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MS re-claims lead with HD7 phone
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» Microsoft is back to re-claim its throne at the top of the smart phone pecking order with the launch of the Windows Phone 7 HD7 phone that was launched, and immediately sold out, in conjunction with HTC and Dtac.
Future shock: We got it wrong
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» I must have spend much of my childhood wondering about the future. As a child of the '70s, I grew up seeing a bleak, post-apocalyptic vision. Whether it was in the aftermath of a war with the USSR or just a meteor shower leaving humanity blind and eaten by man-eating plants (as in Day of the Triffids) or brainwashed and put into bubble-skinned suits (The Prisoner), the future was scary, yet intriguing, and something to be held in awe.
Symantec boosts authentication
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» After 27 years of providing security for end points, Symantec has launched a new logo and acquired a number of companies that together will provide the trust, strong identity and encryption it needs to protect a world where servers are virtualised and are somewhere in the cloud outside of the company's data centre and where CIOs need to be responsible for data that flows readily to their employee's personal smart phones.
The winding road to 4G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010
» From a world with many technologies in 2G to one with a few in 3G, the world is moving towards LTE as a great harmonising standard. The standard for 1GBPS (that is 1,000MBPS) LTE, the speed that the ITU defines as 4G, is expected to be ratified this year and equipment available by 2014.
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.
Fixing the broken ISP model
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 25/08/2010
» The business model for providing Internet services is broken. Content owners are paying specialist content delivery networks more and more to deliver content which consumers expect for free, leaving the ISP squeezed in the middle with no incentive to invest in more infrastructure to improve quality of service needed for video. That is, until a small British company suddenly found itself in a unique position with the right technology at the right time to fix it.
Unclogging the networks
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 04/08/2010
» While most of today's modern 3G data plans talk of megabytes of data, airtime minutes are still important and telcos need tools to help them see the hidden congestion that is clogging up their networks to provide a better end user experience.
BlackBerry style service for the masses
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 30/06/2010
» Imagine a BlackBerry style service for the masses with monthly fees for push mail at just 18 baht a week that gives telcos the opportunity to get back in on the game and offer value and stickiness to their customers. Tippingpoint provides the software and PT Superphone is providing the hardware, and after success in Indonesia the company is now setting its sights on Thailand.
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.
Research disproves preconceptions about BOP
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 19/05/2010
» Presenting research by student Tahani Iqbal of the Lee Kuan Yew school of public policy, National University of Singapore, who was engaged in exams, Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia CEO showed how research into teleuse at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) has disproved many assumptions about mobile number portability that were learned from developed countries.