- ... that Acer (pictured) is ranked as one of the world's top five branded PC vendors and has a history dating to 1976?
- ... that Taipei was the first city in the world to roll out a city-wide Wi-Fi network with 4,000 hot spots serving a city population of 2.6 million?
- ... that the 2006 Hengchun earthquake (6.7 Richter scale) off the southwest coast of Taiwan damaged several submarine communications cables resulting in severe disruptions to telecommunication services including Internet access to many East and Southeast Asian countries?