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    Friendly fire

    Database, Published on 27/10/2010

    » Steve "President for Life" Jobs, head of the world's second largest company, personally unveiled a new line of thinner, lighter MacBook Airs, each of which costs a mere 33,000 to 53,000 baht in real money; none of the machines has a hard drive, but instead use flash memory, which provides a claimed (and credible) five hours battery life, minimum, while connected to the web and working. Apple chief Steve Jobs announced that Mac OS X Lion will be available in less than a year, and it will be way, way better than the current, apparently pitiful and second-rate OS X, and you, yes you will be privileged to buy it if you want to.

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    Adobe launches Acrobat X

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 03/11/2010

    » Adobe is addressing open collaborative and multimedia documents through Acrobat X, transforming static documents into dynamic ones in a bid to to retain its space in the next-generation online document battlefield.

  • TECH

    Social sites create new forms of Internet piracy

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 29/09/2010

    » Social networking and the surge in the number of broadband users are driving a new form of Internet piracy, while new tablet devices and cloud computing may cause a paradigm shift in the software privacy in the future.

  • TECH

    Murky lead-up

    Database, Published on 01/09/2010

    » Members of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) turned out to be the suspicious type; the Magnificent Seven disclosed they are afraid that the companies who want to bid at the auction for 3G licences might now get together and actually share information about their prospects at the end of the month; in fact from Monday, it will be collusion, it will be a criminal offence for any of the companies to even issue a press release on what its plans might be for 3G; the companies have put in papers to pre-qualify to take part in the auction on Sept 20, along with deposits of 1.28 billion baht apiece, and that money will be seized if any company tries to share its plans with any other; the NTC has asked the Ministry of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT) to coordinate collusion by law enforcement agencies to make sure there is no collusion by the phone companies, top agencies called in as monitors include the DSI and Amlo - Department of Special Investigation and the Anti-Money Laundering Office.

  • TECH

    Keeping abreast of IT security

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 25/08/2010

    » In an increasingly connected world, computer security is no longer the concern of only IT departments, as engineering professionals also need to be aware of the risks when managing controlled systems, according to Chaicharearn Atibaedya, President of PTT ICT Solutions.

  • LEARNING

    Climate change negotiator

    Outlook, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 30/06/2010

    » After long hours in a closed meeting room at climate change negotiations in Bonn earlier this month, Dr Surachai Sathikunarat, a young Thai climate change negotiator, should have had peaceful coffee breaks.

  • TECH

    Getting tough

    Database, Published on 14/07/2010

    » US federal authorities seized nine US-hosted websites and froze the assets of 15 webmasters and others; it was the first shot in "Operation in Our Sites" which the US government launched to combat piracy and counterfeiting on the Internet; filespump.com and eight other similar sites were pumping out movies, software and other illegal warez, including hosting the actual files being downloaded; according to a spokesman for ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), "If the criminals move overseas, we will follow" - and he said there were hundreds of similar sites; according to traffic monitors alexa.com, sites like Filespump were even more popular in Thailand (rank 745) than in the US, where it was barely in the top 1,000 most-visited websites.

  • TECH

    Expert calls for laws to be updated

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 21/07/2010

    » A law expert has suggested that Thailand should update legislation to empower authorities to enforce cyber laws more efficiency.

  • TECH

    Software piracy rate drops 1% despite economic woes

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 19/05/2010

    » Despite the economic downturn, the piracy rate in Thailand fell one percent last year, reaching 75 percent. The widespread adoption of cloud computing and strong enforcement of piracy laws by the government were credited with the dip in piracy, although wider access to broadband is increasing access to pirated products, which may prove attractive to those suffering economically as a result of continuing political unrest this year.

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    Controversy over telecoms act

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 09/06/2010

    » The long-awaited National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) law, which passed senate approval late last month, contains some controversial issues that may set back development in new convergence technology services, especially the number of commission members, inflexible details, an "auction"-only licence acquisition model and the lack of coverage of new media and internet technology.

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