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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today a collaboration with Thailand-based carrier AIS to deliver the Nokia Messaging push-email service in the country. AIS is the first operator in the country to offer Nokia's push-email service that delivers users the possibility to mobilize a number of consumer emai... |
13 August 2009
06:58 GMT |
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As part of a bid to track down and protect the largest freshwater fish in the world, a team of scientists who have been part of a National Geographic expedition have captured what may be the largest fish in the world, a stingray weighing in excess of 771 pounds, although some claim that the creature could tip the sca... |
11 March 2009
03:37 GMT |
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TOT PCL, state-owned phone operator in Thailand, stated on Monday that it had plans to roll out a third-generation network in the country, which is expected to become commercially available before the end of the ongoing year. Thailand's government announced a while ago that it planned to sell 3G auctions during ... |
24 February 2009
05:16 GMT |
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iPhone nano rumors almost always hit a wall, mostly because of Apple's complete silence on the matter, as well as the questionable usability of such a device. Nevertheless, an iPhone nano is always a hot topic for gadget lovers, hence the revived rumor saying that a case manufacturer has already started producin... |
29 December 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) announced that it is planning to invest between $3-$15 million in order to build a firewall solution aimed at blocking websites with content deemed as offensive, especially the ones that denigrate the monarchy, at a national level. The firewa... |
3 November 2008
08:16 GMT |
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A videogame distributor in Thailand decided to stop selling Grand Theft Auto IV following news that a teenager confessed to copying a scene from the game as he robbed and killed a taxi driver. To my knowledge, there is no specific scene in the game that depicts the murder of a taxi driver but the confession of the mu... |
5 August 2008
02:30 GMT |
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DTAC, the second largest mobile operator in Thailand, made a deal with Nokia Siemens Network today, in order to upgrade its network in an environmental-friendly way. The Swedish-German joint venture will deploy no less than 1,500 Flexi base stations for DTAC's GSM/EDGE network, allowing the Thai operator to enha... |
16 June 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Thailand is the realm of sexual tourism, this is a well known fact. Sex for any orientation. The country is famous for its beauty contest of drag queens. And in such a sexually libertine country, some things seem to have escaped control. Thailand's Health Ministry has temporarily banned the performing of castrat... |
3 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Buddha means 'awake,' and some Buddhist monks seem to have taken the name a tad too far and literally. On Tuesday, Thai officials have asked monks to avoid using social networking sites to woo women, according to Reuters. One advocacy group found that some of the holy men, instead of sharing their enlighten... |
4 March 2008
17:06 GMT |
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The story continues as the Google online video sharing service YouTube might be banned again in Thailand after some new clips insulting the authorities were published a few days ago. The Statesman informs that the new vids, entitled 'Crisis of Siam', offended Bangkok and the government is again analyzing th... |
16 October 2007
17:06 GMT |
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YouTube is banned in Thailand. Or not. Or yes. Or not. Or... Who knows? Really now, is there anybody who can sustain for sure that YouTube is not banned in Thailand? I don't think so because this is one of the top news stories in the last five months when YouTube was banned by the Thai government then it was mad... |
21 September 2007
09:33 GMT |
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After months of unavailability, the online video sharing platform YouTube becomes available to the Thai users as the local government offered its approval. It seems like the folks working for YouTube managed to implement several filters that would be able to block the access of the Thai viewers to several clips flagg... |
31 August 2007
08:26 GMT |
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This is quite an interesting story and it seems it will continue to remain the same for a long period of time. If you don't know what I am talking about, let me present you the entire soap-opera so far: a long time ago it was reported that YouTube was banned in Thailand due to several clips published on its offi... |
26 July 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Google's video service YouTube is still blocked in Thailand as the local authorities are trying to promote a law that would move the power of restricting access to certain pages to the court. Until now, the Minister of Communications was able to block any site without an official order from the judge. Using the ... |
4 July 2007
10:50 GMT |
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It's been a while since the online video sharing service YouTube received a ban in the whole Thailand because several insulting clips were published on its official page. The Thai authorities contacted the Mountain View company and requested the removal of the videos but YouTube refused because no one of them in... |
29 June 2007
16:46 GMT |
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YouTube finally agreed to remove the offensive Thai clips posted on its page after the online video sharing service initially refused to block them. According to the YouTube employees, the clips didn't infringe any of the product's guidelines so the company refused to block them. However, the story continue... |
11 May 2007
05:57 GMT |
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The Thai government is now planning to take the search giant to the court after Google refused to remove a clip, which insults the Thai king, from YouTube. The online video sharing service was banned in the entire country on April 4 when YouTube refused to remove the clip. However, the Thai authorities contacted Goog... |
4 May 2007
08:58 GMT |
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Google Maps was recently improved with multiple locations, the parent company including fresh imagery with detailed roads, buildings and cities. However, the Mountain View-based company didn't announce the update officially, Google Earth Blog reported that high-resolution photos are now available for Russia, Tur... |
27 April 2007
06:17 GMT |
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The story was quite interesting but very similar with other YouTube events reported in the past. Recently, YouTube was entirely banned in Thailand after numerous offensive videos were published on the main page and recorded a huge number of views. Although the local authorities contacted the YouTube team and demanded... |
10 April 2007
05:14 GMT |
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YouTube, the online video sharing owned by Google, causes new headaches after it received a new ban in Thailand. According to the local authorities, the search giant refused to remove an offending clip from the page so they had nothing to do than to block the entire website."Since Google has rejected our repeated req... |
4 April 2007
10:20 GMT |
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Today it was reported that YouTube, the online video sharing owned by Google was again available in Turkey after the court ordered the largest ISP of the country to remove the ban imposed two days ago. Now, it seems like YouTube was banned in Thailand because numerous users reported they're unable to access the ... |
12 March 2007
11:24 GMT |
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