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    Qualcomm promises a revolution

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010

    » HONG KONG: Dual core snapdragons, e-readers based on the design of a butterfly's wings and body area networks that will revolutionise e-Health are just some of the things that telecommunications giant Qualcomm says we can expect to see and buy in 2011.

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    Where will the new world order unfold?

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010

    » When Amazon took down the WikiLeaks site from its EC2 cloud, it opened a whole new can of worms as to what can be put in the cloud and what cannot. But for some, there will be a collective sigh of "I told you so", and the loser in this, again, might well be the United States, while the winner... well, that would be whoever moves quickly enough to take advantage of the upcoming exodus.

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    Thai banks face strong competition in Asean

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 15/12/2010

    » Thai banks will need to get their act together to cope with increased competition when deregulation happens in 2015 with the advent of the Asean Economic Community.

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    A worm that has me in fear - and in awe

    Database, James Hein, Published on 15/12/2010

    » I was pondering what I was going to write about this week when I saw the name Stuxnet. At first it looked like just another worm until I started to do some digging.

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    Little things mean a lot

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 15/12/2010

    » Every so often, it's worth looking at the latest in small utilities, what the former Database columnist and programmer John "The Maven" DeHaven called sharp-edged tools. I like to look over the new offerings at least every 100 days.

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    One born every minute

    Database, Published on 15/12/2010

    » The cabinet decided that instead of raising the bridge, it would lower the water; by an unknown vote, the ministers voted to tell the Industry Minister to lower the standards that make ID cards so darned smart, and accept dumber ones; the thing is that the Ministry of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT) has already ordered 26 million of blank not-so-smart cards, and, well, paid for them; the Industry Ministry wants smart cards, not partly smart ones, and rejected them; c'mon, said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and some supporters - take these ones that are almost smart enough; if you believe that a lot of money for a certain political party is at stake in the smart-card contract - double the amount if they have to be reprinted by the heavily connected contractors V Smart Joint Venture - you are smarter than any ID card.

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    Payback time

    Database, Published on 15/12/2010

    » Hackers, crackers, script kiddies and self-styled anarchists (safely behind their keyboards) piled in to the WikiLeaks cyberorgy; several ISPs stopped hosting WikiLeaks because of the denial-of-service attacks from anti-WikiLeaks "activists" - and others piled into attacks on MasterCard, PayPal and other operations deemed to be anti-WikiLeaks, or weak-kneed in the face of government outrage against total freedom of speech on the Internet.

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    Plan now to recover files

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 15/12/2010

    » It is my strong opinion that everyone should have - right now - a program to recover lost files. That is because everyone, once in a while, realises just a half-second too late that, whoops, she just deleted the wrong folder, or wiped the camera card before she copied the photos.

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    Internet Site of the Week

    Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 15/12/2010

    » Facebookers (and you know who you are), you're in for a treat. It's a new web browser called RockMelt designed, from the ground up, to be a ''social browser'' and to put all your Facebook and Twitter feeds on one screen.

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    Two initials that always get it right

    Mylife, Published on 15/12/2010

    » In a world driven by, and dependent on technology, the not so humble consumer needs computers that really do deliver what is promised.

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