Those who follow my Twitter/Google Plus saw that I attended the Dickens Fair this past weekend (thanks to my lovely and talented friend Felicia for telling me about it and getting my girlfriend and I comped tickets!) What is the Dickens Fair, you ask? Apparently, it’s a Bay Area tradition dating to the 1970s where [...]
I’m always a fan of stories/articles highlighting the importance of Taiwan in the technology industry, so I was especially pleased that one of my favorite publications recently put out an article highlighting the very key Computex industry conference, the role of the Taiwanese government’s ITRI R&D organization in cultivating Taiwan’s technology sector, and the rise [...]
The Economist has an interesting article on the Kremlin’s latest push to modernize Russia’s economy and kick-start a wave of innovation which would supposedly lead to a “Russia with nuclear-powered spaceships and supercomputers.” Far-fetched as this premise sounded, the article raised many thought-provoking questions on whether or not (and how) Russia could hope to build [...]
From my good buddy Serena’s tumblr: Like many other products/services in the technology value chain, my tag would read the same…
A few weeks back, I wrote a quick overview of Clayton Christensen’s explanation for how new technologies/products can “disrupt” existing products and technologies. In a nutshell, Christensen explains that new “disruptive innovations” succeed not because they win in a head-to-head comparison with existing products (i.e. laptops versus desktops), but because they have three things: Good [...]
It’s been a while since I visited the topic of Taiwan’s pivotal role in the global technology supply chain. So, it’s long overdue for some not-so-shameless plugging of news involving my favorite island country’s technology industry and the impact they’ve had on the technology space: HTC shipped the first mobile phone to run Google’s Android [...]
I’m a big fan of Firefox (and much of open source). And I’m all for Taiwan’s prominent position in the tech industry. So, of course, I had to post about the adorable mascot of the Taiwanese Firefox/Mozilla community, Foxmosa (HT: Mozilla Links): From Mozilla Links: The design of Foxmosa was done by Taiwanese illustrator, Tatit, [...]
As many of this blog’s readers know, I was born in Taiwan but raised in the United States. I am a bit ashamed to admit this, but it wasn’t until college that I began to get a real sense of what being Taiwanese meant – the culture, the history, the customs. Sadly, it wasn’t until [...]
It is no surprise that many Asian countries are wary of Japan. After all Japan, until 1945, exerted strong military control over much of Eastern Asia. In light of this, what is very surprising is how Taiwan does not share in this negative opinion despite being a colony of Japan for 50 years. Instead, as [...]
I’ve been on my current case for about 3 months. As I’ve mentioned before, it is a high level strategy case for a technology client. As a result, I’ve been able to do a great deal of fairly interesting work researching various technology markets and trends, ranging from the typical (Internet search) to the more [...]