Dialogue Technology
Encyclopedia
Dialogue Technology is a technology company, founded in 1990 and headquartered in Taipei
, Taiwan
. The company's flagship product is the Flybook—an ultraportable convertible tablet
computer with integrated 3G
.
Founded in 1990 by Mr. Jack Lee
, Dialogue Tech. Corporation initially focused on the research and development of touch screen and wireless applications to be integrated in innovative notebooks. The Dialogue group globally now has 200 staff, and a turnover of 150M US$.
The Flybooks were a true Mobile Internet Device (MID) with full WiFi and Cellular onboard capability while maintaining the full power of a laptop computer in a highly transportable format.
The first Flybook model (A33i) was powered by a Transmeta Crusoe
processor. Newer models that arrived in May 2006 were powered by Intel's Pentium M ULV processor and the latest models use the Core 2 Duo ULV CPU and Centrino platform.
In 2004, the first Flybook was launched on the European market with the support of Holbe Italy later re-named to Holbe Dialogue Europe, therefore gained a stable position in the High-end market dedicated to professionals, people on the move. With the entrepreneurial ability of Gino and Alan d'Noforio - Flybook Italy was born. Over the next 5 years this Italian venture had great success by selling Flybooks to Telecom Italia.
The first failure occurred for Flybook when the Holbe Dialogue distributor had disagreements with Taiwan. For reasons still unknown, that relationship ended. What was left was for Dialogue to start a new relationship and Lupo Rossi was approached to reopen Dialogue Technology Europe. A large shipment of failed systems and Taiwan's lack of response was the first sign of financial trouble in Taipei. Soon thereafter, Italy lost the largest customer to the Flybook family, Telecom Italia, probably due to their inability to ship products as the products received were all dead on arrival. So the collapse began. Additionally, Dialogue also built a large and expensive support base that resulted in financial failure when Telcom Italia stopped purchasing Flybooks. What followed was a reorganization, lost ability to produce new inventory, non payment of millions of dollars US, and eventual dissolution.
The result of the collapse of this Italian distributor of Flybooks was that headquarters Dialogue Technology in Taiwan had to stop developing and producing their notebooks. Further Dialogue Technology Corporation USA, which was launched in 2007, lost financial support from Taiwan. When Taiwan opened their North and South American effort, they committed to providing support to this new company, which was entirely owned by Mr. Jack Lee, founder and CEO of Dialogue Technology.
In the early part of 2009, Mr. Jack Lee sent his brother Michael Lee to the US to try to build the business as the US market was Dialogue's last hope of survival. Poor management, lack of US business savvy, and Mr. Michael Lee's lack of citizenship, or right to work in the US created a very sketchy business from that point forward. The company moved to the Silicon Valley area in mid year 2009 and Taiwan took complete control over the US company's entire range of operations. Under the control of Michael Lee, the US branch failed. Additional interest to note, when the Italian branch office failed, it was also under the control of Mr. Michael Lee.
In the 3 years since the collapse of the Italian business and the financial impact it had on Dialogue business in Taiwan and the United States. Dialogue owes many hundreds of thousands of dollars to employees, distributors, resellers, freight companies, landlords and the like and left the US market completely in early 2010 and does not respond to e-mails for payment.
There has been a site set up to collect a list of creditors left behind:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AngxSKB0xMoedHcwcjByRU1tdVhNT1dEa2dGelExckE&hl=en&authkey=CJ2TjtQK
Their US operation is in the process of filing for bankruptcy protection. The link is below:
http://www.canb.uscourts.gov/calendars/341/sj/wu/341-calendar-carol-wu-101210-san-jose
Current FlyBook product series include V5 (8.9") and VM(12.1").
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. The company's flagship product is the Flybook—an ultraportable convertible tablet
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...
computer with integrated 3G
3G
3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
.
Founded in 1990 by Mr. Jack Lee
Jack Lee
Jack Lee is an American songwriter and musician best known for composing the song, "Hanging on the Telephone."-Biography:...
, Dialogue Tech. Corporation initially focused on the research and development of touch screen and wireless applications to be integrated in innovative notebooks. The Dialogue group globally now has 200 staff, and a turnover of 150M US$.
The Flybooks were a true Mobile Internet Device (MID) with full WiFi and Cellular onboard capability while maintaining the full power of a laptop computer in a highly transportable format.
The first Flybook model (A33i) was powered by a Transmeta Crusoe
Transmeta Crusoe
The Crusoe is a family of x86-compatible microprocessors developed by Transmeta. Crusoe was notable for its method of achieving x86 compatibility. Instead of the instruction set architecture being implemented in hardware, or translated by specialized hardware, the Crusoe runs a software abstraction...
processor. Newer models that arrived in May 2006 were powered by Intel's Pentium M ULV processor and the latest models use the Core 2 Duo ULV CPU and Centrino platform.
In 2004, the first Flybook was launched on the European market with the support of Holbe Italy later re-named to Holbe Dialogue Europe, therefore gained a stable position in the High-end market dedicated to professionals, people on the move. With the entrepreneurial ability of Gino and Alan d'Noforio - Flybook Italy was born. Over the next 5 years this Italian venture had great success by selling Flybooks to Telecom Italia.
The first failure occurred for Flybook when the Holbe Dialogue distributor had disagreements with Taiwan. For reasons still unknown, that relationship ended. What was left was for Dialogue to start a new relationship and Lupo Rossi was approached to reopen Dialogue Technology Europe. A large shipment of failed systems and Taiwan's lack of response was the first sign of financial trouble in Taipei. Soon thereafter, Italy lost the largest customer to the Flybook family, Telecom Italia, probably due to their inability to ship products as the products received were all dead on arrival. So the collapse began. Additionally, Dialogue also built a large and expensive support base that resulted in financial failure when Telcom Italia stopped purchasing Flybooks. What followed was a reorganization, lost ability to produce new inventory, non payment of millions of dollars US, and eventual dissolution.
The result of the collapse of this Italian distributor of Flybooks was that headquarters Dialogue Technology in Taiwan had to stop developing and producing their notebooks. Further Dialogue Technology Corporation USA, which was launched in 2007, lost financial support from Taiwan. When Taiwan opened their North and South American effort, they committed to providing support to this new company, which was entirely owned by Mr. Jack Lee, founder and CEO of Dialogue Technology.
In the early part of 2009, Mr. Jack Lee sent his brother Michael Lee to the US to try to build the business as the US market was Dialogue's last hope of survival. Poor management, lack of US business savvy, and Mr. Michael Lee's lack of citizenship, or right to work in the US created a very sketchy business from that point forward. The company moved to the Silicon Valley area in mid year 2009 and Taiwan took complete control over the US company's entire range of operations. Under the control of Michael Lee, the US branch failed. Additional interest to note, when the Italian branch office failed, it was also under the control of Mr. Michael Lee.
In the 3 years since the collapse of the Italian business and the financial impact it had on Dialogue business in Taiwan and the United States. Dialogue owes many hundreds of thousands of dollars to employees, distributors, resellers, freight companies, landlords and the like and left the US market completely in early 2010 and does not respond to e-mails for payment.
There has been a site set up to collect a list of creditors left behind:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AngxSKB0xMoedHcwcjByRU1tdVhNT1dEa2dGelExckE&hl=en&authkey=CJ2TjtQK
Their US operation is in the process of filing for bankruptcy protection. The link is below:
http://www.canb.uscourts.gov/calendars/341/sj/wu/341-calendar-carol-wu-101210-san-jose
Current FlyBook product series include V5 (8.9") and VM(12.1").
External links
- Dialogue official website
- Flybook official website
- Flybook VM Business in the Intel experience of the Extreme “Zero G” fly
- Flybook V5i at Engaget
- Review of the Flybook V5 at iCube
- Flyblog by Brenda