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Google earlier this week announced that it is building a data center in Taiwan, to be located on a 15-hectare site on the west coast of Taiwan in Changhua Country. This will be the search giant’s third data center in the region after Hong Kong and Singapore, and joins six such facilities in the United States and two in Europe. The move by Google to establish new data centers in Asia reflects the growing number of Internet users in this region, which recently tipped past half a billion in China alone. Google is the number two search engine in the country, behind Chinese search engine Baidu.

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Takeaway: Interested in attending a trade show or conference in your area of IT? Here’s a list of some of the top ones and the information you’ll need. Despite the grumpy headlines coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show this year, it’s easy to get excited about the prospect of hitting Vegas and checking out all the hip new gadgets, along with the occasional useful new piece of business technology. For those of us who do tech for a living, there are of course a world of more focused and vertical-specific trade shows and conferences that are a little easier to rationalize in the expense budget. If you are considering attending a conference or two in 2012, here are some candidates where you can share ideas with peers and get courted by tech vendors. Oh yeah, there probably will be some neat chachkes, too. (Read Full Article)