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A new idea to speed up the Windows start-up
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 02/06/2010
» Ask the geeks in the IT Department how to make your computer boot faster, and they'll talk until your eyes glaze over about MS-Config and ticking boxes, and then scare your ears off with tales about how the slowness is probably because you have a virus anyhow.
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.
More than just a list
Muse, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 10/04/2010
» Almost every movie lover knows the Oscar-winning film Schindler's List, which simplifies the true story of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist and member of the Nazi party who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews by hiring them in his factories during World War II. Lists changed throughout the wartime. Yet, the official one is dated April 18, 1945, three weeks before the German army surrendered. Three copies are being kept in museums in Jerusalem, Washington D.C., and in Orange Country, New York. The only copy in private hands is now for sale for $2.2 million (71.4 million baht).
Today's 10 most common security threats on the Net
Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 24/03/2010
» The growth of the Internet as a ubiquitous part of life has made social networks and mobile devices more vulnerable to attack, with the users themselves often the weakest link.
Stating the obvious: The GT200 is a fraud
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/02/2010
» It's the emperor's new clothes all over again. The GT200 is a fraud, but why are people so scared to say it?
Getting creative
Database, Published on 10/02/2010
» No 1 yuppiephone network Advanced Info Service of Shingapore issued an "Oh yeah?" challenge to you No 1 state-owned G3 provider, TOT, to wit: If you don't let AIS use your 3G services, we won't let any of the TOT subscribers use AIS networks for calling outside the 3G area - meaning about 99.8 percent of Thailand; to rehash the story up to now: AIS has no 3G service but lusts after it, while TOT has installed some 3G carriers for a few thousand users in a couple of corners of Bangkok, and may have some service in Pattaya within a few months, or so.
Google unveils new smartphone
AFP, Published on 06/01/2010
» Google has unveiled its new Nexus One smartphone in a direct challenge to heavyweight Apple's iPhone handsets.
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.
Apathy reigns as Thailand continues to fail to embrace its potential
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 06/01/2010
» After so many years of writing, I have ended up with a 'why bother' attitude when it comes to the more controversial news which should matter. Anyone remember the not-very-smart ID cards that cost 888 million baht and which, to this day, are not fully utilised?