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NTBC Act gets green light
Database, Published on 02/06/2010
» In a rare all-day session, the senate passed the National Telecommunication and Broadcasting Commission Act by a vote of 85-1 with three abstentions; the upper house put some serious changes in the original law passed by the Lower House, so it could be a while before the act actually takes effect; for example, the senators watered down the national oversight National Telecommunication and Broadcasting Commission (NTBC) by increasing membership from an unwieldy 11 to an unworkable 15; the Lower House can submit to the wise senate, or fight the changes and try to negotiate the final law.
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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.
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Stating the obvious: The GT200 is a fraud
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/02/2010
» It's the emperor's new clothes all over again. The GT200 is a fraud, but why are people so scared to say it?
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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.
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Waste not, want not
Database, Published on 10/03/2010
» This just in: Thailand will have 3G phone service in 2010; we know this is true because Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn of the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) said so, as he marked the induction of four new commissioners into the membership of the Magnificent Seven; Mr Prasit said that the NTC's only reason for existence is serving the public by allocating radio frequencies, because an unused frequency is a wasted frequency; pressed by the always doubting media as to whether the NTC will really make 3G available everywhere by New Year's Eve, Mr Prasit declared forthrightly that he will "make an effort". His Majesty the King officially approved the appointment of four new members of the Magnificent Seven - Suranand Wongwittyakamjorn, Banthoon Suphakvanich, Phana Thongmeearchom and Col Natee Sukolrat, who has recently survived a graft investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
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A hands-on approach to HR
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 31/03/2010
» A Thai software company is leading the way in providing software and services to automate much of the work of HR managers, be it simple payroll processing or recruitment, or psychometric evaluation, in order to help develop the HR function in companies to make the role more professional and strategic.
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Apathy reigns as Thailand continues to fail to embrace its potential
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 06/01/2010
» After so many years of writing, I have ended up with a 'why bother' attitude when it comes to the more controversial news which should matter. Anyone remember the not-very-smart ID cards that cost 888 million baht and which, to this day, are not fully utilised?
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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.
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