Etched into the back of every iPhone are the words “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.” Apple might as well have added “Made in Taiwan.”

With little fanfare, Taiwan companies are playing a big role not only in the production of Apple’s latest device but in a wide array of other communications equipment, including the broadband modems in homes across the United States and the next generation of high-speed wireless gear.

Apple does not discuss which vendors it uses, but news reports in Taiwan said that Hon Hai and Quanta received orders to produce millions of iPhone handsets, reports that those companies declined to confirm. Other manufacturers there were almost certainly involved because they provide components used in advanced phones, industry analysts said.

Taiwan companies also have a hand in making iPods and iMacs, they said, as well as game machines for Sony and Microsoft.

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Few e-commerce companies scour Asia’s electronics markets like Dynamism.com. This company imports and sells cellphones, laptops and accessories fresh from the streets of Tokyo and Seoul. Its latest catch is the Raon Everun ultramobile PC, a minicomputer that is six inches long and runs Microsoft Windows XP.

The PC, which starts at $799, has a 4.8-inch touchscreen and a full mini-keyboard with touchpad. It has a comparatively slow processor from A.M.D. — about 500 megahertz in the $799 configuration — but it can run Microsoft Office applications and simple games. Dynamism sells the device with a 30- or 60-gigabyte hard drive or 6 gigabytes of solid-state flash memory, which the PC uses like a regular drive. A hybrid version with both a drive and flash memory is available for $1,099.

The Everun, which will be available later this month, weighs about a pound and is compatible with the 802.11b/g and Bluetooth wireless standards.

While the Everun looks like a Palm Treo on steroids, the device can make only Skype and other Internet calls, with the right software.

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The Intel Corporation reversed ground Friday and joined the board of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, an ambitious effort to seed the developing world with inexpensive portable computers.

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Nicholas Negroponte showing his laptop in Davos, Switzerland.

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Singaporean blogging community Ping.sg held their first anniversary gathering on the 07/07/07 in Geek Terminal. I’m not really active in the Singaporean blogosphere, therefore I only can recognize 3 people from the photo; that’s Ming of Nuffnang, Sparklette and Josh of Advertlets. 89 registered for the event but from the group photo taken, it seems there’s only half. However it’s nice to see bloggers getting together. I’m sure other countries are doing the same, and these kinds of events will just get more and more. Speaking of which, it reminds me of the Malaysian Together Gather Bloggers Party organized by Rojaks. Good job brother.

Malaysian Together Gather Bloggers Party

Here’s a group photo of Malaysia’s Bloggers Together Gather.

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Ping.sg photo taken from p1ngpeople

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According to some recent rumors, the Italian Parliament has decided to switch to Linux more than 3,500 desktop computers and 200 servers. The Linux distribution that would be most probably used is said to be Novel’s SuSE Linux, even though many considered Ubuntu as more appropriate.

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Those who have heard of XDrive before would have remembered it.  In the days before YouSendIt, XDrive was the best free way to share files over the Internet.

Then XDrive began to charge.  Now it belongs to AOL (America On-Line).

Now Microsoft is eyeing to offer a free half-TB (Terabyte) drive on the Internet via their free “Live” space.  It’ll be known as Windows Live Drive or Folders so far.

So far it’s only being made available to selected beta testers, but expect news soon on the Windows Live Space about this free 500GB Internet drive.  With Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft offering Gigabytes of mail storage, the next step would be to offer free Internet storage, and it looks like Microsoft might be the first there.

Source : Yahoo News (Yeah, it’s ironic isn’t it?)

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