Bangkok, March 1 - Thailand's military-appointed government prevented the launch of a new television station by former members of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party, saying it was about to break the law.
State telecoms firms blocked satellite links and Internet connections of People's Television (PTV) because it had not been granted a licence to broadcast, Public Relations Department chief Pramoj Rathavinij told Reuters.
"Both CAT Telecom and TOT, which control Thailand's...... (read more)
Bangkok Feb. 11: Mobile Content Networks, Inc. (MCN), a leading provider of mobile search solutions, today announced it was chosen as the real-time mobile search solution platform for Total Access Communications Plc (DTAC), one of Thailand's largest mobile phone operators with over twelve million subscribers. The solution, built in partnership with DTAC in four weeks, represents the next generation of mobile search where the content providers are queried in real-time with MCN's MobileSearch.net...... (read more)
Bangkok, February 4: IBM, a leading American information technology firm, will help Thailand train local IT experts for Thailand to become a major international computer outsourcing centre, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula.
IBM executive vice president Nicholas Donofrio led a group of IBM executives to meet the Deputy Prime Minister at Government House yesterday.
Pridiyathorn told reporters afterwards that the IBM executives signed...... (read more)
Bangkok, Jan 8: The Thai government blocked access Monday to a U.S.-based pornography website that uses an image of Buddha as its logo and is calling on Buddhists around the world to condemn the site, an official said.
The Chicago-based website, buddha-porn.com, features sexually explicit material beneath an image of a golden statue of a seated Buddha and contains pornographic images divided up in different categories named, the Buddha Galleries, Nirvana Galleries, and Satori Galleries -...... (read more)
BANGKOK, Dec 31 - The time when sending a New Year card by post are gone and mostly forgotten as Thai young people have discovered instant text messaging and e-cards as increasingly attractive ways of saying "Happy New Year," according to a survey by the Kasikorn Research Centre.
The number of SMS messages sent on December 31 and January 1 is expected to increase five-fold to 70 million messages while the number of e-cards sent during the same period would rise by 30-40
per cent.
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BANGKOK, Dec 21 - Thailand's information technology market is expected to grow 17 per cent next year as small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are counting more on IT services, according to a leading industry executive.
IDC Research (Thailand) Co. manager Jeffrey Sae Ueng said that total spending on IT will grow 17 per cent next year, while total sales of computers are likely to increase by 27 per cent compared to this year.
To date 1.5 million computer units have been placed for sale...... (read more)
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