Taiwan dreams of TV future in crystal fields
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Ask Jack Lin about his plan to help his company, Chi Mei Optoelectronics, catch up with its bigger South Korean and Japanese rivals in the flat-screen TV market and he gestures toward a vast sugar cane field in southern Taiwan.
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Internet TV, mobile TV and video on  demand may be the talk of the technology sector but when it  comes to buying decisions at this week&#39;s IFA electronics fair,  television sets are set to be bigger business than ever.
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The city of Taipei plans to make wireless Internet access available throughout the Taiwanese capital by the end of next year.
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A company with offices in Palo Alto and Seoul called Thin Multimedia Inc. demonstrated a possibly disruptive concept: a kind of embedded IPTV that could endow handsets with the capacity and functionality of living-room set-top boxes.  The fact that Korean telecom giants are investing billions of won in mobile IPTV in areas where DVB-H is already popular, is indication that there could be a real spoiler in the midst for portable digital television.
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Christine Yu of Taipei has a master's degree from Britain and experience at a multinational company in Beijing. But she has trouble paying bills in her hometown in Taiwan, squeezed by the rising cost of living.
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The bright, vivid flat screens draw a crowd at show--but you won't see them outside of Japan for awhile.
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(InfoWorld) - Industry associations from India and Taiwan have signed an agreement to work more closely in the future on semiconductor technology, including building better business ties and finding further areas for collaboration. The India Semiconductor Association and Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association pledged in a memorandum of understanding signed Monday, to host more meetings, organize more events, seek out business opportunities, help companies from each place find partners, create an information database and more as time goes on. The agreement ties together one of the world's largest semiconductor producing economies, Taiwan, to one of the fastest growing markets in the world, India. India is also keen to build up its semiconductor prowess, officials said. Taiwan is home to the world's two largest contract chip makers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), as well as the biggest chip packaging and testing company, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. The island also boasts the second biggest chip design industry by revenue, behind only the U.S., and recent investment in computer memory chips has also transformed Taiwan into a DRAM powerhouse. The island makes nearly a fifth of the world's DRAM, and companies are fast moving into NAND flash memory. Some Taiwanese companies have already taken advantage of opportunities in India. MediaTek Inc., Taiwan's largest chip design firm and the biggest maker of chips for optical drives such as DVD players, has already set up a software development center in Noida, India. The center is key to one of MediaTek's top selling products, mobile phone chips. Not only does the Indian office create the user interface for MediaTek mobile phone products, but it is also a point from which the company can tap India's fast-growing mobile phone industry. MediaTek is already one of the top mobile phone chip makers in the China market. India boasts the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world, making it an important place for chip makers to set up shop. The nation added 8.06 million new subscribers in July, raising its total to 192.98 million, according to the according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). By comparison, the number of mobile phone subscribers in China rose to 508.56 million at the end of July, an addition of 6.9 million new users in the month, according to China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII). A number of chip companies from around the world have established research centers in India. Qualcomm Inc., the largest chip design house by revenue and a major U.S. mobile chip company, has also opened a software and chip development lab in India. The company uses it as a base for research and development as well as a place from which to promote its CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology, according to its Web site.
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When China's late leader Deng Xiaoping dreamt up the "one country two systems" formula for Hong Kong, he had a bigger prize in mind: Taiwan.
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The Tokyo-based electronics company is aiming for 'pure luxury' with its new TV line, which debuts in the U.S. early in 2008.
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The mobile phone industry has been  predicting for years that the future of television is wireless.
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LOS ANGELES  - Bill Gates predicts a  future for the entertainment industry in which traditional  broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive  vision, however, because new and better business models made  possible by technology are emerging.
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China's digital TV industry to boom    BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The newly-announced terrestrial digital TV standard will help make digital TV a 500 billion yuan (62.5 billion U.S. dollars) business in China in 2015 as opposed to the paltry 40 billion yuan chalked up in 2002.
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Mitsubishi's new technology should lead to handsets with high-resolution cameras by next year.
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China plans to let foreign companies take stakes in local television production companies, in a move giving international media companies better access to the world's biggest market.
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The HDTV technology company is moving a key part of its future in house.
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Sports programming is helping high-definition television become a mainstream phenomenon and a big moneymaker.
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A pay-to-view TV channel featuring British programmes such as Top of the Pops is to launch in Asia in December.