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Huawei: 5G to be defined this year
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/02/2019
» This year will be a bellwether for 5G in Southeast Asia, as spectrum price, site acquisition, and 5G system improvements will all determine how quickly the technology will be accepted, says James Wu, Huawei Southeast Asia president.
Survey: IT and digital market projected to increase 13.7%
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 29/01/2019
» The information technology (IT) and digital market in Thailand this year is forecast to be worth 527 billion baht, 13.7% larger than the previous year, according to a study by IMC Institute commissioned by the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa).
Promoting digital from the bottom up
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/01/2019
» Chai Wutiwiwatchai is the first director of the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Nectec) to be promoted not from a deputy director position, but from the top job at a research unit.
NIA launches startup pad district in True Digital Park
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 10/10/2018
» The National Innovation Agency (NIA), in collaboration with True Digital Park, have launched Bangkok Cyber Tech District, which aims to house more than 20,000 startups.
Study: Thai firms most digitally affected in region
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 29/08/2018
» Thailand is the most digitally disrupted market in the region, with 95% of businesses and IT leaders in the country saying the market has been impacted, compared with an 80% average across the region, according to a CA Technologies study.
Depa eyes Coding Thailand sea change
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 07/06/2018
» The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa), part of the Digital Economy and Society (DE) Ministry, has introduced the "Coding Thailand" project in collaboration with the private sector to encourage Thai youths to develop computational thinking skills.
Facebook hails local SMEs for social commerce savvy
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 16/05/2018
» Thai small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a source of global innovation and inspiration as they use Facebook to introduce products to the local market.
Brave new world
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 02/05/2018
» While virtual reality has been known to gamers for more than a decade, efforts have been made to apply the technology to a wider variety of sectors. This also includes a group of Thai inventors who created VR applications illustrating advantages that go beyond gaming.
On the cutting edge
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/04/2018
» The challenge thrown at contestants at the Annual Student Meeting on Automotive Embedded Systems (AMAS) was to design software that could control a model car to run past a set of obstacles.
Upskilling a generation
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/02/2018
» Although computer science is thought of as a difficult, complicated subject, it's actually a basic aspect of everyday life. Now a programme has been initiated to give underprivileged and disabled youth a chance to access computer science education.