Kodak last week introduced a retail photo printing solution intended to revitalise its Kodak Express shops and which serves as "a kick-off to the new digital Kodak" - completing a four-year transition in which it restructured from an analogue film company to become a digital company.
HARD DISK DRIVES
Flash drives keep gaining in popularity, but hard disk drive sales are growing rapidly at a rate of 30 per cent per year, according to Western Digital (WD), which claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of external HDDs.
MINI-NOTEBOOKS
HP last week introduced its first mini-notebook PC here, the HP 2133 Mini-Note, a full-function machine that integrates 802.11a/b/g or b/g WLAN1 connectivity and which is designed specifically for mobile youths and business professionals. The unit has a starting weight of just 1.19kg and features an 8.9in display and a large keyboard to maximise productivity for individuals on-the-go.
At Bumrungrad International Hospital the first pharmacy robot in Asia is able to ensure patients 100 per cent safety while dispensing drugs, thanks to an automated drug management system.
APPLICATION HOSTING
Application Hosting Services (A-Host) and Oracle Thailand last week launched an Oracle Solution Centre to address the needs of ISV partners and customers in Thailand in deploying comprehensive Oracle infrastructure technology and solutions.
TRENDS
Intel recently outlined the technology trends that will boost the company's and its channel partners' business opportunities.
MOBILE COMPUTING
Today consumers have more choices when buying a computer with the new Netbook form factor hitting the market with prices ranging from 10,000 baht to over 30,000 baht.
NOTEBOOK PCS
Acer Computer, the market leader in PC notebooks here, has introduced the Aspire Gemstone Blue, a large-screen entertainment-oriented series of notebook PCs with Blu-ray HD drives.
EXTENSIONS
One of the strengths of Macs is graphics. A wide range of programs is available for OS X installations, over and above what users commonly consider.
COMPUTER CURRENTS
Is it time to dump Windows and move to Linux?
EVENTS : JCSSE 2008 will be held on May 8 and 9 at the Felix River Kwai Resort, Kanchanaburi.
HOME BUILDER
We have spent a lot of time over the past weeks talking about Web 2.0 concepts and technologies. It is time to pause for a moment and consider where the industry is now as far as this subject is concerned.
LAW BYTES
The new US baseball season is in full swing, yet in recent months the phrase "three strikes and you're out" has taken on an entirely different meaning on the Internet. Prodded by content lobby groups, a handful of governments have moved toward requiring Internet service providers to terminate subscribers if they engage in file sharing activities on three occasions.
SLOAN RANGER
I was literally a day away from writing a positive review of a good email archiving system when a kind Database reader (but I repeat myself) sent me a suggestion of a different program.
BETWEEN THE LINES
A while back Mark Cuban, tech entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, blogged about his two favourite technology magazines - one was about the broadband marketplace (http://www.screenplaysmag.com) while the other was the title Communications Technology (http://www.cable360.net/ct). The thing I like most about this blog entry was that I'd never heard of either site, and given that the recommendation came from Cuban, who blogs at http://www.blogmaverick.com, and is himself a compelling read, I (rightly) figured they'd be worth adding to my reading list.
It is very fashionable to rubbish Microsoft, Windows and Vista. In fact, Microsoft has some great software, almost none of it greater than the very free PowerToys, including TweakUI, the ClearType Tuner and the brilliant Image Resizer. There are many others; when you have 10 minutes free at your PC check them out at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp.
HELP DESK
I trust you are well. Thanks for the weekly Database, which I enjoy, even though I am a self confessed dummy in this field, as the following will probably demonstrate.
HOME REVIEW
The Basic Education Commission said it has set aside 12.2 billion baht to buy 300,000 computers for the schools of Ban Nok, raising two questions: The BEC has 12.2 billion baht it can just set aside?; and, at 40,666 baht per computer for a mass purchase, shouldn't Sukavich Rangsitpol be brought in as adviser? BEC Secretary-General Khunying Kasama Vorawan explained that the purchases over the next three years will raise the ratio of students to classroom computers nationwide from 46-to-one at present to 20-to-one.
WORLD REVIEW
Live Mesh was unveiled at the single biggest, most exciting and important Web 2.0 conference since the end of the entire Mesozoic era - well, self-important anyhow; it took place at San Francisco, which is so important that Barack Obama picked it to trash the middle class just a week earlier; eventually, until Web 3.0 tramples it underfoot like a WordStar document, Web 2.0 will allow owners of several/many devices to synchronise their (admittedly very short) cybersex-partner lists and newsfeeds; CNet News claimed the biggest news from Web 2.0 Expo was that no one could rationally explain what Web 2.0 is or means.
If you can't wait for Kodak Express outlets here to offer the new services referred to in our front page story once they deploy the new APEX equipment - and if you want an animated video made of a collection of still photographs - then head on over to animoto.com.
APP SHOT
Note Mania is both the smallest and most useable ''sticky note'' program I have found _ and I have tested quite a few of them in the last year or so.
