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Prawit Leesatapornwongsa, head of the consumer protection section at the National Economic and Social Advisory Council, explained that the purpose of the government's new broadcasting and telecommunication commission is simple - censorship; the proposed law totally upends the aim of the constitution for a body to put media power in people's hands, and places it squarely in the hands of Cabinet members, who would get sole responsibility for picking the 10 commissioners from among their most toadying friends and dependent officials.
Webmaster Boonyarit Arunsap had no idea how all those feelthy pictures got on his site (http://www.nisitgirl.com), designed just for chatting; he was shocked when police raided his office on the 13th floor of your CAT Telecom building on Charoen Krung Road and found lewd pr0n on his seven computers plus the other 14 he had squirrelled away on the floor above; horrible users kept uploading unwanted photos, he explained; police explained he is entitled to free food and board while it's sorted out.
e-Cop of Singapore chose Bangkok for its Global Command Centre to sell or out-source information security; CEO Marcus Low said his goal is to make deals with governments to try to stop international hacking attacks like the one that shut down hundreds of sites in Estonia in 2007.
SuthepNet aka Thai Mobile aka The Little Network that Couldn't stood on the brink of death; with more than 0.001 per cent of yuppiephone customers, several of whom pay for their accounts, and pulled in two directions by your TOT and your CAT Telecom joint owners, optimism faded that it could ever be anything more than what it always has been - a money machine for politicians; Mun Patanotai, the ICT minister and politician, threw up his hands in despair at ever getting the pit for taxpayers' money into a professional position.
In a huge surprise, yuppiephone industry leader Advanced Info Service of Shingapore predicted "explosive" growth of use of the Internet on telephones; the prediction had nothing to do with AIS plans to begin selling proper Internet access via mobile phones using GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and Edge technology. Hui Weng Cheong, deputy president for wireless communications with Advanced Info Service of Shingapore said the company was likely to put 20 billion baht into updates to third-generation (3G) service on the 2,100MHz spectrum, covering Bangkok and other high-density population centres.
Pajchima Thanasanti, director of the Trademark Office at the Intellectual Property Department, backed a plan for Thailand to join the Madrid Protocol, where 75 countries (at present) recognise each other's trademarks - filed once, protected in many; Mrs Pajchima said she doesn't give a rip about the trademark holders, but thought that a new flood of foreigners would file with her, and increase the income of her office; last fiscal year, she said, the department got 365 million baht in filing fees, far surpassing its measly official budget of 189 million; under the proposed new system under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, that amount will rise because "foreigners [would] come to the Thai office instead of going to Singapore."
Acer Computer and Intel Microelectronics (Thailand) showed off the Acer Aspire One in four colours and one 8.9in. screen; it was featured at Commart X'Gen as the obvious alternative to the Asus Eee series that started demand for cute little PCs.
The government excitedly announced it had found an actual use for the smart cards it has been issuing for the past couple of years for no apparent reason other than boosting the income of the smart card manufacturers; Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee said he will send 300 or 400 baht or so to every poor person in the country and mark it on their smart card; it's hard to imagine anything more important that a smart card could be used for.
MD Pongsak Amatanon of IT systems provider Forth said he expects revenue to rise this year from 7.14 billion baht to 7.33 billion; no matter how bad the economy, cities still need PABX and traffic-light timing systems, and Forth expects to profit.
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