Taiwan Science & Technology News

New York.– Apple Inc. will launch a smaller "worldmode" iPhone next year that will be ready for Verizon Wireless to sell in the third quarter of 2010, according to an analyst report citing unnamed handset maker sources in Taiwan. Verizon's...

As health officials in British Columbia brace for a resurgence of the H1N1 swine flu virus, the province and B.C. Medical Association have agreed the province's doctors will be paid to diagnose and treat swine flu over the phone.

Minister of Health Yaung Chih-liang is proposing what he calls betel nut tax to improve public health and increase Taiwan's tax revenue. Yaung broached his idea of a new tax or surtax to lawmakers on the floor of the Legislative...

Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Cloud computing -- the hosting and...

Is smart-phone pioneer BlackBerry in danger of becoming the AOL of the mobile-device market? Verizon Wireless's launch on Friday of the Droid phone, a Motorola-built handset using Google's Android operating system, signals the opening of a new front in the...

advertisement Psychiatrists struggling to draft a new manual to diagnose mental illness haven't agreed it's a mental illness yet. But mental health professionals are already gauging, parsing and analyzing Internet addiction, which bears all the hallmarks of addictive behavior.

Apple's 'Air Freight' Comments Spark Tablet Rumors 10.20.09 When it comes to Apple , you take rumors where you can get them. When a company is so tight-lipped, inspiration comes from strange places. Recently most rumors have been the result...