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Need to know
Database, Published on 17/02/2010
» The US Federal Bureau of Investigation began a campaign to force all Internet providers in the United States to record and file all web activity by all users, all the time, in case the FBI ever needed the information; FBI director Robert Mueller said he wants storage of "origin and destination information," able to be retrieved with a search warrant issued by a judge in important cases such as terrorism, kidnapping, criticism of FBI and the like; in a huge, shocking coincidence, pretty well every US state investigation bureau backed the FBI proposal, because you never know when a state prosecutor might need information about the surfing habits of a nefarious outlaw, paedophile or political opponent, not that top investigators would ever stoop to asking for politically related surfing records, perish the thought; the FBI, by the way, does not want actual data such as email retained, only the information recording the origin and destination of a web session - for now.
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Who's next?
Database, Published on 24/02/2010
» Is Thailand next? Google said it will stop censoring for the Chinese government Real Soon Now, and last week told the Australian Censor Board to pound sand when the Ozzies asked Google to please censor YouTube videos from their "refused classification" bin; pretty much under the radar, Google has been happy to censor on behalf of the Thai government as well, since a previous administration cut off access to YouTube over a royal insult.
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Call in the cyber warriors
Database, Published on 14/07/2010
» After the authorities detained him for two months without bail, friends of Wipas Raksakulthai revealed that the 37-year-old Ranong businessman had been jailed over posts found by the Centre for Repressing Embarrassing Subjects; handsome CRES spokesmen were unavailable for direct comment, but friends said Mr Wipas was a well-known red shirt; since his arrest, Thai Facebook users have criticised him, and have revealed personal information meant for friends on his web page; according to Mr Wipas' friends, a network of Thai Facebook users exists to seek and inform the CRES and the Ministry of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT) when they find nasty writing; media expert Supinya Klangnarong said it was ominous that the government had spread its censorship policies to social networks.
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Perish the thought
Database, Published on 28/07/2010
» The alleged "plan" by Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij to change the current yuppiephone concession contracts - and incidentally mortally wound Shin Corp and its No 1 network Advanced Info Service although that's not the purpose, perish the thought - has thrown business, government, regulators and even the Senate into a tizzy; the kindest people said Mr Korn had good intentions, lousy planning; others were not so charitable; they noted that his plan to issue AIS, Dtac of Norway and True Move of Thailand with 15-year licences was highly questionable in legal terms, and almost impossible to regulate; Anant Vorathitipong, vice-chairman of the Senate subcommittee on communications technology, warned that the minister could land the government in lawsuits up to taxpayers' necks.
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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.
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Automate backups, and never forget
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 11/08/2010
» We all do backups, right? And almost all of us have incredibly sad stories, heart-wrenching stories, about why we don't have backups when the computer lets us down again.
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Light at the end of the tunnel
Database, Published on 13/10/2010
» No 1 yuppiephone firm Advanced Info Service of Shingapore admitted it has already pulled back funds once set for 3G investment, and will pour them into content creation and upgrading the tired old reliable boring Edge system for Internet content; Prattana Leelapanang, AIS president in charge of vice for wireless businesses, said that the company was simply moving away from 3G once again; the big deal now in 3G-starved Thailand will be in data, but using the 2G-friendly Edge system to do it; look for AIS to push deals with well-known content firms; two subsidiaries set up specifically to handle 3G matters, Mimo Technology and Advanced Wireless Network, will be repositioned as data content aggregator.
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Follow the leader
Database, Published on 27/10/2010
» Online analytics researchers Digital Daya reported that US President Barack Obama is the top tweeter among world leaders, with 5.6 million followers; the big news was the world leader who came No 9 in the results: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand, with 137,000 followers; Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan was the only other Asian in the Top 10, at number five, while the second biggest surprise on the list was Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan - the third most-followed leader, after Mr Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron; for those who aren't following Asia's only British-born prime minister on Twitter, he is at (@PM - Abhisit).
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One born every minute
Database, Published on 15/12/2010
» The cabinet decided that instead of raising the bridge, it would lower the water; by an unknown vote, the ministers voted to tell the Industry Minister to lower the standards that make ID cards so darned smart, and accept dumber ones; the thing is that the Ministry of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT) has already ordered 26 million of blank not-so-smart cards, and, well, paid for them; the Industry Ministry wants smart cards, not partly smart ones, and rejected them; c'mon, said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and some supporters - take these ones that are almost smart enough; if you believe that a lot of money for a certain political party is at stake in the smart-card contract - double the amount if they have to be reprinted by the heavily connected contractors V Smart Joint Venture - you are smarter than any ID card.
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The waiting game
Database, Published on 29/12/2010
» The big news in Thailand in 2010 was 3G phone service, or rather the lack of it; but everyone knows that; first, though, the really big news in Thailand that almost no one noticed was that one Thai in 10 is now on Facebook, the social network announcing at year's end that it has 6.5 million registrations from the kingdom; in fact, Thailand was one of the world's fastest growing markets for the only network that had a movie made about it in 2010; for several years, Thais up to and including Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had scorned the US-centric networks to give their loyalty to Hi5, but they threw Hi5 under the bridge in 2010.
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