After a long wait, the dream of turning Phuket into a paradise for software developers from around the world will come closer to reality next month, with the opening of Software Park Phuket.
Google and its partners have introduced OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for Web-based social network applications, to Thai software developers at its first "DevFest" in Southeast Asia.
To develop the plastic-electronics industry, National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) is creating R&D plastic-electronics technology and collaborating with international and domestic educational and private sectors to form a Plastic Electronics Consortium by the end of the year.
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.
Whatever happened to technology making life easier?
That's a question many of us may be tempted to ask when faced with our daily dose of e-mails, spreadsheets, attachments and all manner of other data that must be digested each morning, even before our first coffee of the day.