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Assistant governor Kamol Takabut said the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand was ready to begin an eight-year feasibility study for nuclear power plants, as soon as it selects a consultant from the short-list of five applicants from the US, Japan and Switzerland; the study will review possible sites, environmental issues and legal and economic matters; Egat said power consumption continues to rise in Thailand by five per cent or more annually, and over-reliance on natural gas-fired plants have resulted in crippling power bills; Greenpeace members rallied on Wireless Road against nuclear power of any kind ... about 5km downwind from the Bangkok nuclear reactor. The Asean Forum on Nuclear Energy Safety met in Bangkok, because you can never have enough committees on nuclear energy.
In a shock development, US owners of intellectual property urged Thailand to outlaw the use of video cameras and phones inside cinemas because of all that movie taping that's going on.
A mere 44 years after the New York World's Fair showed off the video phone, experts predicted that millions, if not hundreds of billions of Thais would buy third-generation (3G) mobile phones because they allow users to talk to and actually see each other, and think of all the times you have been on the phone and wished, "Gee, I wish that person could see me now." No. 1 yuppiephone company Advanced Info Service said that almost hundreds of Chiang Mai folks had signed up for 3G phone service in its first month; Thitipong Khiewpaisal, president for marketing vice, said AIS had to stop advertising the service because the network does not have enough 3G-capable cells in the Rose of the North.
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| Microsoft Windows Live claims 4.25 million Thai users, up from 2.9 million in a year. |
Would-be third-generation (3G) yuppiephone subscribers got warnings from the voices of experience in Hong Kong, who were shocked to discover just how expensive getting on the Internet via phone can be; the Hong Kong Consumer Council said it had 213 official complaints in 18 months about super-sized charges of up to HK$14,000 or 60,000 baht in real money from phones downloading big data files, billed by both time and size; the consumers kvetched that the phone companies should have told them before linking them to the Net, but all had contracts stating the charges were legal.
Microsoft Windows Live claimed that it has 4.25 million Thai users, up from 2.9 million in a year; Southeast Asia marketing director Craig Law-Smith announced that the Messenger cybersex service of Windows Live had opened the new Soundzero radio service, with an amazing four separate stations, as well as games and voting.
Japanese DJ Motoman, which is a 300kg robot with arms and a snow-woman-type head, came to Bangkok for the automotive and electronics parts expo, and signed autographs; Yaskawa Electric (Thailand)'s Kampanart Tanpithaksidh said you can have "her" or one just like her for three million baht, and she will do the same job over and over for no pay, sort of like most housewives.
Well well, researchers Synovate found out all about you, and spilled the beans publicly to Microsoft Advertising - yes, you; as a Bangkok Internet user, you are more sophisticated and more extravagant than your non-connected (non-Database reading) friends, colleagues and generally lesser humans; you spend more, gorge on sheer enjoyment, buy good seats at the cinema, own a better watch and travel more to more interesting places than the unconnected; read more, watch more football, spend 40 per cent more on alcohol than your unconnected brothers and sisters; you Net-savvy dudes and dudesses give the lie to that stereotype of the computer geek: You are awesome!
Sugar exporters Thai Roong Ruang Group announced they were ready to start the country's first plant to produce ethanol from cellulose; managing director Ugrit Asadatorn said the firm will turn out 400,000 litres a year beginning this month, some of it from bagasse, a molasses by-product.
CommunicAsia and Broadcast Asia drew big crowds in Singapore, with 2,300 firms from 65 countries showing their technology stuff; the Singapore government estimated that exhibitors and attendees did $4.8 billion worth of business at the expo in just four days.
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