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A bite of the Apple
Database, Published on 20/01/2010
» Google released the Nexus One smart phone, an impressive gadget that will push more improvements in the iPhone, but will not immediately take much more than a nibble out of the Apple; the new phone runs on the Google operating system, and starts life with more than 18,000 apps - about 15 percent of the Apple selection but, on the other hand, able to multi-task, something the iPhone apps won't do; the big deal about Nexus One, however, is only about US and Canada, where Google aims to be, very roughly, what Number 2 yuppiephone firm DTAC was when the Norwegians took it over and it unlocked its phones; that is what Google is doing with Nexus, which is made by HTC of Taiwan and costs $529 or 17,500 baht in real money - but which is unlocked and will work with any carrier; this is a revolution in the US wireless industry, where phones are totally locked into carriers, and if you want an iPhone, you sign a two-year, near-usurious contract with AT&T; phone companies will feature the Nexus One - T-Mobile subsidises it for $179 for Americans who agree in writing to pay $79.99 a month for the next two years, or 6,000 plus 2,700 baht in real money; but Google will sell you the phone for use with any carrier from its website (google.com/phone) and this is the first crack in the phone-company control of the business.
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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.
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Kaspersky wants digital passports
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/09/2010
» In the '90s we had cyber hooligans and cyber vandals who wrote viruses just for the fun of it. In the first decade of the 21st century, cyber criminals aimed at enriching themselves. Today, with the discovery of the new Stuxnet worm, the world is facing the threat of cyber terrorism.
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Yahoo! net profit jumps, revenue slips
AFP, Published on 26/01/2011
» Yahoo! reported Tuesday that its net profit more than doubled in the final three months of last year, despite a slip in revenue due to its online search deal with Microsoft.
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Readers, bloggers sound off on Huff Post sale
AFP, Published on 13/02/2011
» When The Huffington Post was sold to AOL last Monday for $315 million, its founder, Arianna Huffington, was feted as a new media pioneer. Not everyone is celebrating, however.
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AT&T, T-Mobile deal to draw regulatory scrutiny
AFP, Published on 22/03/2011
» AT&T's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA is going to be put under a microscope by US anti-trust authorities but the telecom giant is certain it will stand up to examination.
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Cisco buys collaboration software firm Versly
AFP, Published on 29/08/2011
» US networking giant Cisco announced Monday it has acquired Versly, a startup that makes collaboration tools for Microsoft's popular Office software.
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Burma: Hillary Clinton's historic visit
Jon Fernquest, Published on 02/12/2011
» Analysis of Hillary Clinton's historic visit to Burma by scholar Ernest Bower of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Singapore.
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Texas Rangers introduce prized import Darvish
AFP, Published on 21/01/2012
» The Texas Rangers formally introduced prize acquisition Yu Darvish, saying the Japanese star pitcher is the kind of player they need as they strive for a World Series title.
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Healthy foreign fund flows keep asian markets humming
Business, Published on 06/02/2012
» Recap: The SET was very active last week as foreign fund flows into Asia picked up and hopes improved for a settlement of Greek debt problems. As well, sentiment was buoyed by good January economic figures for the US, China and Germany, and the likelihood of record-low US interest rates for another two years.
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