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Beacons of convenience
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 16/09/2015
» Looking for your favourite read in a book store or a product in a supermarket has become easier and faster today after two retailers implemented beacons to better pinpoint in-store locations and send relevant information to customers' smartphones.
The Missing App
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 20/05/2015
» Mobile applications have made people's daily lives easier and more comfortable in many ways. Now the search for missing persons can be aided by the app ThaiMissing.
Kids who code
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 25/03/2015
» What did you do when you were 14? Go to theme parks with friends? Scream at concerts? Well, at 14, Kasidis Arunruangsirilert spends the majority of his time creating mobile applications and is the youngest software developer in Thailand.
A new modern age
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 18/02/2015
» Supak Sudsawad, 81, often used to watch her daughter playing with a tablet, but had no idea how it worked. Unlike other elderly people who perhaps believed technology was something they could never understand, however, Supak usually asks her daughter how the device works. She only wished she could learn how to benefit from it.
Innovative app paying dividends
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/01/2015
» Investing in the stock market is a trader's full-time job. But these days it has become a hobby for some, especially the generation whose lifestyles are usually driven by smartphones.
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.
Meet your matchmaker
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 14/08/2013
» If you are a single person who is always busy with work and has no time to find the one, matchmaker Noonswoon can set you up with a quality match and establish a private connection. The app is one of five winners, out of 116 participant teams, from AIS: The StartUP Weekends 2013.
What's yours is mined
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/06/2013
» Even though we have long known that lawful data interception has been taking place, news of the US National Security Agency (NSA) mining data from leading internet companies has stirred strong reactions from users worldwide.
Appy New Year
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/12/2012
» In the past 12 months, the number of mobile applications has grown tremendously. Apple's App Store has seen a spectacular rise from 500,000 apps last year to one billion in 2012, while the Android apps at Google Play jumped from 400,000 to 700,000.
A flood of ideas
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 21/11/2012
» Crisis can always be turned into opportunity. Saying this, Thailand has experienced no greater crisis in recent times than last year's flood. Grave as the damage was, it did inspire and motivate a group of second year students from King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to develop Flood Finder, a mobile application that helps users report flood conditions and stay informed of water levels.