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A little girl from Taiwan got her teeth knock off while she was lying flat on bed, playing the iPad. She was properly holding the tablet in one hand, the other hand was busy doing the touching and scrolling. After playing for some time, she was too tired to hold it and just slipped off the device from her hand straight to her face. The corner has hit hard into her mouth, the little girl’s teeth has partially cracked …
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, who has often been accused of running “sweatshops” at the company’s factories in China said that there is nothing wrong with working his employees hard as long as the company is not breaking the law. “What’s wrong with sweatshops ? All farmers sweat before they harvest,” said Gou as he met a group of his Chinese employees who were chosen to a free trip to Taiwan at the company’s expense. As a reward to the hard working employees, each has received a free iPhone, cash bonus and some party dancing with the CEO …
A retire old man, Mr. Chen, is living on a mountain in southern Taiwan. Owing to the poor communication infrastructure in the mountainous area, mobile phones are useless. He has a friend who lives 200 meters away at the peak of another hill. While they want to meet each other for high-tea and a chat, the two set off firecrackers as a signal. If one sees sparks set off by the other, he answers back with explosions of his own, imitating an ancient signaling tradition …
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is due to launch officially on May 3rd, and for those Samsung fanboys who can’t wait to see the new Galaxy, someone in Taiwan has taken pictures of the new Galaxy phone that shows the model number GT -I9300. Check out the pictures after the break!
Finally, Foxconn workers have the chance to have some experience on using the Apple’s iPhone while touring in Taiwan. Foxconn has invited over 200 employees to Taiwan for a seven-day free tour and the company will be footing the bill for all costs involved, rewarding them for their hard work and contribution. These high-performing workers are rewarded free iPhone and cash award, and they are scheduled to visit many popular tourist sites in Taiwan. This is certainly a 100 percent PR show plan out by Foxconn, telling the whole world their employees are working in a company with happiness …
A group of Chinese workers from Foxconn were invited to travel to Taiwan for a seven-day free tour, courtesy of their employer. The 217 Foxconn employees from 17 provinces and 21 factories in China are scheduled to visit many popular tourist sites in Taiwan. Foxconn will be footing the bill for all costs involved, because the tour is part of a plan by chairman Terry Gou to help reduce worker stress and encourage high-performing workers. These excellent workers had be chosen and they will get rewarded for their hard work and contribution to Foxconn, they will each received an Apple iPhone and 5,000 yuan (US$792) cash award …
Gigabyte, the well-known Taiwanese motherboard company, has recently updated one of its production lines over at Nan-Ping factory in Taiwan. Their new SMT machine now can fit 15 SMD components a second to a motherboard, up from 10 components per second when compared to the machines used in the other production lines. Gigabyte is also busy working on an automatic solution for adding capacitors to the motherboards. Click in to watch the manufacturing video, it’s really an advanced process which involves manpower and expensive machinery …
People have been waiting for this exciting hybrid device after Asus has been showing off its PadFone concept for nearly a year. Finally, it debut in MWC just a couple of months ago, and it started taking pre-orders in Taiwan yesterday. ASUS big wigs like Jonney Shih & Jerry Shen were presented in the ceremony and announced pre-order starting April 6 and would be hitting the streets on April 20. The company also disclosed Padfone will be heading to a few other countries including Singapore, Hong Kong & Germany, but they didn’t provide with a specific time frame.
A Taiwanese hot chick has bought a unique holder stand for her iPad, and she gave us a sexy unboxing and review on her bed. The Chinese girl was wearing sexy low-cut pajamas while demoing how to use the new accessory. She was too shy to show her face, but her body and long legs are very eye-catching. After these photo have been sharing around on the internet, it got high praise by online viewer but at the same time they couldn’t get too much attention on the review of the gadget. Taiwan business man always love to have this kind of sexy marketing, especially when it can go viral. So if you are interested on this ‘iGet’ tablet holder stand with alien-looking legs, you can check out their official site or Amazon store. More sexy photo after the break.
In the past decade China’s growing military capability has attracted a great deal of attention. While it is true that China is modernizing its forces and increasing defense spending, the prospective improvements in overall military capability need to be set against the very low-technology starting point of China’s armed forces. China are about 20 years behind the U.S. technologically. In fact, China is only building up its military to defend its sovereignty and “core interests”. (bombing Taiwan ? ) As it is known to all, the United States is a super-power in the world today, how can China easily have the ability to challenge it ? And while China’s military hardware may still lag behind the U.S., its cyber capabilities may be on par with or ahead of the U.S. Check out the visual comparison after the break.
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