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  1. Girls ride tube with no trousers on

    It was a case of better late than never for Taiwan, as 20 girls in knickers took part in the worldwide craze of No Trousers Day - but a month behind schedule. The crazy celebration, which makes it OK to be caught with your trousers down on the tube, has caught on around the world. The...
  2. Gigabyte shows off its new S1080 Windows 7 slate in Taiwan to little fanfare and even less excietmen

    So, while all the cool kids were showing off their wares at CES , the good people at Gigabyte decided to throw their own tablet party across the Pacific. The S1080 is the slate you never asked for, in that it runs Windows 7 on a dual core Atom N550 processor underneath a 10.1-inch capacitive...
  3. Windows 7 GeForce Chipsets Officially Become History

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Earlier this year Nvidia Corp. merged chipset and system-on-chip development teams in order to strengthen the Tegra product line. On Thursday chief executive officer of Nvidia officially said that the company was no longer building chipsets, which probably...
  4. FIC launches 10.1-inch Windows 7 Tycoon tablet, prices it at $660

    Way back at Computex , a little orange tablet brazenly called the Tycoon seared our retinas and won our hearts. Now it's going on to charm early adopting tableteers everywhere. Well, everywhere in Taiwan, anyway, with maker FIC indicating it will sell its first tablet on Saturday, priced at...
  5. FIC unveils Windows 7 tablet PC Tycoon

    First International Computer (FIC), a second-tier Taiwan-based PC and consumer electronics ODM, on November 10 debuted the Tycoon, a tablet PC based on Windows 7 Home Premium, for sale in the Taiwan market under its own brand and overseas on an ODM basis, according to the company. More...
  6. Where in the world are Microsoft's datacenters?

    Microsoft is Link Removed at a rapid clip, as part of the company’s stated mission to introduce a cloud version and/or cloud components of all of its existing software products. While Microsoft does share some information about what’s inside these datacenters, the company seldom provides an...
  7. Windows 7 Taiwanese boffins come up with 16nm chip

    A group of Taiwanese boffins claims to have successfully developed the world's first 16nm chip. National Nano Device Laboratories said it managed to create the first 16nm chip, but don't expect to see the tech in real products anytime soon. Yang Fu-liang, the lab's chief, told AFT that the...