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Drive for SMEs to embrace IT potential
Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 27/01/2010
» With 2.8 million small businesses in Thailand, various government agencies are collaborating with the private sector to encourage greater adoption of information technology through incentive programs designed to strengthen the kingdom's competitiveness.
A better way to find torrents
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/01/2010
» Way back in the last decade a few weeks ago, I wrote a review of a small desktop program that you could use to search for torrents. And as the second decade of the millennium dawned, the main website for that program disappeared.
A bite of the Apple
Database, Published on 20/01/2010
» Google released the Nexus One smart phone, an impressive gadget that will push more improvements in the iPhone, but will not immediately take much more than a nibble out of the Apple; the new phone runs on the Google operating system, and starts life with more than 18,000 apps - about 15 percent of the Apple selection but, on the other hand, able to multi-task, something the iPhone apps won't do; the big deal about Nexus One, however, is only about US and Canada, where Google aims to be, very roughly, what Number 2 yuppiephone firm DTAC was when the Norwegians took it over and it unlocked its phones; that is what Google is doing with Nexus, which is made by HTC of Taiwan and costs $529 or 17,500 baht in real money - but which is unlocked and will work with any carrier; this is a revolution in the US wireless industry, where phones are totally locked into carriers, and if you want an iPhone, you sign a two-year, near-usurious contract with AT&T; phone companies will feature the Nexus One - T-Mobile subsidises it for $179 for Americans who agree in writing to pay $79.99 a month for the next two years, or 6,000 plus 2,700 baht in real money; but Google will sell you the phone for use with any carrier from its website (google.com/phone) and this is the first crack in the phone-company control of the business.
Compatibility problems
Database, Published on 20/01/2010
» I took my compact 2.5 HD external storage device on vacation to Canada recently hoping to show my daughters some photos of amazing Thailand. My daughters both have relatively mew Macs and although the machines recognised an external drive was connected they refused to open the device to show the photos.
Out with the old, in with the new
Outlook, Marius Murdoch, Published on 14/01/2010
» It might seem like the ancient past, but it wasn't so long ago that we lived in the dark ages of dial-up internet, floppy disks, pagers and fax machines. Luckily these old-hats died with dignity, and while we may miss the harrowing screams of connecting modems, good riddance to bad rubbish. But other technologies seem insistent on carrying on, despite smarter and more accessible alternatives gaining saliency in the new decade. What looked to be consumer mainstays seem poised for poor performance and obsolescence this year. Here's a list of some of the stale technologies of 2010.
Nexus One to redefine smart phone high end
Database, Published on 13/01/2010
» Last week, Google launched the Nexus One, an HTC-built phone using Google's own mobile software platform, Android. The high-end handset, described by Google as a 'Super Phone', will compete directly with other high-end Android phones.
Cracking good time
Database, Published on 13/01/2010
» German tech nerd Karsten Nohl showed off at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin how he cracked the encryption that you were trusting to keep your phone calls un-tappable throughout Thailand; the researcher proved it would be pretty simple to crack any GSM encryption; he said the 20-year-old encryption algorithm used by most GSM companies is simply too weak, and can be cracked by anyone who really cares; he released all the data, cracking tables and instructions, but did not give away an actual cracking program, because that might be illegal.
3D TV, cloud computing and USB 3.0 to lead way in 2010
Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 13/01/2010
» 2010 will be the year in which storage and connectivity play a key role for consumers, while social networking will find its way deeper into enterprises where virtualisation and cloud computing are moving forward.
Talk is cheap
Database, Published on 13/01/2010
» Technology monitor Fast Market Research of America reported that domestic Thai consumers and companies bought $2.7 billion worth of computers in 2009 - almost 89 billion baht in real money; the research firm said this was "slight growth" from 2008; the report said personal computers still had only about 14 percent market penetration, leaving lots of room for future growth; phone sales will continue to be dominated by lower-priced handsets, the report confirmed (see later item in this summary); the last full report showed overall electronics sales in Thailand around $4.9 billion in 2008 - 163 billion baht in today's currency.
Software innovation expands domestically and internationally
Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 13/01/2010
» Software Park Thailand will join forces with alliances and provincial parks to achieve its 2010 mission of "Differentiation of business with IT innovation".