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Orwell would approve
Database, Published on 28/04/2010
» The troubles from the Iceland volcano gave one struggling industry a boost; Cisco Systems reported that the closing of all airports in Europe brought a big increase in the use of video conferences by people stuck on the ground; it was more of a claim than report — anecdotal, in the word of Cisco executive Fredrik Halvorsen — but it appeared that grounding airplanes was a big help for the videoconferencing sector; among those who didn’t get the word were the transport ministers of Europe, who whined that they could not hold an emergency meeting on stalled air traffic because they could not fly to some capital city for the meeting.
Using existing networks to run 3G is too much like common sense
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 03/03/2010
» 3G auctions for the rest of us before the end of this year? Should we rejoice at the progress that the four new Knights of Truffle and Cupcake, sorry, National Telecommunication Commissioners, have made, or is one to despair at the naivete that such talk brings? The problem is not so much about pushing ahead with 3G, but what to do with the existing 2G infrastructure.
'War on terror' exacts heavy toll on travellers
Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 25/01/2010
» A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council last week paints a shocking picture of how the "war on terror" has affected the global movement of people. It says that surveillance, watch-lists, racial profiling and biometrics, "once the exception have now become customary" and warns the situation could get worse unless safeguards are built in now.
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?
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?