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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."
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.
Sleeping giant
Database, Published on 27/01/2010
» Google announced that it has had it up to here with four solid years of Chinese censorship, and there is a very good chance it will simply pull out of the country that blackens the name of free speech; the Google announcement also lambasted China for the touchy subject of hacking email and document accounts - Google said the Chinese do it all the time, do it to Chinese and foreigners, and do it to individuals and companies including, recently, Adobe Systems; the announcement touched off a drama that will run weeks, likely more; former anti-Google advocates like Reporters Without Borders praised the search engine giant, but investors bailed on Google and started buying Baidu, the search company that helps and empowers the Chinese hacking and snooping; after all is done, Google may indeed finally begin living up to its promise to do no evil.
Travel fair a test of confidence
Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 20/01/2010
» The travel industry is pinning its hopes on healthy customer spending at the Thai International Travel Fair 2010, which it says will reflect demand and confidence in Thai tourism in 2010.
Computer villains beware - digital forensics gather pace
Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 20/01/2010
» In the physical world, the police need help from forensic teams to collect evidence to solve crimes and catch culprits. Similarly, in the digital world, digital forensics are a crucial part of the fight against cyber criminals and hackers. The evidence these professionals can gather against suspects can be presented in court.
A small price to pay
Database, Published on 20/01/2010
» Your TOT board put huge red Xs across all the recent auctions and three billion baht worth of contracts to build a fibre-optic network for broadband Internet, and vowed to call new contracts; the decision followed remarks by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva over the high prices of some of the bids, and your TOT will be certain to write new terms of reference for new auctions; the rather complicated auction was run in portions, for various parts of the country, but luckily for TOT turned out to total 3.03 billion baht, a full 0.01 billion below the budget; now they will have to do it all again, and despite what Mr Abhisit says, prices do go up, don't they?
TAT sees very happy Chinese New Year
Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 18/01/2010
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand expects at least 100,000 Chinese tourists to spend the coming Chinese New Year in Thailand, up from 60,000 last year, with the easing of H1N1 flu fears and a perception in China of a calmer political situation in Thailand.
Talk is cheap
Database, Published on 13/01/2010
» Technology monitor Fast Market Research of America reported that domestic Thai consumers and companies bought $2.7 billion worth of computers in 2009 - almost 89 billion baht in real money; the research firm said this was "slight growth" from 2008; the report said personal computers still had only about 14 percent market penetration, leaving lots of room for future growth; phone sales will continue to be dominated by lower-priced handsets, the report confirmed (see later item in this summary); the last full report showed overall electronics sales in Thailand around $4.9 billion in 2008 - 163 billion baht in today's currency.
Cracking good time
Database, Published on 13/01/2010
» German tech nerd Karsten Nohl showed off at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin how he cracked the encryption that you were trusting to keep your phone calls un-tappable throughout Thailand; the researcher proved it would be pretty simple to crack any GSM encryption; he said the 20-year-old encryption algorithm used by most GSM companies is simply too weak, and can be cracked by anyone who really cares; he released all the data, cracking tables and instructions, but did not give away an actual cracking program, because that might be illegal.
DTac raises ambitions but lessens footprints
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 06/01/2010
» By using solar power, each DTac base station spares the environment 20 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year, as well as being silent.