I grew up in the Midwest and therefore far away from any earthquake fault lines. Now that I’m spending some time in Thailand, I experienced my first earthquake a few weeks ago. Fortunately it wasn’t nearly as devastating as the quakes that have rocked Japan over the past few months but it was jarring enough
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The WoPhone OS is a Chinese-government backed operating system for smartphones and tablet devices that is said to be ready to go head-to-head with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS.
Does your wireless telephone carrier use GSM? I use T-Mobile in the USA and AIS 12Call while in Thailand. Both of these cellular providers use the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) stardard. In fact, GSM is the most widely used wireless standard in the world.
Do you hate having to take your gloves off to use your iPhone? I do too. That’s why I was happy to see some new advancements in touchscreen technology.
When you think technology, you might not think of Cambodia. But this might very well change in the future. I had the opportunity to visit several cities within Cambodia last week. Being a network engineer and interested in technology advancements in emerging countries, I decided to spend some time investigating the current economic and technological
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I have tested and confirmed that Thailand’s AIS 12Call data plan can be used to tether your iPhone to your laptop so you can surf the web using the phones data minutes. If you need to know how to purchase 12Call data plans in Thailand, please read this article.
Are you planning to visit Thailand for either business or pleasure in 2010? If so, you will probably want to stay connected to people at home. AIS is Thailand’s largest cellular phone provider and their 12Call prepaid SIM cards are widely popular with both local Thai’s and tourists. But those traveling to Thailand might find
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I am currently doing extended travel throughout Asia and have been calling Northern Thailand my home for almost a year now. During my travels, I have been adding, removing and tinkering with various iPhone apps that are useful to me while I am abroad. Some of them have been great while others a complete letdown.Â
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Coming back to the topic of retro addresses, I recently received an email from a relative that had a @aol.com account. At first I laughed because honestly, I haven’t seen this domain name in quite a while. But my second thought was, “hey, that’s actually pretty cool”.
Based on these tests, if I were to choose a DSL provider, I would go with 3BB for the far superior download test. If I really relied on frequent uploads, I would choose the TOT DSL connection. Lastly, if I needed a mobile Internet solution, I would have to go with AIS’s Edge…although 3BB’s upload speeds were fairly close and seem to burst at higher speeds.
When I first came to Thailand, one thing I had to really get used to is the lack of reading paper books. There are many bookstores but few have a large selection of English print titles. Back home in the States, I had a fairly large library of technical books…mostly Cisco Press and Sybex books on networking. My fiction reading was mostly quenched by going to a Barnes & Noble or Boarders book store…or to the Chicago Public library off of State and Congress when I lived there.
Now I have just a handful of paper books and the bookstores/libraries here are limited as to any English language books. Fortunately, we live in a digital media age where most books can be found online either for free, for a fee per-book or through a book club membership where you can “checkout” virtual books for a monthly fee.
In my last post, I talked about my wireless provider in Thailand, AIS. AIS has a very good blanket of 2G Edge across the country…and even over the boarder into Burma, Laos and Cambodia from my experience. I’ve used the data plan for checking email and light browsing. I also have used it to upload
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Then I dialed *139# to check how many hours/minutes I had left on my phone and was surprised that after beginning the program, I used up nearly all of my time.
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