• TECH

  What to expect as 3G gains momentum across Thailand

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010

  » It has been four months now and most of the ToT's five partners have gone ahead and launched their 3G offerings commercially. Coverage is still patchy but a major network upgrade is due next month. So what can users expect, and which is the best 3G MVNO to go for right now?

• TECH

  SAP sees opportunities in financial, public sectors

  Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 31/03/2010

  » According to SAP Thailand, 2010 is potentially a year for the IT industry with key opportunities for the company in the manufacturing, financial and public sectors.

• TECH

  Norton 360 suite version 4 launched

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010

  » Norton has launched its Norton 360 suite version 4 which builds on its successful Norton Internet Security package adding back-up and tools to improve PC performance.

• TECH

  Telenor boosts its presence in Thailand

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010

  » Telenor, parent company of Dtac, has stepped up its presence in Thailand and is launching a major corporate awareness campaign, partly to engage the government regulators at two levels as Thailand prepares for commercial 3G licensing.

• TECH

  Going places with Google

  Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 31/03/2010

  » Holding three degrees in computer science and a MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), young Thai Pachara Boriboon can work for any company, though she prefers Google because of its start-up feeling and culture.

• TECH

  I have seen the future, but you won't believe me

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 31/03/2010

  » I often think I might have written this column under the name Cassandra, the daughter of the King of Troy. She saw the future, but no-one believed

• TECH

  A hands-on approach to HR

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010

  » A Thai software company is leading the way in providing software and services to automate much of the work of HR managers, be it simple payroll processing or recruitment, or psychometric evaluation, in order to help develop the HR function in companies to make the role more professional and strategic.

• TECH

  Cut in IT set-up costs tempts SMEs

  Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 31/03/2010

  » Integrated collaboration between public and private partnerships is encouraging the cloud business model in Thailand and prompting Thai software developers to look towards the Indochina region.

• TECH

  Myopic view ignores increasing convergence

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010

  » How much should Channel 3 pay for its 10-year concession extension? Half a billion baht? One billion? How about something along the lines of a trillion and a half? Broadcasting and telecommunications are converging in more ways than one and perhaps Thailand should rethink whether it actually needs a spectrum-hogging UHF broadcaster in this day and age, and if the resources could be put to better use elsewhere.

• TECH

  Back to the future

  Database, Published on 31/03/2010

  » Don't panic, announced Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, but in the next 60 days the government will "create a level playing field" for telecom companies and probably try to extract truckloads of money and turn back the clock on concessions granted by the state duopoly; Mr Abhisit continued to maintain that telecoms firms (translation: one telecoms firm) made money from changes during the Thaksin Shinawatra years; he said he wants to "unwind the concessions," go back to the future and probably send a huge bill to Advanced Info Service of Shingapore; Mr Abhisit said he envisioned one big concession contract covering all telecoms firms and saving the bacon of your slowly dying ToT and CAT Telecom. Wichian Mektrakarn, CEO of No 1 yuppiephone firm Advanced Info Service of Shingapore, explained that if Mr Abhisit succeeds in unravelling all concessions contracts and reverting to the early 1990s when they started to come into being, "the whole system will collapse." Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij seemed to contradict the prime minister; he told Hong Kong businessmen it is "unlikely" the government will try to extract retroactive concessions payments.

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