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injunction
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 20/09/2010
» an order from a court that prevents a person, company, government, etc., from doing something temporarily คำสั่งคุ้มครองชั่วคราว, คำสั่งห้าม
Bids are in for 3G auction
Database, Published on 25/08/2010
» Bidding papers for Asia's last great 3G auction went on sale at the office of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and five buyers bought eight lots of them; the dark horses from Samart I-Mobile and Loxley plunked down their envelopes of baht, but the Big Boys sent two agents each; there was No 1 yuppiephone firm Advanced Info Service of Shingapore and its subsidiary AWN, No 2 network Dtac of Norway and its subsidiary DTAC Internet Service, and No 3 provider True Move of Thailand and its arm SK Wireless; the big guys are still waiting to see if they can get in on 3G with a "new" firm that isn't beholden to your TOT or your CAT Telecom, and if so, the subsidiaries will be the bidders if licences actually do go under the gavel on Sept 28 - but otherwise the existing companies will bid; the auction could theoretically get hot, but probably cool heads will keep the prices down to a manageable level; setting up and starting a real 3G network will cost at least 30 billion baht on top of the licence fee of 13 to 30 billion, experts believe.
Totally crazy
Database, Published on 18/08/2010
» The Magnificent Seven said sorry, but it forgot to announce some extra stipulations it will put into the third generation (3G) phone bidding that may (or may not) take place in the foreseeable future; any firm winning one of the three 3G licences will of course have to pay somewhere around 12 billion baht, according to estimates by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). But in a whoops-moment, commissioner Suranant Wongwittayakamchorn suddenly remembered that each of them will have to offer free Internet access with 2Mbps lines to 15,000 rural schools for five years; ironically, that is something Samart Corp could do more easily than the Number 1 and Number 1 yuppiephone firms, Advanced Info Service and Dtac, neither of which is an Internet provider.
Data share to boost health
Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 11/08/2010
» Seeing the doctor is expected to become safer and more efficient thanks to pioneering efforts by Ramathibodi Hospital, which is carrying out a medical information interchange between healthcare organisations in Thailand.
Blowing it all, almost
Database, Published on 11/08/2010
» Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd fuelled one of the year's best stories in technology, with a low-life achievement of the non-technology type; he faked expense accounts and acknowledged sexual harassment - but not actual relations - with an employee; Hurd make his reputation as an incredibly good CEO who took HP back to the top in almost all fields, and then the married father of two blew it all; well, make that "almost all" and only including the reputation; Hurd will have to struggle along on the $28 million "golden parachute" deal he got by resigning - $12.2 million in severance pay and 350,000 shares of HP stock, in all just a little short of 900 million baht; of course some of that will go towards what the smarmy ex-CEO called a "settlement" with the woman he harassed, who in turn said nice things about how surprised and saddened she was that Hurd was dumped from HP.
Thailand to take advantage of Asian animation boom
Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 09/06/2010
» The animation industry is apparently one of the few markets to remain unaffected by the political turmoil in Thailand.
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.
Padding the facts
Database, Published on 10/02/2010
» What a difference an "a" makes, announced Apple as it introduced its new iPad (not iPod) tablet; it is the successor to the Apple Newton MessagePad, which went out of production in 1998 after dozens were sold; like the Newton, the iPad will let users write directly on it and save to memory, and cost less than $1,500, or about 50,000 baht in real 2010 money. The Apple iPad tablet (said a writer at Popular Mechanics magazine) might shake up six industries: it could give revenue to newspapers, rebuild comic books because it has colour, make a whole new platform for magazine publishers, revolutionise mobile gaming, kill netbooks for couch surfing, and boost the market for PC parts starting with flash memory.