BANGKOK, 19 April 2014, (NNT) – The Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB) has revealed that it is working on a project to create a smartphone app that would enable consumers to make immediate complaints on their phones about vendors violating consumers’ rights. The Director of the OCPB’s Public Relations Unit, Second Lieutenant Pairoj […]
BANGKOK, 27 March 2014 (NNT) – Thai commercial banks warn of fraudulent Internet banking applications in Google Play Store and suggest users to look at the developer’s name before downloading an application. SCB Thailand posts a warning on its website about fake mobile applications which do not belong to real commercial banks. SCB says real […]
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has revealed that the number of mobile telephone subscriptions in Thailand reached 93.7 million this year. The NBTC said the number of second-generation (2G) users stands at 5.8 million and 3G and 4G users at 42.9 million. The figure is set to increase further as the number of […]
Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2014 – Samsung Electronics today announced the fifth generation of the Galaxy S series, the Galaxy S5, designed for what matters most to consumers. The new Galaxy S5 offers consumers a refined experience with innovation of essential features for day-to-day use. “With the Galaxy S5, Samsung is going back to basics […]
A man was found dead after he was apparently electrocuted while using a smartphone in his home in Rayong’s Klaeng district on Monday. Read more: Bangkok Post
The number of LINE users worldwide has already hit 300 million and LINE Corp expects to grow it to 500 million in 2014. Launched in June 2011, the leading mobile messaging platform just reported the number of users of 200 million in March. Read more: The Nation
German non-profit organization Definetz announced on Friday the development of the ‘Defikopter’: a medical drone, launched by smartphone app, designed to be able to fly defibrillators to heart attack victims in remote areas quicker than an ambulance. The Defikopter is to be launched by an app that sends out the GPS coordinates of the victim. […]
Riding on the popularity of last month’s launch of iSnap, the Nation News smart-phone application has recorded 300,000 downloads, making it one of the most popular news apps in Thailand. Part of the Nation Multimedia Group’s three national newspapers – The Nation, Kom Chad Luek and Krungthep Turakij – iSnap augments the newspaper experience by […]
