Thursday, July 14, 2005
In his recent visit to Thailand, Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates praises the current high level of compliance with intellectual property rights showed that the piracy rate is declining in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
During his meeting with Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Gates said: "If you go back say 15 years and look at Hong Kong and Taiwan, the amount of piracy was close to 100 per cent and now both markets have made substantial progress and the majority of business-used software is licensed." However, Gates encourages Thailand’s government to exert more effort to combat piracy and will see good results in next few years.
The purpose of Gate’s visit in Thailand is the launching of three projects with the Thai government designed to help the country take advantage of new technology trends. Under the agreements, Microsoft will invest US$3.4 million in Thailand.Net, a world-class software system based on XML, a US$1 million e-education project and another US$100,000 to kickstart an e-government project. Gates next leg Asia regional tour to Tokyo, Japan.
In other news, the long-awaited "convergence" of television and the Internet is being pushed, interestingly, by the major regional US phone companies SBC Communications and Verizon, which plan to roll out their first systems later this year in the US market. Delivering television via Internet technology would give viewers access to virtually unlimited channels and programs, because instead of "pushing" video through a cable with limited capacity, the viewer would access servers that store the content. IPTV would also make the TV set and computer interchangeable and allow consumers to schedule or record programs via other devices, such as cellphones. Globally, about 15 million households will have IPTV services by the end of 2007, up from the current level of 600,000 homes, according to a report from the consulting firm Research and Markets.
By: DocMemory
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