• LIFE

  TAT sees domestic travel improving

  Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 08/09/2010

  » The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has revised up its projection for domestic tourism this year to 93 million trips, from 90 million estimated earlier, helped by more long weekends and a recovery of local tourist confidence.

• TECH

  Technology in the classroom

  Database, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 08/09/2010

  » In a bid to achieve its mission to make students and teachers competitive with 21st century skills, Dell has rolled out its Connected Classroom solution in Thailand, the first Asean country to adopt it.

• TECH

  Keeping business safe from national cyber threats

  Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 08/09/2010

  » Over the next two months, the mission-critical infrastructure will compel 256 businesses in eight categories to carry out self-assessment of their ability to handle emergencies and threats to national security.

• TECH

  Software Park thinks globally

  Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 08/09/2010

  » Networking collaboration at the regional level and leveraging new channels in cloud computing while creating applications for the mobile App Store marketplace are key strategies to opening new windows of opportunity for Thai software developers in the global business.

• TECH

  3G will create new business models

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/09/2010

  » With the arrival of 3G in Thailand, mobile operators will need new business models and compete on more than just price. In many countries, vendors such as Amazon, HP and Nokia have bypassed the operator directly and become a MVNO, creating a relationship between themselves and the consumer, bypassing the network operator. Quite how the market will adjust will be seen soon as the pieces fall into place.

• TECH

  Choices concerning a dead MacBook Pro

  Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 08/09/2010

  » Problems with my 15" MacBook Pro began in late July. After four months of perfect behaviour, it began to freeze intermittently. Despite several attempts at repair, and a couple of glimmers of false hope, it finally died on me in the middle of August. I covered it in bubblewrap, took it to my office and waited for it to be collected. Two weeks have passed and it is still there. I am considering my options, both for the long term and the short term.

• TECH

  Digital marketing set to explode with broadband and 3G

  Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 08/09/2010

  » The increasing number of broadband users and the coming 3G roll-out is helping make Thailand one of the more attractive global markets as Internet players expand their footprints as digital marketing spending takes off.

• TECH

  The Thai way of doing things

  Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 08/09/2010

  » Whether away of managing certain industries through threats of exclusion from bidding instead of proper rules, and seeing friends have to struggle juggling work with visa runs that benefit no one, the Thai way of doing things has often got me in bit of a mental pickle.

• TECH

  Low-income Thais to see web benefits

  Database, Published on 08/09/2010

  » Chulalongkorn University has launched the Digital Divide Institute to support the Prime Minister's National Broadband Commission in its aim to offer meaningful broadband products and services to 45 million low-income Thais who would otherwise not use the Internet.

• TECH

  Confidence ahead of industry showcase

  Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 08/09/2010

  » Apple's highly successful iPad and other tablet devices from Research In Motion (RIM) and other Android platforms will widen computer users' based, according to Wiroj Asawarungsri, Deputy Managing Director at The Aspirers Group, organiser of the ComWorld Thailand trade event to be staged on Sept 30-Oct 3 at Paragon Hall.

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