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    Drawing the Line on spying on internet chat users

    News, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 23/09/2013

    » Thai police claim that the popular instant messaging app Line is secretly helping them to gain access to chat logs. Naver, its creator, has denied helping them and said it had not received any requests from the Thai police. Both statements are very right, and yet are very, very wrong.

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    Where will the new world order unfold?

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010

    » When Amazon took down the WikiLeaks site from its EC2 cloud, it opened a whole new can of worms as to what can be put in the cloud and what cannot. But for some, there will be a collective sigh of "I told you so", and the loser in this, again, might well be the United States, while the winner... well, that would be whoever moves quickly enough to take advantage of the upcoming exodus.

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    VMWare takes cloud to new level

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/12/2010

    » Virtual servers are now being deployed faster than physical servers and move to cloud will mean that systems management will need to change to cater for thousands or hundreds of thousands of virtual machines in a typical data centre. VMWare, leaders in the virtualisation space, want a seat at your board table to be part of this sea change that is revolutionising the enterprise IT space.

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    Seeking unified global approach to cyber crime

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 20/10/2010

    » With cyber terrorism on the increase, the world's law enforcement agencies need to come together to combat the problem.

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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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    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.

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    Arianespace to focus on Asia-Pacific

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 21/07/2010

    » Arianespace has celebrated its 30th anniversary in bringing affordable satellite launches by focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, which is poised to see high levels of growth in the new few years.

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    Johnsen calls for clarification

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 21/07/2010

    » There is a need to restructure the telco industry and move on from the era of concessions and revenue sharing. It should happen now, before the 3G auction, as the cost of proceeding with an auction on top of this regulatory mess now to fix it at a later date will be much higher than a six-month delay today.

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    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.

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    More pipe dreams

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 16/06/2010

    » Sometimes it is not what they say, but how they say it. The NTC is pushing Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and hopes for a roll-out as soon as September, but if the comments from the focus group were anything to go by, we can expect to continue waiting and praying for the foreseeable future.

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