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Testing Facebook's new reaction emojis.
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 10/10/2015
» Let's see how well Facebook's reaction emojis, now being tested in Ireland and Spain, work with a series of news items in today's Bangkok Post.
Exhausting all risk
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 15/05/2013
» With Bangkok among the top 20 cities in Asia for concentrations of the cancer-causing benzo(a)pyrene, Thai researchers have come up with a way for you to measure it.
Put a little light on the subject
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 14/02/2012
» There's a US keyboard being pitched mostly in TV adverts of a large-character device that glows in the dark, so when the sun goes down you can continue working and still see your keyboard.
Modern but not developed
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 17/06/2011
» Is it a sign of age? Nothing seems to surprise me much these days. Indeed, the only thing able to surprise me is the fact that some things never change despite how much the world has changed.
Survey reveals huge redundancy
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/12/2010
» Thailand is already swamped with fibre-optic cables connecting every district and does not need to spend on yet another next generation network (NGN) project. Instead, work should focus on using the idle existing networks and building out the last mile to the villages and homes, according to academics from Thammasat University's Faculty of Economics.
After the deluge
Database, Published on 03/11/2010
» As soon as the first five videos alleging misconduct by the Constitution Court appeared on YouTube, police opened a criminal investigation _ to find whoever uploaded them.
Taxing woes
Database, Published on 20/10/2010
» Cabinet approved a draft law for a "green tax" on all industries, to kick in by 2012; there is still some work to do but proposed rates are in the neighbourhood of 10,000 baht per tonne of waste water, 2,500 baht per tonne of emissions and 15 percent of 1,000 baht per tourist; Big Business enthusiastically welcomed the environmental tax proposal, but had a couple of teensy weensy little worries, hardly worth mentioning but still... such as about consumer resistance when they push the new taxes onto the public because no way will business absorb the costs; and also there's unfairness of, say, shops along the Chao Phraya dumping pollution and not having to pay any tax; also, there is concern over calling tourists "pollution"; but really, all in all, an excellent idea.
20th century boys
Database, Published on 06/10/2010
» After all that, the cabinet simply voted quickly to put the country firmly and finally and expensively on the road to the 20th century in mobile phone technology; it will cost you 19.98 billion baht for starters; without a whimper or a word of dissent, ministers voted to let your ToT build and service a 3G network, don't worry about all that stuff about bidding and licences and auction and regulators; the Democrat Party, which late last century gave you Thai Mobile, or SuthepNet, at a cost of mere tens of billions of baht, now presents JutiNet, at a cost still to be determined; chief sponsor of the surprise bill to "approve the ToT business plan" was Juti Krairiksh, the Minister of Internet Censorship for Thailand (MICT); under "the master plan", to coin a 20th century phrase, ToT will build 3G nodes that will cover Bangkok and at least 12 surrounding provinces with full 3G coverage; then the state-run firm will lease out the network, chiefly to virtual operators such as Samart Telecom; initial recipients of largesse from the cabinet decision, apart from politicians, will be ZTE and Huawei Technology, neither of which appeared embarrassed by previous revelations of their Thailand operations; immediately after the cabinet decision, ToT promised to hire some foreign firms to help them get started on the business plan, which they hadn't written yet.
Open source building momentum in Thailand
Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 22/09/2010
» Leading conglomerates and state enterprises are rolling out the expansion of open source technology, while the government has opened the terms of reference for open source bidding, driving momentum in Thailand.
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.