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AI is the new marketing buzzword
Life, James Hein, Published on 08/11/2023
» Some readers will remember back a decade or three when the big term was "turbo". Everything was turbo something. Turbo speed, turbo clearing, turbo graphics and so on. Today, the equivalent term is AI. I saw an advertisement recently for glasses described as AI technology that adapts to your sight. It was a regular lens with some design elements, perhaps from an AI, perhaps not, with claims of predictive focus. Rubbish. There was no inherent active or dynamic AI technology in the lenses to back up this claim and I don't think such a technology at that level is even available at any price in the current time. The same goes for many other claims preceded or appended by the AI moniker. Like turbo, it is the current marketing buzzword and since many don't understand it and what the current engineering and technological limitations are in 2023, it has become part of the mindscape.
You are being tracked and here's how to avoid it
Life, James Hein, Published on 02/02/2022
» I decided to spend some time this week addressing security and data sharing. This was prompted by me reading Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, watching Dr Robert Epstein on The Joe Rogan Experience, my son enrolling in a cyber security course and my experience over the years.
Misunderstood and the Mac experience
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 27/08/2014
» Last week, the Apple video Misunderstood won a Creative Arts Emmy Award. The advertisement features an apparently-dysfunctional teen who is more engaged with the family than first seems when it appeared last year.
3G services could be offered via SMS messages, says NBTC
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 03/01/2013
» The big three operators may be allowed to execute an over-the-air SMS campaign to promote their new third-generation (3G) mobile services, says the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).
Clearing up the static
Business, Published on 22/10/2012
» The sale of 2100-megahertz spectrum licences by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has attracted a storm of controversy over the process and the pricing. Chiratas Nivatpumin and Komsan Tortermvasana tackle some of the questions behind the auction.
Winklevoss twins take Facebook back to court
AFP, Published on 25/06/2011
» Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are attacking Facebook on a new legal front after opting not take their California case to the US Supreme Court.
A nation of chatterboxes
Database, Published on 15/09/2010
» Next Monday, large numbers of heavily armed troops and police will surround a Hua Hin hotel, where bidding for licences will finally proceed _ at least that's the plan. The National Telecommunications Commission announced it will broadcast the 3G auction from Hua Hin on Monday, live; originally the NTC was going to cause a two-hour delay in order to make collusion more likely among the three bidders and commissioners.