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All good things must come to an end
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/01/2011
» I got my first computer, an Apple II when I was around 5 years old. It was a simple machine, 48KB of RAM (or was it later upgraded to 48KB?), Integer basic (Applesoft Basic came later), cassette tape to store programs and used a TV as a monitor.
Symantec boosts authentication
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» After 27 years of providing security for end points, Symantec has launched a new logo and acquired a number of companies that together will provide the trust, strong identity and encryption it needs to protect a world where servers are virtualised and are somewhere in the cloud outside of the company's data centre and where CIOs need to be responsible for data that flows readily to their employee's personal smart phones.
Next generation data centres
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 13/10/2010
» HP has deployed its next generation data centre in a container - the HP performance-optimised data centre, or POD - for the first time in Asia-Pacific, in Australia.
The Thai way of doing things
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/09/2010
» Whether away of managing certain industries through threats of exclusion from bidding instead of proper rules, and seeing friends have to struggle juggling work with visa runs that benefit no one, the Thai way of doing things has often got me in bit of a mental pickle.
Compassionate thinking contributes to corruption
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 30/06/2010
» So, the new ICT Minister wants to reopen the case file on the not-so-smart ID cards. Good luck. He will need it as the way government works means that most moderate people would probably agree with things.
More pipe dreams
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010
» Sometimes it is not what they say, but how they say it. The NTC is pushing Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and hopes for a roll-out as soon as September, but if the comments from the focus group were anything to go by, we can expect to continue waiting and praying for the foreseeable future.
Not quite a God Phone, but I couldn't be happier with the Nexus One
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 05/05/2010
» Google Nexus One. What does it mean? How good is it? Is it really the God Phone that many have been talking about? Or is it a failed experiment given its dismal sales compared not only to the iPhone, but even its fellow Android by Motorola.
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.
Big Brother is watching - and waiting to break down your doors
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/02/2010
» What do the GT200 magic wand and the Internet Sniffer project have in common? Both are an assault on privacy and allow the state to pick on anyone at will.