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    Spending by SMEs on IT to lead Asean

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 06/07/2022

    » Thailand is projected to lead Asean in terms of IT spending by small enterprises in 2025 thanks to the country's digitalisation drive, according to market research company IDC.

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    Seamless synchronicity

    Life, James Hein, Published on 11/09/2019

    » As I was walking to work thinking about this week's column, I did a quick self-inventory. I was listening to On Liberty by John Stuart Mill through my noise cancelling headphones. The audio was being sent by Bluetooth from my Samsung Galaxy S10 5G phone that I was also using to play a location-based game, Ingress. This was being fed my position by satellite and receiving information from the internet via my phone's data connection. Occasionally I would pull down the notification tab to see what was on for the day and who had tried to contact me via a number of social-media services.

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    Digital industry sentiment index edges lower in Q3

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 24/11/2023

    » The digital industry sentiment index dipped to 53.2 in the third quarter from 54.1 in the previous quarter, attributed to economic factors such as higher interest rates, uncertainty regarding government policies, and a slowdown in the economies of Thailand's trading partners.

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    Cloud, data centre providers plug perks

    Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 13/10/2023

    » Thailand should offer more incentives to the business sector to use cloud and data centre services, making such facilities critical infrastructure, according to cloud and data centre providers in Thailand.

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    Regional spending set to grow by 7%

    Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 14/06/2023

    » Tech spending in Thailand and four other Southeast Asian economies is projected to grow 7% this year to approach US$47 billion, despite a number of challenges such as fragile post-pandemic supply chains, according to UK-based research and advisory firm Forrester.

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    Huawei commits to bridging the digital divide, connecting to the digital world

    Published on 25/11/2022

    » Huawei has signed a global commitment to join the International Telecommunication Union's Partner2Connect digital alliance, which will bring connectivity to about 120 million people in remote areas in more than 80 countries by 2025.

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    Malaysia's digital challenges

    Asia focus, Published on 04/04/2022

    » The digitisation of the global economy has been helping many businesses to thrive in ways not possible just a decade ago. At a time of fragile economic recovery, digital technologies such as e-commerce platforms can play an important role in promoting trade expansion, notably cross-border trade, as well as productivity gains.

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    The eternal debate between privacy and security

    Life, James Hein, Published on 01/03/2017

    » What is the line dividing privacy from national security? If you are a privacy advocate, the line is closer to "everything is private". If you are a nation state wanting to protect its interests, that line falls somewhere nearer to your preschool diary. Homeland in the US is working on a policy requiring selected non-citizens entering the US to provide the passwords to their social media accounts to gain entry. This has triggered feedback from human rights groups, civil liberties groups and a bunch of professors. Given that every nation has a right to protect its borders and a customs official can search everything else you bring in, why not information in the digital realm?

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    Cuba slashes internet costs

    AFP, Published on 20/12/2016

    » HAVANA - Cuba cut the price of internet access by 25 percent Monday, but getting online still costs more than a day's wages for the average worker in one of the world's least connected countries.

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    Technology and education: an evolving alliance

    Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 17/08/2016

    » Technology is playing a role in transforming education. With its power to accelerate students' learning, education technology (or EdTech) should put an emphasis on improving the relationship between teachers and students and overall atmosphere in schools, experts say.

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