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No more Mr Nice Guy
Database, Published on 03/11/2010
» In the most exciting news since Microsoft allowed people to begin buying Windows 7, Microsoft said that Windows 7 isn't really all that great _ but wait until you see the spectacular, wonderful Windows 8; it will be about two years before you can actually get it; according to a document accidentally leaked by Microsoft, it will boot really fast, work really well with tablets and have body-sensing features like the Wii _ really.
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The winding road to 4G
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/09/2010
» From a world with many technologies in 2G to one with a few in 3G, the world is moving towards LTE as a great harmonising standard. The standard for 1GBPS (that is 1,000MBPS) LTE, the speed that the ITU defines as 4G, is expected to be ratified this year and equipment available by 2014.
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Cancel all technology
Database, Published on 22/09/2010
» Oh, come on, who wants that icky 3G mobile phone service anyhow, right?; it's so simple, even Cambodians and Laotians can do it, where's the challenge?; and anyway, your CAT Telecom and your ToT won't survive if they have to go out and get actual jobs, instead of renting out their concessions to the private sector; all in all, no 3G is the natural way of things, and everyone will be much better off using their time constructively instead of looking at that Internet thingamy on their phone, right? Right?
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Follow the leader
Database, Published on 27/10/2010
» Online analytics researchers Digital Daya reported that US President Barack Obama is the top tweeter among world leaders, with 5.6 million followers; the big news was the world leader who came No 9 in the results: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand, with 137,000 followers; Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of Japan was the only other Asian in the Top 10, at number five, while the second biggest surprise on the list was Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan - the third most-followed leader, after Mr Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron; for those who aren't following Asia's only British-born prime minister on Twitter, he is at (@PM - Abhisit).
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Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 27/10/2010
» ''Change the world, one map at a time'' says ShowWorld _ and that's exactly what it does. Thanks to a clever bit of computer programming, this week's Internet Site of the Week displays a world map containing various facts and figures drawn from reliable sources like Unicef, Amnesty International, World Steel, The World Bank and others.
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Taxing woes
Database, Published on 20/10/2010
» Cabinet approved a draft law for a "green tax" on all industries, to kick in by 2012; there is still some work to do but proposed rates are in the neighbourhood of 10,000 baht per tonne of waste water, 2,500 baht per tonne of emissions and 15 percent of 1,000 baht per tourist; Big Business enthusiastically welcomed the environmental tax proposal, but had a couple of teensy weensy little worries, hardly worth mentioning but still... such as about consumer resistance when they push the new taxes onto the public because no way will business absorb the costs; and also there's unfairness of, say, shops along the Chao Phraya dumping pollution and not having to pay any tax; also, there is concern over calling tourists "pollution"; but really, all in all, an excellent idea.
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Irreverent and irrelevant
Database, Published on 20/10/2010
» Microsoft unveiled its most important product of 2010, the Windows Phone 7, a smart phone that puts the company clearly at a make-or-break landmark; not only is the phone itself - which got good early reviews - important for income and prestige, but Microsoft is counting on Windows Mobile 7 to sell a gazillion copies and power a jillion apps; as ICD analyst put it, "On a scale of 1 to 10, this (phone launch) is an 11"; of course, you are far too foreign to be allowed to have a Windows Phone 7; within a day, phone makers HTC, Dell, Samsung and LG all had jumped on the Windows Phone 7 platform, with additional features including pop-out speakers and Qwerty keyboards.
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Call in the cyber warriors
Database, Published on 14/07/2010
» After the authorities detained him for two months without bail, friends of Wipas Raksakulthai revealed that the 37-year-old Ranong businessman had been jailed over posts found by the Centre for Repressing Embarrassing Subjects; handsome CRES spokesmen were unavailable for direct comment, but friends said Mr Wipas was a well-known red shirt; since his arrest, Thai Facebook users have criticised him, and have revealed personal information meant for friends on his web page; according to Mr Wipas' friends, a network of Thai Facebook users exists to seek and inform the CRES and the Ministry of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT) when they find nasty writing; media expert Supinya Klangnarong said it was ominous that the government had spread its censorship policies to social networks.
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Tracking digital footprints
Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 21/07/2010
» 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." That famous caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner from 1993 still holds true in 2010. It's getting harder and harder to identify real people online on the ubiquitous social networking site, Facebook.
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How to get around your ISP or country's restrictions
Database, James Hein, Published on 21/07/2010
» Internet control around the world seems to be settling out into a number of different camps. On the one hand there are the open Internet societies such as you might find in places like the United States. Next are those places that specifically restrict subject matter on a case by case basis if it causes some offence, like Qatar, Pakistan and Bangladesh. At the bottom of the stack or the restrictive nations that actively censor all manner of sources, like you may find in places like China and North Korea. Places like Thailand are not as free as the US but nowhere near as restrictive as China.
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