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  • TECH

    Last one in, again

    Database, Published on 06/01/2010

    » Never in Thai history has a story that didn't happen so dominate the news and clearly emerge as the Technology Story of the Year; just before the New Year, your TOT flipped a switch that started providing bandwidth of the third-generation kind in a couple of obscure corners of Bangkok, but in truth, 2009 was the year that Laos and Cambodia totally humiliated the telecoms state enterprises by leaving Thailand a far, distant last among Asian countries providing 3G service to yuppiephone subscribers.

  • LIFE

    'War on terror' exacts heavy toll on travellers

    Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 25/01/2010

    » A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council last week paints a shocking picture of how the "war on terror" has affected the global movement of people. It says that surveillance, watch-lists, racial profiling and biometrics, "once the exception have now become customary" and warns the situation could get worse unless safeguards are built in now.

  • TECH

    Getting creative

    Database, Published on 10/02/2010

    » No 1 yuppiephone network Advanced Info Service of Shingapore issued an "Oh yeah?" challenge to you No 1 state-owned G3 provider, TOT, to wit: If you don't let AIS use your 3G services, we won't let any of the TOT subscribers use AIS networks for calling outside the 3G area - meaning about 99.8 percent of Thailand; to rehash the story up to now: AIS has no 3G service but lusts after it, while TOT has installed some 3G carriers for a few thousand users in a couple of corners of Bangkok, and may have some service in Pattaya within a few months, or so.

  • TECH

    Take it all off

    Database, Published on 14/04/2010

    » The most powerful media mogul on Earth challenged the most powerful media company in the explored universe; ''We are going to stop people like Google ... from taking our stories for nothing,'' explained Rupert Murdoch to dutiful reporters at the US National Press Club; he intends to charge Google and other search engines to look at his newspapers' stories _ or ban them from his site; here's the way the world's most fearsome newspaper proprietor thinks about free content on the Internet: Take it all off, because then the public will have to pay; his Wall Street Journalnewspaper has already put out an app for the Apple iPad and an application for readers to buy content, for a mere 400 baht per month or so; he also intends to charge everyone on the planet 2 (100 baht) a month to read his Times of London.

  • LEARNING

    Studying abroad? Take a look at Malaysia

    Mylife, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 22/04/2010

    » When the opportunity to study abroad comes along, the majority of Thai students usually aim for the US or Europe.

  • TECH

    Axis of evil

    Database, Published on 19/05/2010

    » In a shocking, surprising report, the software industry announced that it had been fudging figures on piracy for the past decade; no, just joking; the annual publicity yawn from the BS Artists of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said that Pantip Plaza and pirates like it worldwide took $51.4 billion from the pockets of poor innocent software writers _ $694 million in Thailand alone, but especially the pirates of Brazil, India and China, where PC use is spreading fast; down in the 14th paragraph, the BSA said the "unacceptable" piracy value was down 3 percent from 2008 worldwide, one percent in Thailand; the world's leading software pirate, according to the BSA, is the United States, to the tune of $8.39 billion.

  • TECH

    KYC/CDD to tackle financial terrorism

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 07/07/2010

    » After the 9/11 World Trade Center attack, terrorism became a major global issue. Similarly in Thailand, the torching of many buildings on May 19 has been blamed on terrorists.

  • TECH

    Spies do it, so can you

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 21/07/2010

    » When the FBI finally got tired of following around the Russian sleeper cell last month, it outed the agents in a formal court indictment with lots of juicy details.

  • TECH

    Interactivity, innovation and resiliency

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 04/08/2010

    » Low-cost mobile services, social networks and business resiliency programmes are encouraging businesses to adopt increased interactivity, collaboration and communication.

  • LIFE

    The 'Security' Scare

    Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 27/09/2010

    » A new study in Europe has increased suspicion about the circumstances and timing of "terrorist attacks" that are always followed by calls for stricter airport security, costs notwithstanding.

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