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  <description><![CDATA[From cloner haven to global heavyweight, Taiwan continues to reinvent itself]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[You down with MOD?]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63005746]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Media On Demand (MOD), the great gray hope of pay content, may someday be worthwhile in some countries. Will it ever be worth a damn in Taiwan? Not likely.<br />
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Chunghwa ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:08:56 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fizzle, not sizzle, for Wii launch]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63004823]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[About 30 dog years after the rest of the world fell in love with Nintendo Wii, Taiwan is finally getting a legit Chinese-language model. That's right, while the rest of you ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:07:10 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[An unhappy Apple marriage]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63004193]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[It seems Taiwan mobile phone maker HTC can't cut a break. The company made serious waves with its (sadly) Windows-centric smart phones over the last year. Its new, hot Touch Diamond ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:06:28 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why Motorola should just go away]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63003847]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Well, kids, guess what? Never made it to Moto's Taipei "party" for the MotoROKR E8. Please allow me to bitch and explain why. Motorola set up a Facebook event for the ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 21:05:18 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Moto wants to party]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63003775]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[This Friday, Motorola will host a party at Taipei's trendy and perpetually overcrowded hotspot Room 18 (think a Shanghai subway car at rush hour). It seems an attempt to revitalize a ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:05:54 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Recipe for telecom consolidation]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63003177]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Delta and Northwest Airlines may be getting together in the US, with rumors of other possible carrier consolidations. This is always a good idea in a bloated industry with more players ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:04:04 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trouble ahead for Taiwan Yahoo!]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002652]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[You ever heard of Yahoo/Kimo? No, probably not. It's the local unit of Yahoo and it's a sign of what's wrong with the company.<br />
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It held a *press conference* (wonder ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:03:14 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Who will roll out NFC for mobile in Taiwan?]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002212]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Last October, digital security company Gemalto announced a partnership with Taiwan's Far EasTone telecom to roll out trial and full-on near field communications (NFC) SIM card technology for contactless transactions. So ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:02:09 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[And the survey says: Taiwan is a 3rd-world country!]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002101]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[The Institute for Information Industry, which besides having a grammatically challenged name, is apparently a Taiwan government department that does something... commissioning surveys and not much else. A branch of this ...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:02:15 +0800</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Betting the farm on Eee]]></title>
  <link><![CDATA[http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/theroc/post.htm?id=63002016]]></link>      
  <description><![CDATA[Asustek has made waves worldwide with its "Eee" sub-notebook, which I find to be crapulent and not a good middle road between an iPod touch and a real notebook.<br />
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Now, ...</br></br>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:01:24 +0800</pubDate>
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