Microsoft Thailand is gearing up for a direct entrance to the Thai consumer market, with a plan to launch products and services to individual consumers, including xBox, Kinect, Internet services and an online marketplace. The company expects that expansion out of its existing corporate markets and into the new consumer territory will lead it to […]
Nestlé will invest more than CHF 98 million (THB 3.5 billion) in Thailand to increase manufacturing of its products including coffee and ice cream. The two year investment will support the expansion of the Company’s existing factories in Thailand, as well as the construction of a new Nestlé Quality Assurance Centre. The plans aim to […]
A suit was filed on August 24, 2011 against Netfirms, Inc., a Canadian web hosting company incorporated in the United States, for releasing personal information to the Thai government. Netfirms’ disclosures allowed Thai officials to identify, detain, and interrogate the plaintiff, Mr. Anthony Chai, both in Thailand and on U.S. soil. These disclosures, without which […]
By protecting mosquitoes from dengue fever, scientists have potentially found a way of preventing the 50 million human cases of the disease reported every year. With no specific antiviral medicines available to treat the disease, and more than two billion people living in dengue transmission zones, the breakthrough could save thousands of lives in the […]
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and head of Apple Inc., the company behind the wildly popular iPhones, iPads, and iPods, has resigned his post. In a letter dated Wednesday, Jobs told the Apple board of directors and the Apple community he could no longer meet his “duties and expectations” as the company’s chief executive officer. Jobs […]
SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) – Google Inc. will continue to invest in Southeast Asia, the fastest growing market for the U.S. Internet search and services company, a company executive said Wednesday. “Southeast Asia is coming into prominence but not much of content about the region is available on the Internet. With over 120 million people online in […]
A former Wikileaks employee has destroyed 3500 unpublished ‘leaks’ to Julian Assange’s site, and has taken the site’s encrypted system to create a spinoff project. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was Julian Assange’s former right-hand man, left Wikileaks last year after a disagreement between the pair, and has now demolished files to the Wikileaks site such as- […]
A new web technology being championed by China is allowing a short-term gap in its so-called “Great Firewall,” which blocks Chinese Internet users from sites blacklisted by the government in Beijing. Experts say how the gap is closed could have ramifications for the entire world. The gap exists because of IPv6, the next generation of […]
