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Sky ICT fine-tuning AoT app
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 29/04/2022
» SET-listed Sky ICT, an IT solutions provider, plans to further develop the "Sawasdee by AoT" app, which provides airport and flight information to travellers, with the aim to make it become a single gateway that connects tourists to all relevant services and agencies in Thailand.
Electronic snooping 'small price to pay' against terror: expert
AFP, Published on 23/03/2016
» HONG KONG - Terrorism will cast a continuing shadow over future generations and government electronic surveillance is a small price to pay to combat it, a leading historian said Wednesday, a day after the carnage in Brussels.
Celebrating 30 years of Windows
Life, James Hein, Published on 02/12/2015
» Back in 1985, on Nov 20, Windows 1.0 was released by Microsoft. This was not the first graphic, mouse click-based operating system at the time but it has certainly become the most common. Back then you needed two floppy disks, DOS 2.0, 256K of memory and a graphics card. Around 500,000 copies were sold. It took until about the mid 90s before Windows took off and the first popular version was Windows 3.11. It was recently found still running in France's Orly airport running a weather system. It is also still used in point of sales systems and a few other places.
App In The Air
Muse, Pattramon Sukprasert, Published on 05/09/2015
» There are always so many things to do before getting ready for a journey. You need to double check whether you have all your stuff and make your way to the airport in time.
Belgium plans collection of plane, train, ferry users' data
AFP, Published on 01/09/2015
» BRUSSELS - Belgium on Monday unveiled plans for a controversial system to collect data on all airline passengers, as well as international train and ferry travellers, in the wake of a foiled attack on a train running between Belgium and Paris.
When free Wi-Fi isn't really free
Life, James Hein, Published on 15/07/2015
» I've been doing some travelling recently and I've been taking some notice of the availability of Wi-Fi in international airports. Arriving in Singapore for example I was expecting free Wi-Fi at the airport but while it claimed to be it wasn't. To gain access you have to login, enter your mobile phone number and feed in the returning information from the SMS. Depending on your mobile roaming charges, and if you have roaming turned on at all, this can be somewhat costly for allegedly free Wi-Fi. Arriving at Jakarta airport the free Wi-Fi was both free and did not require any of these hoops to be navigated before accessing. Bottom line: Wi-Fi in Jakarta was much easier to use than in Singapore, which might sound counter-intuitive but based on my experience at least is true. In the age of voice over the internet the whole concept of huge phone and data charges is just plain wrong anyway. On the positive side for Singapore, buying an inexpensive voice and data plan for a couple of weeks was very reasonably priced. Also on the return journey I found that you can get a password in Singapore using a computer terminal, so access if you're not in a hurry.
Robot border guards among new airport tech at Paris Air Show
AFP, Published on 19/06/2015
» LE BOURGET (FRANCE) - New airport technologies unveiled at the Paris Air Show this week promise robots replacing immigration officers and much faster identification of criminals through their biometric data.
US hopes EU will pool airline passenger data
AFP, Published on 12/02/2015
» WASHINGTON - The United States wants the European Union to pool data on airline passengers to bolster security and prevent Islamist extremists from staging attacks on the West, US officials told lawmakers Wednesday.
A computer can now beat anyone at Texas hold'em poker
AFP, Published on 09/01/2015
» MIAMI - Poker face will only get you so far.
Images, video of beheaded journalist removed from Twitter
AFP, Published on 21/08/2014
» WASHINGTON - Twitter Wednesday removed from its service photos and video of the beheading of a US journalist that had been posted online by jihadists.