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Dysfunctional campaign
Database, Published on 03/02/2010
» Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced that he expects third generation phone service before New Year's Eve; he then announced why there probably won't be any; in a speech to mark the fifth anniversary of the Magnificent Seven National Telecommunications Commission, Mr Abhisit set out the conflicting criteria he expects to see in Asia's last, most dysfunctional 3G campaign: service before the end of the year after fair bandwidth auctions that favour small Thai telecom operators; on one hand, "3G services can no longer be postponed," he insisted, but on the other, the NTC must bias bidding to favour a more competitive structure; the English translation of this speech: DTac of Norway and AIS of Shingapore have way too much market power now and 3G contracts must show that.
The China syndrome
Database, Published on 03/02/2010
» US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to put down China for big-hack attacks on Google and ruthless censorship, without once mentioning the word "China"; countries restrict the free flow of information, she sang to the choir at the Newseum in Washington, and "co-opted the Internet" to repress religion; a certain country should conduct a thorough investigation of the cyber intrusions against Google, and that certain country should make a public report; nut quote: "New technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does."
Size Matters
B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 31/01/2010
» Earlier this month, Amazon.com announced the official release of an international version of its popular Kindle electronic reader - the Kindle DX, now available in over 100 countries, including Thailand.
Jigsaw offers B2B directory
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 27/01/2010
» Jigsaw is offering a business directory of US companies through what they call Data as a Service using crowd sourcing techniques to keep the data up-to date. In the words of CEO Jim Fowler, it has done to business to business databases what Wikipedia has done to Britannica.
Promises, promises
Database, Published on 27/01/2010
» She earned the title of Thailand's Best Information and Communications Technology Minister of 2009, and just two weeks into the new year, she showed she has no intention of slowing down; Thailand, declared Ranongruk Suwanchwee will definitely have third generation phone service in 2011, or if not, then in a year shortly thereafter; as Korea, Japan and other countries worked on startup up 4G service, Mrs Ranongruk insisted that 3G service for Thais was a top priority, and she fully intends to spend 20 billion baht this year alone.
Useful tools for computer repair
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 27/01/2010
» One year and nine days after my wonderful Sugar Daddy let me pick a beautiful new computer to use at home, the hard drive went even further south than Betong.
Focus on loyal, paying customers, not pirates
Database, James Hein, Published on 27/01/2010
» There is a fine line between product protection, security and customer dissatisfaction. Organisations that develop software employ all manner of protection mechanisms to stop people using their products without paying for them first. Almost without exception the pirates and crackers find a way to bypass these protection mechanisms and the same people who didn't pay for software get the latest versions for free or at a greatly reduced price.
Exporting PDFs
Database, Published on 27/01/2010
» I followed your advice on migrating to OpenOffice, it is free and it is now the only word processing program available at commercial Internet shops.
Korean Dream
B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 24/01/2010
» While HP holds on to its major share of the notebook market, smaller players are left to fight for the competitive minor placings.
Compatibility problems
Database, Published on 20/01/2010
» I took my compact 2.5 HD external storage device on vacation to Canada recently hoping to show my daughters some photos of amazing Thailand. My daughters both have relatively mew Macs and although the machines recognised an external drive was connected they refused to open the device to show the photos.