Blog Archives for the tag Thailand

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Thailand Inks $32.8 Million Deal for One-Tablet-Per-Child Initiative

Thailand looks set to proceed with the widest educational tablet deployment to date, after the country’s government finally signed an initial $32.8 million (1.02 billion THB) contract for a project…

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RIM Targets Low Budgets in Asia with New $215 BlackBerry

Research In Motion (RIM) is adopting a ‘back to basics’ approach with its latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Curve 9220, which launched in India today ahead of a phased rollout across…

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RIM to Increase BlackBerry Sales Points in SE Asia

RIM is looking to build on its popularity in key markets in Southeast Asia by massively increasing its sales presence in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, according to a Bloomberg report….

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Groupon Finally Launches in Thailand

After months of speculation and quiet hiring, Groupon has finally launched its business in Thailand today, making the country the 47th overseas market that the Chicago-headquartered company is active in….

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China Agrees Deal on Tablets for Thai Schools

The government of Thailand has agreed to a deal with China that will see it import 860,000 tablet computers for its one-tablet-per-child scheme, a project to provide a device to…

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Groupon Thailand's Website Goes Live Ahead of Launch

Groupon has finally provided irrefutable evidence of its impending arrival in Thailand with the launch of a website for the service in the country. Thai technology blog ThumbsUp spotted that…

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Disk Storage Market Has Its Worst Days Ahead

The horrific Thailand floods started in July 2011 and along with many unfortunate deaths and destruction, they have also caused major disruption to many exports that the rest of the…

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Android expected to surge in Thailand

According to True Corp assistant to the president and CEO, Papon Ratanachaikanont, Thailand had the largest amount of iPhones shipped to any country in Southeast Asia in December last year….

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ZTE petitions to stop 3G auction in TH

With the emergence of new Internet technologies such as 4G and LTE, most of us might find it surprising that there are still countries that doesn’t have 3G. Sadly, Thailand…

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Rakuten opens in Indonesia

Japanese e-commerce giant, Rakuten has launched the first stage of its e-commerce joint venture with Indonesia’s Global Mediacom. The companies intend to launch their online shopping mall in Indonesia 2011….

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Thai chatroom shutdown after suicide

A webcam chat-room in Thailand has been shut down after a 24 year old woman broadcast her suicide on the service. The woman hanged herself in front of a webcam broadcasting on…