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QAD offers laser focus
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» Enterprise software maker QAD offers ERP (enterprise resource planning) with a difference. Rather than being able to everything like the competition, it focuses only on a few industries and does so with a laser focus.
Ericsson sets out smart pipe plan
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» Ericsson has set out a plan to help mobile operators return to profitability and evolve into a smart pipe, while the longer term focus is now on LTE and 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
The pitfalls that need to be addressed
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» If all sectors of society of the future are to be online, Thailand will need leadership who can set the tone and put in motion the strong regulation needed so that back haul and spectrum re-allocation, the gold-rush of the 21st century can be done in an efficient and fair way. Professor Rohan Samarajiva, CEO of think-tank LIRNEAsia, was in Bangkok and set out the questions and pitfalls that Thailand needs to address going forward.
Survey reveals huge redundancy
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/12/2010
» Thailand is already swamped with fibre-optic cables connecting every district and does not need to spend on yet another next generation network (NGN) project. Instead, work should focus on using the idle existing networks and building out the last mile to the villages and homes, according to academics from Thammasat University's Faculty of Economics.
MS re-claims lead with HD7 phone
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» Microsoft is back to re-claim its throne at the top of the smart phone pecking order with the launch of the Windows Phone 7 HD7 phone that was launched, and immediately sold out, in conjunction with HTC and Dtac.
Future shock: We got it wrong
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» I must have spend much of my childhood wondering about the future. As a child of the '70s, I grew up seeing a bleak, post-apocalyptic vision. Whether it was in the aftermath of a war with the USSR or just a meteor shower leaving humanity blind and eaten by man-eating plants (as in Day of the Triffids) or brainwashed and put into bubble-skinned suits (The Prisoner), the future was scary, yet intriguing, and something to be held in awe.
Where will the new world order unfold?
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010
» When Amazon took down the WikiLeaks site from its EC2 cloud, it opened a whole new can of worms as to what can be put in the cloud and what cannot. But for some, there will be a collective sigh of "I told you so", and the loser in this, again, might well be the United States, while the winner... well, that would be whoever moves quickly enough to take advantage of the upcoming exodus.
Thai banks face strong competition in Asean
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010
» Thai banks will need to get their act together to cope with increased competition when deregulation happens in 2015 with the advent of the Asean Economic Community.
Let the humanoid race begin
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/12/2010
» Applicants are now being accepted for the national round of the Robocup humanoid soccer championship, with 1.7 million baht of backing from Seagate. The winner will represent Thailand in the world Robocup Soccer 2011 championship in Turkey.
Why kickbacks are holding us all back
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/12/2010
» Think of Thailand and while beaches and massages might come to mind, what of IT? It is a niche, yet there is so much going on under the radar in this country.