Thailand
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True Move to invest despite slump
News Thailand's third-largest mobile operator reaffirms it will continue to invest in the country's broadband development despite the current economic slowdown.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Mobile, Investment, Wireless Broadband, Thailand, Analogue, Wireless, Broadband, Supachai, cable television
Thailand's video games potential
News International experts view Thailand as a professional and fast growing source for game and animation development and services, advising that now is the right time to bring Thai products to the global market.
Tags: Games, Video Game, Thailand, Animation, Video, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, game company, 3D, Apple iPhone
AIS full-year profit up despite poor Q4
News Despite a 92 percent fall in fourth-quarter 2008 earnings, Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service reports full-year net profit increase of 0.7 percent to US$462 million.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Thailand, Bangkok, Survey, stock exchange, net profit
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
Thailand enters Gartner's Top 30 offshore service providers
News However, there are several urgent steps that the Thai government should take if Thailand is to fully take advantage of the country's outsourcing potential.
Tags: Newbie, Personal broadband, Business broadband, Change mangement, Entrepreneurship, Politics, Outsourcing, India, Thailand, Information And Communication Technology
Microsoft is expanding and investing in Thailand
News The software giant will collaborate with the country's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center on research and development, among other initiatives.
Tags: Innovation, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Mobile, Thailand, software testing, memorandum of understanding, Nectec, software, R&D
Samsung sets US$1B target for Thailand
News The Korean company has set ambitious growth targets for Thailand and other markets as it prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary of global operations in 2010.
Tags: Business development/management, Investments, Strategy, Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Storage, TV, Thailand, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., marketing
Still no universal broadband access in Thailand
News More fiber networks will be rolled out to the well-to-do this year, but lack of government subsidy and strategy will prevent cheap connectivity to the masses, says Ovum.
Tags: Cable, DSL, 3G (Third Generation), Network infrastructure, Alcatel, Ovum, India, Fiber, Telecommunications, Thailand
Thai IT sector counts cost of strike
News Thailand's IT sector's losses as a result of the recent week-long Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports closure are estimated to be US$28 million a day.
Tags: Investments, Hardware, Security, Disaster Recovery, Conference, Thailand, Airport Closure, business continuity, software, job
Nokia adjusts to regain market share in Thailand
News Company's Thai operations plans to focus on its integrated product and services strategy under a "handsets plus solutions and services" approach.
Tags: Sales strategy, Forecasting, Sales/revenue, Business structures, Mobile, Thailand, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, business strategy, Forecasting, Nokia Thailand
IBM highlights new threats
News IBM highlighted that virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS (software-as-a-service) are new vectors for security attacks, together helping to drive the security market in Thailand to around US$28 million this year.
Tags: Hacking, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Security, Thailand, Insider Threat, Digital Identity, Harley-Davidson Inc., financial accounting
Intel rallies Thai broadband industry
News The chip giant urges IT industry operators, regulators and think-tanks in Thailand to make available five million broadband Internet ports in the country by 2010.
Tags: Personal broadband, Business broadband, Investments, Web sites, Intel Corp., Internet Access, Thailand, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, NTC
New HP Thai chief optimistic after EDS acquisition
News Despite the economic downturn, Hewlett-Packard Thailand plans to aggressively penetrate the software and outsourcing services markets, and is optimistic about business growth in 2009.
Tags: Business applications, Services, Service level management, Storage, Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Thailand, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Storage
Thai managed services market booming
News The outsourcing market in Thailand contributes about 25 percent of the overall IT services market, worth US$856 million and expected to achieve double-digit growth.
Tags: Outsourcing, Web services, Service level management, Location-based services, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Managed Security Service, IT Services, Thailand, SLA
WSJ: China bans YouTube
News Chinese officials confirm that they are blocking the Web's largest video site but haven't disclosed the reason.
Tags: Web 2.0, Iran, Google Inc., Thailand, Video, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Turkey, China, Wall Street Journal
