A seminar on web phone hardware/software integration was held on June 30 at the World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. It was hosted by Advantech, in conjunction with Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center and Acer Computers. The overall goal of this seminar was to create new business opportunities centered around web phones with manufacturers of telephones and switchers, and with other telecommunication industry representatives. It also outlined the benefits which could be derived from web phones, such as overall savings for users and capabilities for internet browsing, information retrieval, emailing, video conferencing, online shopping, etc. The first speaker from the Market Intelligence Center spoke about market trends and future business opportunities, while the second speaker from Acer addressed the group on the network-based communication system they offered for web phones. The speaker from Advantech explained Advantech's PC-based solutions for web phones. Advantech's hardware solution, in combination with Acer's IP solution, provides the ideal solution for the web phone business.

Review: China Windows^® CE Seminar

Between March 8 and May 13, Advantech held a series of joint seminars across China, in conjunction with Microsoft and ITE. In all, over 2000 attendees participated. These seminars presented the Advantech-Microsoft combination as an ideal solution for nearly all Windows^® CE embedded computing applications. In fact, Microsoft's alliance with Advantech is its absolute first with an embedded PC manufacturer. Besides the presentations by speakers from Microsoft, ITE and Advantech, application demonstrations were also shown by application engineers from Advantech Headquarters. Based on a flood of positive feedback, these seminars succeeded in presenting Advantech as a Windows^® CE platform solution provider. In addition, it demonstrated that there was a great deal of good, potential business in this field.

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