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  • TECH

    Last one in, again

    Database, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Never in Thai history has a story that didn't happen so dominate the news and clearly emerge as the Technology Story of the Year; just before the New Year, your TOT flipped a switch that started providing bandwidth of the third-generation kind in a couple of obscure corners of Bangkok, but in truth, 2009 was the year that Laos and Cambodia totally humiliated the telecoms state enterprises by leaving Thailand a far, distant last among Asian countries providing 3G service to yuppiephone subscribers.

  • TECH

    Clearing the road for traffic updates

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 20/01/2010

    » Advances in technology have led to a revolution in traffic management, with motorists taking it upon themselves to update traffic information via interactive websites such as Twitter.

  • TECH

    Data-interception technology sparks privacy vs safety arguments

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 27/01/2010

    » Experts have raised concerns over whether using Sniffer software to resolve suspicious internet activity violates the Computer-related Crime Act B.E. 2550.

  • LIFE

    Service centres set up to reassure foreign visitors

    Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 10/03/2010

    » The government is setting up special service centres to help tourists prior to and after the planned anti-government rallies in Bangkok this weekend.

  • LIFE

    TAT opens centre to assist tourists

    Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 11/03/2010

    » The Tourism Authority of Thailand will upgrade its crisis management centre to a national tourist assistance centre to help visitors during this weekend's anti-government protests in Bangkok.

  • TECH

    Thailand's digital democracy in action

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 17/03/2010

    » As the red shirt movement heats up politics in Thailand, several non-politicians have been seeking ways to express their opinions as well as report the red shirt movement through popular social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, placing Thailand on the map of Digital Democracy along with many other countries.

  • TECH

    Flash in the pan

    Database, Published on 12/05/2010

    » The popular website Gizmodo got a prototype of the newest, still secret Apple iPhone when an employee left it in a bar, and a man found it and sold it to the website; Gizmodo bought it, photographed and wrote about it (it is quite uninteresting, at this stage); Steve "President for Life" Jobs responded in character by filing felony theft charges against the website, something he would be terrified out of his only wit to do against a larger media company; the police came and ransacked the office and home of the editor, seizing his computers and otherwise trying to intimidate the firm on behalf of Big Brother Jobs, to enforce the law that makes it illegal to receive stolen goods.

  • 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.

  • TECH

    DLT offers RFID technology

    Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/07/2010

    » The Department of Land Transport (DLT) has applied Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology offered as an option of the new system of annual tax payment badge and it's expected that the number of lost vehicle will decline.

  • TECH

    The Thai way of doing things

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/09/2010

    » Whether away of managing certain industries through threats of exclusion from bidding instead of proper rules, and seeing friends have to struggle juggling work with visa runs that benefit no one, the Thai way of doing things has often got me in bit of a mental pickle.

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