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IT Today: Size Matters:Amazon goes global with bigger, new and improved Kindle reader

Earlier this month, Amazon.com announced the official release of an international version of its popular Kindle electronic reader - the Kindle DX, now available in over 100 countries, including Thailand.
Here and elsewhere, the burgeoning popularity of electronic readers sees benefits for manufacturers and users alike.

And Amazon and other vendors, with their environmental, social and moral concerns, are also hoping to capitalise on the huge profit potential of the new technology.

Although sales are increasing for electronic readers, they haven't quite taken off as many had hoped.

Let's take a closer look at the new Kindle DX to see if it will crack the market for Amazon and also what it can bring to the readers of Thailand.

Out of the box, the unit appears like the big brother of the Kindle 2, which is basically what it is.

The monochrome screen is now 9.7-inches, (2.5 times the display area of the 6-inch Kindle 2 screen), and is roughly the same size as a paperback book, giving a noticeably more natural reading experience. The thickness (or thinness) has been kept at a wafery 1cm, about the same as the Kindle 2.

The bigger screen comes at the cost of weight, and the unit is a little heavier at about 540g (up from 290g), but can be easily managed with two hands, similar to a book or magazine.

Inside, the storage capacity of the DX has been increased to 3.3GB, or about 3,500 books, a big jump from the 1,500 storage capacity of the Kindle 2.

In terms of functionality, the navigation buttons that appear on both sides of the Kindle 2 are now only the right side of the DX, which can be a little frustrating when it comes to turning pages, especially since the unit can now be rotated 360 degrees.

Also, the tilt sensitivity has been noted for being too sensitive as it rocks the text before the unit orientates even 45 degrees from the vertical - very annoying when using the device in irregular positions, such as in bed. Luckily, this feature can be disabled in the options settings.

A central flaw of the DX is the keyboard, which is much harder to use than the impressive input options available on other portable devices such as smartphones.

The DX has been flagged as having huge potential as a textbook reader, with students being able to annotate their notes via the keyboard, but the physicality of the DX keyboard hinders this potential somewhat.

On a more positive note, the DX features PDF file compatibility, allowing users to browse business or official documents and the many books now available in this format. However, problems arise because there is no zoom function, hence some files are displayed too small to read, even when in landscape mode.

Battery life of the DX is similar to that of the Kindle 2, at an impressive three or four days use with the wireless function turned on, and over a week with it turned off, ensuring high portability.

So far, there has been no mention of any electronic text books being made available yet from Amazon, so students will have to wait.

For the home user, the Kindle DX is the best e-reader available with its impressively large viewing screen and PDF compatibility.

But it's not yet worth the 21,900 baht asking price, and although it has many benefits for the user and the environment alike, people will probably still hold onto their paper-printed novels and magazines for now.

IT News: SOFTWARE PARK MISSION : Campaign to survive and improve in 2010

Support ranges from product development to export marketing

Software Park Thailand has initiated an "IT DNA" strategy and mission which aims to create differentiation between businesses in the software industry and to support IT innovation through the nationwide Software Park Alliance.


Software Park Thailand director Suvipa Wannasatop said the park would focus this year on enabling local software companies to develop a wider variety of different products and services and to market them, in order that they can survive.


The park believes that its IT DNA mission will stimulate IT innovation under a "BEST" concept, standing for various platforms labelled Business, Empowering People and Processing, Social and Knowledge and Technologies Enabling.


On the Business platform, the park has set up various projects such as business matching, entering international markets, open-house research and development and Software Park tenants and clusters.


On the Empowering People and Processing platform, the park has developed a structured software-development process called personal software process (PSP). It is claimed the process will help software engineers to improve their performance.


The Social and Knowledge platform will feature a know-how portal to share knowledge, information and consulting. A software-process statistics repository portal will also be developed for businesses and members.


Finally, on the Technologies Enabling platform, Software Park Thailand will provide cloud computing and develop WebsiteSpark to distribute knowledge and information to businesses. It also plans to launch a virtual IT classroom in April.


Moreover, the park is also encouraging the establishment of private-sector business alliances to set up software parks in various locations, such as in the Cyber World building on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok and Korat Software City, in Nakhon Ratchasima province.


Suvipa said Software Park Thailand aimed to promote the use of locally-developed software and technology to increase productivity in the tourism, healthcare and foods industries. It will also urge businesses using locally-developed products to adopt digital marketing and Green IT, helping to create what it sees as a "win-win supply chain" and a "smart IT ecosystem".


To help local software firms to enter international markets, the park will cooperate with the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP) to support a delegation from 16 local software companies on a visit to Korea to promote their digital content and mobile applications. It will also create networking activities between Thai software companies and Korea's National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).


Suvipa said growth in Thailand's digital-content industry was crucial, especially in the areas of e-learning, animation, games, Web-based applications, computer graphics, interactive applications and visual effects.


The global digital-content industry was worth US$1,700 billion (Bt56.2 trillion) in 2009, and the United States, England, Japan and Korea are the major players in the global market, she said.

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IT Today:คาด Apple เปิดตัว'แท็ปเล็ตพีซี' 27 ม.ค. นี้

ค่าย Apple จะจัดงานพิเศษในวันที่ 27 ม.ค. ซึ่งหลายฝ่ายคาดการณ์ว่าทางบริษัทเตรียมจะเปิดตัว แท็ปเล็ตพีซี โดยจะเป็นการเปิดตลาดสินค้าตัวใหม่แกะกล่องที่เป็นที่จับตามองของแฟนๆทั่วโลกสำนักข่าวต่างประเทศรายงานเมื่อวันที่ 19 ม.ค. งานที่ Apple จะจัดขึ้นในสัปดาห์หน้านี้ นับว่าเป็นงานที่ผู้คนตั้งหน้าตั้งตาคอยมากที่สุดนับตั้งแต่ค่ายยักษ์ใหญ่เปิดตัว ไอโฟน เมื่อ 3 ปีก่อนเลยทีเดียว และแม้จะไม่มีการยืนยัน แต่หลายคนเชื่อว่านี่จะเป็นงานเปิดตัวของ "แท็ปเล็ตพีซี" หรือ คอมพิวเตอร์เคลื่อนที่ขนาดกระทัดรัดอย่างแน่นอนโดยมีข้อมูลเล็กน้อยเกี่ยวกับรูปร่างหน้าตาของ แท็ปเล็ต ใหม่นี้ว่าเหมือน ไอโฟน ที่มีขนาดใหญ่ขึ้น ซึ่งมีจอทัชสกรีนขนาด 10 นิ้ว และผู้ใช้งานสามารถทำได้ทุกอย่างทั้ง เล่นวีดีโอ, เชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ต รวมถึงเล่นเกมจากแท็ปเล็ตที่คาดว่าจะมีสนนราคาเริ่มต้นที่ 33,000 บาท.

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