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A new service package announced for the Taiwanese iPhone may suggest that Apple is allowing more freedom when it comes to carrier personalization. Local carrier Chunghwa Telecom has revealed the existence of Hami, a set of free services intended specifically for iPhone owners. People will have access to 11 services in total, including special news, weather and stock market trackers, as well as a...


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A new service package announced for the Taiwanese iPhone may suggest that Apple is allowing more freedom when it comes to carrier personalization. Local carrier Chunghwa Telecom has revealed the existence of Hami, a set of free services intended specifically for iPhone owners. People will have access to 11 services in total, including special news, weather and stock market trackers, as well as a...

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"A Taiwanese research institute on Friday revealed a folding display on a smartphone that allowed its screen to double in size to 5 inches./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The mock-up smartphone, developed to showcase the screen, is styled like other smartphones and opens like a book turned on its side so when open the display is on the top half and the bottom half is the keyboard./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Get the latest on mobile developments with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"Mobile Report newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"What users are actually seeing is only the top half of the display. The rest of the 5-inch screen is hidden underneath the keyboard and can be pulled up to reveal the full screen when required. To allow the screen to close down over the keyboard a 1-centimeter portion along the center is flexible./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Researchers at Taiwan#39;s publicly funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) developed the TFT-EPD (Thin Film Transistor Electrophoretic Display) screen with smartphones in mind./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Currently 5-inches is the only screen size available, but work is being done on other screen sizes, said Nick Vasiljevic, managing director of Pilotfish, the company ITRI hired to design the smartphone model./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"But for designers, the flexible 5-inch screen does offer other possibilities, he added. The hinge and flexible part of the screen can be in different places, so the screen could bend at the 3-inch mark instead of 2.5-inch mark./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Pictures of the smartphone appear to show a break at the center of the screen, so it looks almost like two separate screens, but that#39;s not the case./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"What looks like a break is actually a software taskbar similar to the one at the bottom of a PC screen. But the taskbar on the smartphone screen can be moved so the whole screen can be used for pictures, video, or anything else./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The flexible screen technology offers new possibilities for mobile phone makers, an important consideration at a time when companies are scrambling to develop Mobile Internet Devices, netbooks, smartphones, and other portable gadgets. Many companies say that finding the right screen size is key to such portable devices because people want to be able to surf the Internet or watch movies on as large a screen as possible./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"ITRI worked with Pilotfish on the smartphone design to show off the concept because it#39;s seeking handset makers interested in creating products around the technology. The technology will be ready next year./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"ITRI is also working to add touchscreen technology to the flexible screens, which will also likely be ready later next year./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ef2434a74ffc512df74d390b034026cap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ef2434a74ffc512df74d390b034026cap=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ef2434a74ffc512df74d390b034026ca style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

psmallCharlie Demerjian a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Thursday 20 November 2008. 18:38:00/small/ppi Bye bye channel, hello Asus parts /i/ppINTERESTING MOVES ARE rumored to be afoot in the Taiwanese OEM/ODM business. The whispers this time around are that Foxconn is going to be snapping up Pegatron. You might recall that about a year ago, Asus split up into three parts, Asus, Pegatron and Unihan..../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/2690a07/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Foxconn rumored to buy Pegatronlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/20/foxconn-rumored-pegatron" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Foxconn rumored to buy Pegatronlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/20/foxconn-rumored-pegatron" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192724812/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/40438279/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192724812/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/40438279/a2.img" border="0"//a

Il chipmaker taiwanese ha avviato una collaborazione con il progetto open source OpenChrome per sviluppare driver grafici per Linux a partire dalla stessa base di codice. L'azienda ha anche lanciato la nuova famiglia di GPU Chrome 500

Our brothers in gadgetry over at Engadget Chinese are at ASUS' Eee Top unveiling in Taipei. They've already been hands-on with the 15.6-inch all-in-one touchscreen PC and consider the build quality to be "ok," consistent with the traditional (read: non-S101) Eee PC netbooks. And while it includes an "Easy Mode" UI that runs on top of XP, launch anything other than an ASUS-built application and you're right back into XP's less finger-friendly interface. That's where the included stylus (hidden in the keyboard) comes into play. We also have a price: 18,900 Taiwanese dollars which is a tax inclusive price of about $580 in the US. It's available today in ASUS' home of Taiwan -- everyone else will have to wait for their local announcements. 'Till then, pics, plenty of pics.

Gallery: ASUS Eee Top

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div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/chinese.engadget.com/media/2008/11/img_4559.jpg" /br //div Our brothers in gadgetry over at emEngadget Chinese/em are at ASUS' a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/eee%20top"Eee Top/a unveiling in Taipei. They've already been hands-on with the 15.6-inch all-in-one touchscreen PC and consider the build quality to be "ok," consistent with the traditional (read: non-a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/s101"S101/a) Eee PC netbooks. And while it includes an "Easy Mode" UI that runs on top of XP, launch anything other than an ASUS-built application and you're right back into XP's less finger-friendly interface. That's where the included stylus (hidden in the keyboard) comes into play. We also have a price: 18,900 Taiwanese dollars which is a tax inclusive price of about $580 in the US. It's available today in ASUS' home of Taiwan -- everyone else will have to wait for their local announcements. 'Till then, pics, plenty of pics. br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-top/"ASUS Eee Top/a/strong/pa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-top/1173348/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/eeemonitor_white_08_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-top/1173343/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/eeetop-(16)_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-top/1173345/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/eeetop-(5)_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-top/1173352/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/eeetop_backport_w_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-top/1173347/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/eeetop_back_w_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/div br /a href="http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=enamp;langpair=zh-CN|enamp;u=http://chinese.engadget.com/2008/11/20/eeetop-hands-on/amp;usg=ALkJrhhmMWELM2QgZ8wJNP31n0lEslhXvg"Read/a -- Hands-onbr /a href="http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=enamp;langpair=zh-CN|enamp;u=http://chinese.engadget.com/amp;usg=ALkJrhjQXsQ7gVx8ccIEHpH_4EIS-NLF1Q"Read/a -- Announcement with more picturespFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/asus-eee-top-launched-loved-by-children-and-product-waifs/"ASUS Eee Top launched, loved by children and the product waifs who raise them/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:54:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/asus-eee-top-launched-loved-by-children-and-product-waifs/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1377848/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/asus-eee-top-launched-loved-by-children-and-product-waifs/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Yr5kxEgv5WsFptmNFV9AVs7qy14/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Yr5kxEgv5WsFptmNFV9AVs7qy14/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=fcWvnURu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=fcWvnURu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=fhwupmhU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=fhwupmhU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/eDa_GoykL6s" height="1" width="1"/