Every year, the great and the good of Taiwan and further afield evaluate and judge a whole host of technologically innovative products. After much time and deliberation they decide which of this year’s crop are to be awarded this highest of Computex accolades, the Best Choice of Computex 2009 awards.

This year there were 11 categories of products and over 400 entries from 170 companies. Mio are proud to announce that this year, their soon to be launched Explora K75 GPS phone took the top prize in the Car Electronics category.

The Windows Mobile® 6.1 K75 combines the latest in GPS technologies and navigation software, to provide turn-by-turn navigation and a database full of points-of-interest.  The K75 also comes with the latest in wireless technologies including WIFI, GSM Quad band, 3.5G data connection and Bluetooth®.  Other features include a 3.5” touch screen, Office Mobile, 3.0 megapixel camera and multimedia player to provide users with everything they need to be truly productive and mobile. The slim form factor plus innovative hardware and software combine to make the K75 a truly unique GPS phone.

The award winning Explora K75 GPS phone and highly innovative Mio Moov V series PNDs with integrated digital TV receiver can all be experienced on the Mio Booth (M112, Nangang Exhibition Hall) at this year’s Computex show in Taipei from June 2nd to 6th and at Mio Computex website: www.mio.com/promotions from June 1st to 17th.

Read More: Please refer to Mio TW Official Website.

Bloggers and hackers meet in the most unusual of places, from fields to coffee to shops to conference centers. Wherever there’s enough space and liberal laws, groups of all sorts will get together to meet their colleagues.

In the early days of the Internet and networking, a group of Linux users would gather in a field somewhere in the Netherlands, cobble together a crude wired network and somehow get chatting to each other and the outside world from their tents. Hack-Tic took place between 1989 and 1994 and was a gathering of the Digerati, incredibly smart people who thought it was cool to get wasted and get wired, whilst lying on the grass.

Fifteen years on, and the challenges of getting online whilst being  in the middle of nowhere have  practically disappeared, but the writers and hackers are still there. Today’s writers are usually sitting in coffee shops, library’s, bookshops or at home, trawling through the overwhelming glut of information that is available to them, trying to find a germ of an idea that will become the swine flu of an article and spread all over the world.

Writing is a lonely business and every now and then they must get together with their own kind, to express ideas, chew the fat and slurp down a frothy cappuccino. Blog Meets happen all over the world and are an ideal place for meeting new friends and getting new information.

With this in mind Mio decided to hold its own gathering of bloggers to promote the new Mio Moov S series and get the bloggers out and drinking coffee.  Held at The Path Café in downtown Taipei, the gathering of likeminded individuals lasted for a couple of hours and proved to be a great success amongst the cities bloggers, where they sat with their PDA’s staying very sober, whilst tapping away and giving the world some informative gems.

The IT world has come a long way in 20 years but hackers and bloggers alike remain the same bunch of people trying to change the world just one bit at a time.

  The new Spirit demonstration video is now available on YouTube, watch it and find out why the new Spirit navigation software is this year’s must have when you’re buying a new GPS.