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Durian is just a click away
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 14/05/2014
» You can shop for more than just clothes, cosmetics and electronics on Facebook nowadays. The social networking platform is now the place to go to find the king of fruits, the durian.
Turning trash into treasure
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 23/04/2014
» Since yard and car-boot sales are still not very common in this country, it had never occurred to Bangkok businessman Veerapong that he could sell all the junk cluttering up his house, items which he hadn’t used for years and probably never would again. Until the day his daughter pointed to a set of golf clubs that had been leaning against the wall in one room, untouched, for ages and suggested that he should try to flog them online at a website called OLX.
Uber remedy for the taxi blues?
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 16/04/2014
» An office worker who regularly needs to call a cab to take her home from her workplace, Supatra has often been frustrated with the quality of service provided by Bangkok taxi drivers. But now that she's started using a mobile app called Uber to organise taxi rides, she says there's been a vast improvement in the experience.
Cambodia-cam
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 09/04/2014
» Spending a week at Angkor Wat may sound impossible for many people. Some Thais, despite living not far from Siem Reap in Cambodia, haven’t even had a chance to travel there. But technology now brings the majestic temple even closer, as you can virtually roam through Angkor’s historic temples and experience the site, structures and carvings through 360-degree digital imagery.
Heralding a brave new era of e-government service
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 02/04/2014
» Mobile applications have been developed to serve a variety of purposes, but sometimes they can cause headaches for users who are unable to find one that responds perfectly to their specific needs. The good news is that a partial solution may be on the way.
Catalyst for creativity
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/03/2014
» We Thais are big consumers of modern technology, but some of our younger compatriots are also proving expert at inventing exciting new uses for this technology. At the National Software Contest 2014, teams of talented students recently showcased and competed in building computer programs, including apps designed for mobile phones, that showed both ingenuity and great resourcefulness.
Google gets its tones right
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 19/03/2014
» Typing in a key word or phrase has long been the first step in Googling, but staff at the search-engine giant have been busily beavering away behind the scenes to perfect a simpler, more convenient way of trawling for information — by means of voice commands. And recently it became possible to do so in Thai.
What a fabulous find!
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/03/2014
» Travelling by road in a city as notorious for its gridlock as Bangkok, commuters need all the help they can get. Listening to traffic-situation reports on radio stations can be useful, as can rolling down the window to ask for directions from locals in the know like motorcycle-taxi drivers, but both of those options are necessarily limited.
Technology-driven learning
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/03/2014
» Learning English has never been easy and convenient especially in schools in Thailand’s remote areas where the lack of facilities is common. But Khadiyah Amanakun, an English teacher from a school in the southernmost province of Thailand, has proven that with a creative engagement in technology, students can be encouraged to learn the language no matter where they are and either with or without the internet.
The future of chat
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/02/2014
» Although WeChat, China’s top social media app, has yet to garner much popularity in Thailand, it has expanded its features in recent years and started to gain ground in several other Asian countries including Malaysia and Singapore.