ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

My mobile Internet

May 31st, 2008

There are about 15 Internet Service Providers operating in Cambodia, battling for customers. As a large number of subscribers are mostly businesses and non-profits, a new major market segment would be individual and home users.
In Cambodia, a country where Internet penetration is yet low, to find any service plan right for you is both time-consuming [...]

Let’s get Firefox 3

May 30th, 2008

I’ve just pledged to get Firefox 3 during Download Day.

Thanks for pledging and joining our effort to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. Don’t forget to tell your friends, family and colleagues to pledge to download Firefox 3 during Download Day!
After Netscape Navigator was murdered in the browser [...]

Alternative

May 27th, 2008

Recently I read a column with so much interest as it gives me some idea why we human beings, as always, are able explore other way and exploit when we’re almost running out of resources.
Tetsuo Nozawa at Nikkei Electronics discusses solar power as an alternative to oil: ‘Will Solar Power Ever Replace Oil?’
I am concerned [...]

Drawing with light

May 25th, 2008

From Nikon F75 to Nikon D60 [15 years younger]…
I no longer have to spend money on film for my film SLR camera from now on as I’ve got a new Nikon DSLR D60. This new model was publicly announced by Nikon early this year, a new product update to its successful D40X, which was released [...]

New wave

May 25th, 2008

[former] Cambodian Fulbright scholar Somongkol Teng who sees himself as an amateur photographer

He who identifies himself as ‘a dreamer’ — Mean Lux

Cambodia digital citizens gathered at an event for Internet users at a newly-erected shopping mall in Phnom Penh