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Future shock: We got it wrong
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 22/12/2010
» I must have spend much of my childhood wondering about the future. As a child of the '70s, I grew up seeing a bleak, post-apocalyptic vision. Whether it was in the aftermath of a war with the USSR or just a meteor shower leaving humanity blind and eaten by man-eating plants (as in Day of the Triffids) or brainwashed and put into bubble-skinned suits (The Prisoner), the future was scary, yet intriguing, and something to be held in awe.
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Expert emphasises independence
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/11/2010
» Speaking at a seminar entitled Leadership and the Independent Regulator at Thammasat University, Professor Mark Jamison, Director of the Public Utility Research Centre at the University of Florida, explained why the world needs independent regulators and what independence means when it comes to regulators such as our own National Telecommunications Commission.
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Industry looking to fine-tune performance as popularity grows
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» New 3G technology on the network side could mean a 30 percent improvement in battery life for smart phones, while development of 2G networks continue to increase data capacity in a world that will soon be dominated by handsets sending small amounts of data all day.
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Netapp goes for tierless model
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» Netapp is banking heavily on its partnership with Cisco and VMWare and its new tierless storage model to provide faster, cheaper storage to IT departments to continue the trend of high growth that puts it in an elite group of tech companies that have continued to explode despite the 2009 financial crisis.
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Open Source has won precisely because we no longer notice it
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.
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Jabra expands in wireless market
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010
» Jabra might be known for its stylish consumer Bluetooth headsets but in fact 75 percent of its revenue comes from its enterprise solutions. Pick up the phone to a call centre, and chances are the operator is using a Jabra headset. Go into a modern open-plan office, and chances are the executives walking around are also using long-range Jabra wireless headsets to keep in touch. Ralph Ede, Managing Director for Jabra in South Asia, explained the other three quarters of his business.
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SAP reaching out to SME market through partner network
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010
» KUALA LUMPUR : Enterprise software giant SAP is focusing on on-demand solutions, in-memory databases and increased mobility to change the game in enterprise software and bring it to a new group of small to medium enterprises that until now have looked at SAP as something only for the large corporations.
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The final nail, not a new era
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010
» As Thailand celebrates one year of ToT's 3G network, others will mourn the passing of the Frequency Allocation Act. Instead of marking the beginning of a new dawn in Thailand's telecommunications saga, the act marks the final nail in the coffin for our short-lived attempts to reform the telecommunications sector from a 90s-style state-run concession to a modern, deregulated licensed one.
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AMD: The future is Fusion
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» AMD hosted its sixth annual Technology Forum and Exhibition in Taipei and the message was clear: the future is Fusion.
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'Bulldozer' aims at changing the server landscape
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010
» Don Newell, AMD Senior Vice President and CTO for Servers, said that today the company is focusing on changing four-way server economies. Traditionally, going from two-way to four-way often meant a 3x increase in price, not 2x. With AMD, the linear relationship is restored.
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