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  • TECH

    A small price to pay

    Database, Published on 20/01/2010

    » Your TOT board put huge red Xs across all the recent auctions and three billion baht worth of contracts to build a fibre-optic network for broadband Internet, and vowed to call new contracts; the decision followed remarks by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva over the high prices of some of the bids, and your TOT will be certain to write new terms of reference for new auctions; the rather complicated auction was run in portions, for various parts of the country, but luckily for TOT turned out to total 3.03 billion baht, a full 0.01 billion below the budget; now they will have to do it all again, and despite what Mr Abhisit says, prices do go up, don't they?

  • TECH

    Data law draft raises fears over user privacy

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 24/02/2010

    » Law experts have raised criticisms of Thailand's Data Protection Law draft, saying that there are several issues requiring amendment, especially concerns over abuse of power.

  • TECH

    The extermination of all things impure from Apple

    Database, James Hein, Published on 24/02/2010

    » Is Oracle a trusted form of Open source software? With the recent resignation of Ken Jacobs, the man tipped to look after MySQL, people are starting to wonder. Jacobs was known as the friendly face of Open source in Oracle. When Oracle did not assign MySQL to Jacobs, he quit. Jacobs did say that he believed Oracle would look after MySQL and "make it better".

  • TECH

    Analytics tackle fraud, security issues

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 03/03/2010

    » SAS is pushing "text mining" technology and social network analysis to help the government tackle fraud, terrorism and national security threats, while leveraging private clouds to cut licensing costs in the enterprise market.

  • LEARNING

    Behaviour-influencing techniques

    Learningpost, Published on 20/04/2010

    » Prevention trumps cure. It avoids a waste of energy, time and resources. Prevention allows teachers to nurture positive working relationships with students. Students respect teachers who take the necessary steps to prevent misbehaviour rather than wait to react to it when it does surface.

  • LIFE

    Tourism revival will start with Asia

    Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 22/05/2010

    » The government is preparing a tourism revival promotion campaign, focusing first on China, Hong Kong, Japan and Asean as it tries to restore confidence after a week of mayhem in Bangkok.

  • TECH

    Tracking digital footprints

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 21/07/2010

    » 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." That famous caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner from 1993 still holds true in 2010. It's getting harder and harder to identify real people online on the ubiquitous social networking site, Facebook.

  • NEWS & PR

    Bars of wisdom

    Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 27/07/2010

    » Recently, the "World Cup 2010 Behind Bars" football competition among prison inmates was held at Klong Prem Central Pri-son. To arrive at the playing field, it is necessary to pass through a series of four imposing security gates. The event, modelled on the Fifa (Fe'de'ration Internationale de Football Association) World Cup, is also held once every four years.

  • TECH

    Perish the thought

    Database, Published on 28/07/2010

    » The alleged "plan" by Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij to change the current yuppiephone concession contracts - and incidentally mortally wound Shin Corp and its No 1 network Advanced Info Service although that's not the purpose, perish the thought - has thrown business, government, regulators and even the Senate into a tizzy; the kindest people said Mr Korn had good intentions, lousy planning; others were not so charitable; they noted that his plan to issue AIS, Dtac of Norway and True Move of Thailand with 15-year licences was highly questionable in legal terms, and almost impossible to regulate; Anant Vorathitipong, vice-chairman of the Senate subcommittee on communications technology, warned that the minister could land the government in lawsuits up to taxpayers' necks.

  • TECH

    Socialising in a networked world

    Outlook, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 13/09/2010

    » Once the team meeting was over, frustrated Surakiat (not his real name) couldn't wait to get back to his cubicle. On the way out, he started typing furiously on his BlackBerry to share what was on his mind. Seconds later, several hundred of his friends could learn not only what was on his mind, but also what was going on in his office and his perception of his bosses and company.

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