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Hi

In Pantip, a few shops are selling the iRobot tablets (as described on hiapad.com), list price is 5900 Baht, but discount is applied, if you ask.

I was wondering if there is a better place in Bangkok to find more tablets (Eken, Wits A81e, Moonse APad...).

Also if you have bought some online, where did you purchase them,

and how did it go with the customs and the import tax?

You might want to look at a previous thread

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Reach-Linux-...gk-t284581.html

Also you can look at blognone

http://www.blognone.com/jobs

To what end?

A little more info might work - there are a lot of very talented people out there

Hi

my company is hiring linux specialists in Thailand, and would like to reach them.

What would be the best medium ? any mailing list ? forums ? dedicated jobs board ? magazines ? conferences ?

thanks

Does 15,000baht for an 80GB model sound reasonable?

Gcorners ( http:// gcorners.com/Products/ps3/ps3-index.html ) has the Singapore model 80GB for 13,900 Baht

Their shop is easily accessible from Victory Monument BTS . The shop owner speaks english.

Also there are way to get not so expensive itunes cards for example $50 for $200. but i wont post how as i am not sure of the legality of those cards but they do work (Apparently!) from china...

Are you referring to this recent news: iTunes Gift Card Key System Cracked, Exploited ( apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/10/2116219 ) ?

Today in the news:

Amazon invoked the DMCA to force removal of a python script and instructions from the mobileread web site. The script is used to identify the Kindle's internal ID number, which can be used to enable non-Amazon purchased books to work on the Kindle.

source: yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/12/1846224 (this has a lot of interesting links in the comments)

Jinke, manufacturer of ebooks, allows orders from Thailand:

see www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/English/embedpro/howtobuy.asp

Current model is Hanlin v3: www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/English/embedpro/index.asp

While most e-book formats are supported by the Hanlin (including recently mobipocket),

it won't be able to read Kindle ebooks (unless they have no DRM, in that case it is a mobipocket format).

There is no way to know before buying if an ebook has DRM or not. As far as I know, there is no easy way to remove the DRM.

Plus as of now, you have to be owner of a real Kindle 1/2 to be able to buy Kindle books on amazon.com (this might change with the release of the iPhone Kindle application). And the limitation of sales to owners of a US Credit card with a billing address in the US will still be enforced.

There is a dedicated Forum about the Hanlin: www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=101 (the same forum has a Kindle section too)

and a technical description, with some photos, wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/HanLin_eBook

But none of these sellers is shipping out of US

They allow you to download the files (112 MB for the OSX version)

and once you have it, you can buy the serial numbers.

which is possible, even from Thailand, as no shipping is involved.

Ever heard of search engine?

You can buy it online:

www.pangeasoft.net/nano2/buy.html for the OSX version

www.ifd.com/ for the PC version

You have a few open source solutions you might want to look at:

Source KM World: WCM Market Overview 2008

Open source options started to flourish in 2007 and will undoubtedly become more prominent in 2008. Alfresco continued to grow, and Nuxeo finally gained better exposure into larger deals and is emerging as a serious competitor to Alfresco (at least in Europe). Knowledge Tree from South Africa recorded hundreds of thousands of downloads of its open source option, and we finally got ECM in a box, courtesy of InfoGrid Pacific. Although selling at the moment in developing nations, this open source, rack-mount appliance appears to be receiving a welcome response and offers a new model to the market.

FYI, Alfresco and Nuxeo are Java based, InfoGrid is Django (python) based.

Regarding Alfresco, which is nice overall, there was a recent discussion on Slashdot (Can You Be Denied the Right To Support OSS? (22/11/2008)) which explained that Alfresco's consulting partners are not allowed to do projects based on Alfresco's GPL edition because their partnership contract denied them the right to do so. They only can support Alfresco's enterprise edition. You can find "non certified" partners to help you with Alfresco GPL though.