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Everybody is talking about mobiles. If the trends in 2011 were anything to go by, 2012 will revolve around mobile phones and tablet computing. So making predictions and talking about what there is to look forward to is pretty easy if you just want to stick to safe topics. Of ...

I recently embarked on an overland trip through Thailand and Cambodia. Asia is a truly fascinating place with similarities to Africa. I, perhaps rather naively, had a romantic vision of escaping from the madness of my everyday life and setting off into the remote wilderness of South East Asia and ...

Thai Prime Minister, Yingluck Shintawatra is taking a break from Twitter after her account was hi-jacked by a hacker who mocked and criticised her.Authorities say they are searching for the anonymous hacker who posted eight tweets after apparently using a mobile phone to access the recently elected premier’s @PouYingluck ...

Thailand is yet to roll out full 3G services and is one of the few countries in Southeast Asia without high-speed wireless internet. In contrast to countries like Laos which have full 4G access, Thailand remains locked into sub-3G speeds thanks to competing telecoms and legal issues.Last year, a court ...

The Freedom On The Net 2011: A Global Assessment of internet and Digital Media is a study that highlights threats to internet freedom such as cyber attacks, politically-motivated censorship, and government control over internet infrastructure, but also highlights countries that are pro-internet freedom. For the report's methodology and more detail ...

A teenager involved in a car crash that killed nine people in Thailand deserves "no happiness forever", according to just one of more than 300 000 Facebook users who support a page set up to condemn her."Only your death is worthwhile for what you have done," said an angry post ...

When Thai authorities shut down his website, Sombat Boonngamanong turned to Facebook to share political views with fellow supporters of the "Red Shirt" opposition movement.A year later he has two accounts and thousands of followers on the social networking site, which has become a popular platform for political debate in ...