"--ie consumers watching TV when they want through the use of a digital video recorder (DVR ...
Lu against fingerprinting for ID card renewal (updated AM 00:15)
Vice President Annette Lu lashed out yesterday against the Cabinet decision to start fingerprinting all people above 14 years of age on July 1. ...
Q&a with Adam Judd, vice president of Juniper Asia Pacific
... could be DSL or wireless or really most anything and it all gets aggregated into some edge device, whether it sa wireless LAN device or a cable modem, and at ...
Pistons back up Rasheed with a bit of aggression
Rasheed Wallace said the Pistons would return to Detroit with their Eastern Conference semifinal series tied, 2-2. And he did his ...
Stash of Pollock work found in New York
A trove of 32 previously unknown works by abstract art icon Jackson Pollock has been discovered by a family friend, who said on Friday he would like them to ...
Building Albatron, building brand (part three)
... We prefer motherboards and VGA cards to be Albatron-branded shipments, maybe also wireless products and small-form-factor PCs (mini-barebones), but not monitors ...
'tanorexics' dread prospect of being pale
... Melanoma is the most common form of cancer in women 25 to 29. Studies have shown that tanning bed use increases a person's risk of developing skin cancer. ...
Forty years later, Vietnam veteran finds a paradise
... SAFETY CONCERNS: There are no current travel warnings issued by the US State Department (www.travel.state.gov) or restrictions by the Vietnamese government on ...
Us energy, utility sectors bear brunt of nervous trading
... Orders executed against those bids -- some as high as US$950 per share for a stock trading in the US$4 range -- were broken and removed from the tape, with the ...
Cooking up success
... Over the course of four years Wu eventually worked his way into the pastry kitchen of the Taipei Hyatt Hotel in 1994 where two mentors opened his eyes to the ...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, is a hereditary disease ...
... massive thickness (a septum measuring more than 3mm), adverse blood pressure response or ... daughter Samantha has all the warning signs, numerous symptoms and the ...
Protests spread to Kabul after deaths
Afghan students burned an American flag and shouted slogans against the US military yesterday, as protests at reported abuse of Islam's holy book at the US ...
Excerpts from the Greater-China press: May 13
... Princeton Technology, the Taiwan sales agent for SanDisk, stated that SanDisk will roll out a new memory card for the US market in the third quarter and ...
Taipei auto-parts show may be bigger than ever
... The Taipei exhibition is Asia's largest auto-parts and accessories exhibition and also the third-largest automotive aftermarket industry expo in the world ...
Bush needs to engage in global warming issues
... Now, with the Kyoto talks this month in Bonn, Germany, the United States looks to be doing more of the same on global warming: nothing. ...
Moscow City Ballet storms Taiwan with famed Russia technique
... of the Russian invasion is in full swing thanks to the Moscow City Ballet, which is storming Taiwan's dance world with productions of Swan Lake and Cinderella. ...
Sabre makes offer to purchase Lastminute.com
... takeover approach. IAC/InterActiveCorp's Expedia, the world's largest Internet travel agency, or Cendant Corp, the industry's No. 2 ...
Ford's credit rating lowered by second agency in a week
One week after the Ford Motor Co lost its investment-grade rating from Standard & Poor's, a second credit rating agency on Thursday lowered its assessment of ...
Researcher expects tighter panel supply this quarter
... The short-term contraction of supply comes from increasing demand for panels used for desktop computer monitors and LCD TVs, combined with the slow ramp-up of ...
Government in talks to acquire land
... Liu said that the company has several scenarios under consideration now, including building a fifth-generation plant mainly for computer monitors, as well as a ...
Cht, Taiwan Mobile, FET hope to keep 2G numbers for 3G services
... licensees of 3G services in Taiwan, hope to encourage their existing 2G subscribers to use 3G services by allowing them to keep their existing phone numbers. ...
Building Albatron, building brand (part two)
... Q: Which motherboard form factor do you see most prospective? A: We do not spend too much time and effort on studying any form factor ...
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