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Gorilla in the midst of digital broadcasting revolution
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/04/2010
» Digital broadcasting is changing the way broadcast media works, with real-time high definition streams being shown across the globe and archives suddenly becoming alive and easily accessible.
Waste not, want not
Database, Published on 10/03/2010
» This just in: Thailand will have 3G phone service in 2010; we know this is true because Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn of the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) said so, as he marked the induction of four new commissioners into the membership of the Magnificent Seven; Mr Prasit said that the NTC's only reason for existence is serving the public by allocating radio frequencies, because an unused frequency is a wasted frequency; pressed by the always doubting media as to whether the NTC will really make 3G available everywhere by New Year's Eve, Mr Prasit declared forthrightly that he will "make an effort". His Majesty the King officially approved the appointment of four new members of the Magnificent Seven - Suranand Wongwittyakamjorn, Banthoon Suphakvanich, Phana Thongmeearchom and Col Natee Sukolrat, who has recently survived a graft investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Private matters
Database, Published on 03/03/2010
» Google sent its best PR people out to tell the media that it was "taken aback" by complaints and a raft of media stories about how Google Buzz had severe privacy issues; the problem, the spin doctors said, was that Buzz was tested inside Google before being foisted on the public at large, and people working at Google didn't seem to mind that the new social network set them up with a group of people to follow and be followed by - presumably because most of them knew each other, or close to it; even the PR mavens seemed hugely unaware that much of the digital world is already sceptical about Google's actions and intentions, since it never provides a clue what it does with the vast amount of information it already has accumulated.