1 liter of (real) milk costs in good old Germany about 32 Baht. For a 800 ml liter bottle of milk I have to pay here at least 38 Baht (1 liter = 48 Baht!) and I am not shure if I get the real thing or water mixed with some milkpowder.

Expensive Doublepack: Betagen drinking yoghurt, 800ml bottle: 38 Baht. Advantageous (?) doublepack: 2 bottles à 800ml: 78 Baht!

On Saturday September 20 2008 Tesco/Lotus on Sukhumvit Road sold a 1.5 litre bottle of its Tesco Cola at 12 Baht. At its outlet on Pattaya North Road you had to pay 19.5 Baht for the same bottle. It wasn't the first time I discoverd large price differences for the same goods at the two outlets. A few days before Tesco/Lotus on North Road sold a computer table for 299 Baht, the same day the Sukhumvit outlet asked 699 baht for the very same table.

5 litres of ordinary Drinking Water costs 28 Baht at Tesco/Lotus. 6 litres of ordinary Drinking Water costs 30 Baht at BigC. At Carrefour 6 litres of Mineral Water costs 30 Baht.

With the lone exception of Apple, all of the top 10 PC brands have entered the mini-note PC market. Acer surged to the top spot, capturing more than 38% of the netbook market. Asustek Computer, which had essentially created the market in late 2007, has about 30% market share. Toshiba's Notebooks are manufactured either by Compal Electronics, Inventec or Pegatron Technology. Dell's Notebooks and Netbooks are manufactured by Compal Electronics. Sony's Notebooks are manufactured either by Quanta Computer or Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry). Notebooks from Hewlett-Packard and Apple are manufatured by Quanta Computer. All Netbooks

This camera, made by a Chinese manufacturer, is on sale at MBK Center in Bangkok for about 3'000 Baht and is labeled as Sony 8 Megapixels Digital Camera...

Most MP3 and MP4 Players on sale at MBK, Pantip Plaza and other locations, including Tukcom Pattaya, are (falsely) labeled as iPod or Sony Products... The Thai distributors buy the goods brandless from the manufacturers and are adding the false brands later in Thailand. Additional Information about Copycat Products in Pattaya

You don't need a computer to make free calls anymore. Use 3 Skypephone instead. It's a stylish mobile phone that calls, texts and takes pictures like you'd expect it to - but wait, there's more - you can also use it to call and instant message your friends, free, wherever they are in the world.

Oculon Optoelectronics introduced two tiny business liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) front projectors. Hikari Pro920, which is a basic VGA model (640x480) will be available in December 2007. Hikari Pro1440, which has a resolution of SVGA (800x600) will be available during 2008. The projectors can be used with some Smart Phones.

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