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Tore Johnsen. |
As of last Saturday, every business of any size that hasn't kept Internet records for 90 days is a law-breaker; "No exceptions," vowed Pol Col Yannapol Youngyuen, commander of the Bureau of Technology and Cyber Crime at the Department of Special Investigation; he wants to go through everyone's records to see if he can find out who has been putting pr0n pix on the forums; if you don't have your records ready, you'll be coughing up 500,000 baht - banks, hotels, charities and schools included.
General Motors, Ford and Honda all bragged they are stepping up production of hybrid cars; Toyota announced that by 2020 all models will have hybrid engines available. Just when you figured that new and maybe alternative-fuel advances were all the rage, General Motors announced a new investment of $445 million to build turbo-diesel engines - 15 billion baht in real money; the world's biggest car-maker reported sales had risen 10 per cent in the Asia-Pacific while stagnating or worse in the West; in China, car-makers cannot meet the demand for SUVs.
On Friday, the international conglomerate PTT will begin selling E85 fuel at one station in Bangkok; no car has yet been built in Thailand to use the fuel, which is the subject of a huge push and subsidy programme.
Somkiat Tangkitvanich. |
Microsoft looked around the Asia-Pacific region for a good country to open its first open source interoperability laboratory in the region; it found the Philippines, and signed a partnership with the Commission on Information and Communications Technology and National Computer Centre, roughly comparable to the Thai ICT ministry and Software Park, only - in the Microsoft view of things - better.
Advanced Info Service of Shingapore openly admitted it broke the 9th Christian Commandment by lusting over the 1,900MHz third-generation bandwidth held by SuthepNet, the government-owned little network that couldn't, aka Thai Mobile; AIS executives told your TOT they want some of that bandwidth and are willing to pay something or other to get it. New CEO Tore Johnsen of Dtac of Norway said his No. 2 yuppiephone firm could surpass anything No. 1 Advanced Info Service can do; with third-generation service and mobile number portability, he pledged, Dtac will be No. 1 in your lifetime.
No. 4 yuppiephone operator Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia cut its 2008 growth target from 20 to 10 per cent because of all that economic slowdown that is going on; Phanop Kasemsarn, president of vice and strategic planning, said subscriber growth from January to June was a paltry nine per cent, year on year; Hutch is pleading to be the sole marketing arm for your CAT Telecom, and even will trade the original 25-province Hutch CDMA service if the state-owned firm will pick up its debts.
No. 2 yuppiephone network Dtac of Norway and Thai GMM Grammy entertainment firm began a venture called Happyt Vampires 333 - not to provide unlimited music downloads to mobile phone customers to make money, but to counter music piracy; subscribers get to download any music from the Grammy catalogue for a mere 20 baht a month, but can't take it off their phones - at least that is the plan.
With sales of its old i-Mobile handsets eroding and with market prices falling, Samart Corp president Watchai Vilailuck recommended the country hold its collective breath for a new brand before September; it will be able to stream some TV, carry two separate SIM cards - but will cost over 10,000 baht.
In order to ensure that all community radio stations profit, research director Somkiat Tangkitvanich of the Thailand Development Research Institute suggested they establish a pool of content they all can tap into.
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