BANGKOK, Oct 14 – Toyota, Japan’s biggest automaker, announced Friday that production at its three plants in Thailand would be suspended for a further week following a parts supply shortage due to heavy flooding. Toyota Motor (Thailand)’s three plants shut down their production lines on Wednesday. The company said its plants in Samrong, Gateway and […]
The C programming language creator and co-developer of the Unix operating system Dennis Ritchie died at home on October 8 after an extended illness, at the age of 70. Former colleague Rob Pike first publicly announced the death, which Alcatel-Lucent then confirmed. Ritchie, born in Bronxville, New York on September 9, 1941, joined Bell Labs […]
Oh, RIM! It looked like things couldn’t get any worse, and then your messaging services go down for days. And right before the iPhone launch, too. BlackBerry owners will already know about it, but for the rest of you, BBM (BlackBerry Messaging) went down hard on Monday morning, and is still staggering along two days […]
BANGKOK, Oct 12 – Toyota, Japan’s biggest automaker, announced on Wednesday that production at its three plants in Thailand has temporarily halted until Oct 15 due to severe flooding which has disrupted parts supply. Toyota Motor (Thailand) senior vice president Vudhigorn Suriyachantananont said the current flooding disrupted delivery of necessary auto parts, so the company […]
BlackBerry service down again in Europe, Middle East, Africa – Research in Motion is suffering from another service outage and users are going to Twitter to vent their frustrations. Research in Motion issued a statement that BlackBerry services were “operating normally” after a service crash affected users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but […]
Millions of BlackBerry smartphone users have been cut off by a major fault at RIM, the Canadian company that makes the devices. The glitch, which struck at around 11AM, was affecting online services for consumers all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All are served by a RIM data centre in Slough. They have […]
The Information and Communications Technology Ministry of Thailand will launch up to 20,000 hotspots providing free Wi-Fi access nationwide before the end of this year. ICT Minister Gp Captain Anudith Nakornthap said recently that this was the first phase of the government’s plan to expand the ICT network across the nation and boost the Kingdom’s […]
The technology company Apple says co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old. Jobs’ death comes weeks after he resigned as chief executive of the technology giant. He will forever be known as the man who made technology easy to use for everyone, […]
