I wrote a while ago about Team One Beep, the group of University of Auckland students who had come up with an innovative way to send data out to remote areas using a sliver of FM radio spectrum. Well, late last week we heard that Team One Beep took out third place at the final […]
MoreIf you want to make any sort of statement in the world these days, and particularly if you are asking for other people’s money to help you do it, you need to have a website. But despite the rise of free website tools and hosted website platforms, to build a good website you really need […]
MoreFor a couple of years its been known as Project Natal – Microsoft’s bid to do away with the game controller and usher in an era of more naturalistic video game playing. A few hours ago on the eve of the the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles, Project Natal received its official debut […]
MoreTake a look at the mobile phone you own – does it have a camera on the front of it? If it does, chances are that its capable of making video calls. That’s right, another feature they stamped all over the box that you never actually use – and for good reason. To date, video […]
MoreI happened to be in Australia on Friday as the Apple iPad went on sale there, predictably attracting shoppers who queued through the night at the George St Apple store in Sydney. Adelaide, where I was, doesn’t have an official Apple store, but the iPads on offer were long gone by the time I got […]
MoreI was shocked and saddened to learn this morning (via Twitter) that internet commentator and developer and relentless advocate of open access to information Paul Reynolds died on Sunday of leukaemia. No one, not even Paul it seems knew he was ill. Eloquent tributes are flowing around the web dispersed via social networks, something Paul […]
MoreLooking forward to the type of uncapped data plans broadband users in Asia, the US and Europe enjoy? Think again. Prospects for such flat-rate pricing for broadband took a giant leap backwards this week with Telecom’s decision to can its $69.95 per month Big Time plan. I just received this email from Telecom spokeslady Emma […]
MoreThe nine-page independent report into the chronic failures of Telecom’s XT mobile phone network should be slotted into the text book issued to aspiring radio engineers and network architects. It serves as an important lesson in now lot to undertake a major national engineering project. The report by UK-based analyst group, Analysys Mason, gets to […]
MoreA few weeks back I wrote about a team of University of Auckland engineers who had come up with a seemingly novel and low cost way to get educational information out to villages in poor outlying areas. Team One Beep was competing as part of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where teams of university students compete […]
MoreThe newest weapon in the consumer electronics industry’s arsenal aimed at separating you from your hard earned dollars is 3DTV and this weekend sees retailers the length of the country featuring 3DTV sets in store. If the shoppers huddled in front of the Samsung 55 inch LED 3DTV at JB Hi-Fi in Auckland’s Westgate shopping […]
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