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Cisco report highlights security woes
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/09/2010
» Cisco has launched its 2010 mid-year security report, which has shown a sea change in how businesses use IT resources with borderless networks, while IT departments struggle to provide security while coping with users using their personal phones to access corporate IT resources and cloud computing, which processes data outside the corporate data centre.
The case of the missing data privacy law
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 25/08/2010
» The problem with the computer crime law is not the law itself, but the fact that it was designed as a pair of laws and the thrust of criticism levelled at the law today is really a reflection of the missing data privacy law that was drafted alongside it - the yin to the cyber crime law's yang.
Censorship versus security
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 18/08/2010
» Freedom of speech, abuse of power by the government, and the new norms of a democratic society empowered by the Internet were all topics discussed by a wide variety of speakers at a seminar on the third anniversary of the Computer Misuse Act, often known as the Cybercrime law, hosted by the Thai Netizen Network, Media 4 Democracy and the Southeast Asia Press Alliance.
Time to wake up and start running
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 28/07/2010
» State domain assets. That word last popped up in anger during the privatisation of PTT, the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand. A group of activists, led by now Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul launched a legal challenge arguing that while PTT, as a company, could be sold off and privatised, the assets which it had acquired as through its expropriate power as part of the state through its dual role as both a government agency and an operator were to be retained by the state.
The few hopes and many frustrations of a telco boss
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010
» Everything stopped after the latest round of public hearings. The key points that have led to the delay are the mixed political signals regarding concession conversion (ending 2G concessions and turning them into licenses) and the migration to 3G, and the effect this would have on the revenue streams of CAT and ToT. Then there was the question of the legitimacy and power of the caretaker National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). This had to be referred to the Council of State and things got bogged down there.
The fallout from Thaksin's judgement day and how it affects Thailand's telcos
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/03/2010
» Judgement day has come and gone and now mankind is left in the wake of seven hours of court judgement in minute detail of what our former Prime Minister has been up to and been found guilty of, and a lot of that revolves around the telecommunications sector.
Oracle updates HR with Peoplesoft 9.1
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/02/2010
» Oracle has launched Peoplesoft 9.1, bringing HR up to date with the latest in web technology while updating its modules to exceed the best niches that the competition has offered.
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.
The Cat, the Turtle and the Dwarves
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/02/2010
» Once upon a time, in a Kingdom far, far away, there lived a Cat and a Turtle. One day, the Cat and the Turtle came across a substance called Ether that could be used for many magical things such as sending sounds and even text messages over vast distances.
GM says Nokia's future lies in selling experiences
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/02/2010
» Nokia has launched its new X6 smart phone with its first finger-friendly capacitative touch screen aimed at music-sharing youth and firmly painted its future as a services company, not just a phone maker.