Samsung has launched the new PS-50A550S1R Plasma TV Full High Definition 50" (Series 5) that takes TV viewing a step further and, not to forget, at a good value for money.
To step up the country to become a new digital city, the government of Laos is planning to invest US$35 millions of budget to digitise the country by developing ICT infrastructure to allow Laos people to get access to any electronic government services by next year.
To promote and support Thai people and organizations to use local software in order to improve their productivity and information technology literacy skill, Software Park Thailand cooperate with nine local software companies create Software for Society project provide software free of charge to 80 schools, nongovernment organization, healthcare local hospital, local healthcare as well as municipal government, and government sectors, totally worth Bt27 million.
To promote development and innovation in Thai IT businesses, National Innovation Agency (NIA) has awarded National Innovation Awards 2008 to seven out of 407 projects.
Research and development in Thailand will no longer be an isolated function. The Technology Manage-ment Centre (TMC) has partnered with the Thammasat University to conduct a Lab2Market project with an aim to reduce the gap between researchers and businesses.
The former agro engineer Chokchai Leangsuksun is now a high-performance computing (HPC) specialist working as a Computer Science professor and a director of the Extreme Computing Research Group at the Louisiana Tech University .