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To: CrashDavis who wrote (1297)	5/21/2014 11:20:16 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26687

I agree with all points Crash. People in the poor countries have alternatives to indoor plumbing... go outside... but there is only one way for a wife to keep tabs on her husband wherever he is and that takes a phone that has text messaging! -> I have dinner surrounded by a hike downtown with my good buddy about once a month. We get 4 miles of exercise time to talk in addition to the time it takes to order and eat. He's started and sold several companies and was born in India while his wife was born in the US. Anyway, when he first got a cell phone years ago, I had to ask him to turn it off when we had our time to talk business ideas and life as his wife kept calling to check on him or give him tasks to do on the way home. It was very disruptive, especially in the middle of eating. Anyway, we only use them for emergencies now when we meet. I hear there are now some games groups play where you all have to place your smart phone on vibrate in the center of the table face down and whoever picks up the pile to see if the message from vibrating is for them, has to pay the bill. Funny, but my friend now likes the time away from the phone so much he keeps threatening to get rid of it completely! ->> It probably too 15 yrs to go from cell phones affordable to the rich to text phones for all here at a reasonable price and smart phones for the wealthy. I wonder if it will be quicker in the emerging markets. I know Intel released one of their first smart phones with their chips in India... putting their efforts where they can really compete.

To: CrashDavis who wrote (1297)

5/22/2014 10:14:25 AM

From: Kirk ©

Respond to of 26687

Taiwan April unemployment rate hits 71-month low, says DGBAS

Taiwan had 449,000 jobless citizens in April 2014, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.91%, which was the lowest monthly level since June 2008. The rate dropped 0.12ppt on month and 0.16ppt on year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

Taiwan's population aged 15 and over stood at 19.676 million in April, consisting of 11.489 million for labor force with a labor participation rate of 58.39%, DGBAS indicated.

In April, Taiwan's unemployment rate was lower than that in France (10.4%), Canada (6.9%), the UK (6.8%), the US (6.3%), and Germany (5.1%) but higher than Japan (3.6%), South Korea (3.5%), Hong Kong (3.1%) and Singapore (2.1%), DGBAS said.

DGBAS: Taiwan unemployment rates by age group, Apr 2014
Age group	Labor participation rate	Unemployment rate
15-24	28.63%	12.27%
25-44	86.78%	4.13%
45-64	61.50%	2.04%

Source: DGBAS, compiled by Digitimes, May 2014