My former New Zealand Herald colleague, Peter Nowak, now firmly ensconced back in Toronto at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has just published his first book and its based on an intriguing premise. Nowak has been poring over the annals of 20th century innovation and come to the conclusion that war, porn and fast food created […]
MoreI was in Wellington bar Matterhorn this time when the XT network failed. The first I knew of it was a text message from my boss asking if my phone was able to make calls, as she had been unsuccessful in calling me from her XT handset. Sure enough, a few attempts to make calls […]
MoreIn the age of CSI-style crime dramas it is difficult to imagine a time when DNA evidence wasn’t part of any criminal investigation. But the first court case in New Zealand where DNA evidence was presented happened only as recently as 1990 and on the world stage, the first case involving DNA profiling went to […]
MoreGoogle’s corporate blog has already been the source of one jaw-dropping announcement this year – the internet giant’s promise to stop filtering results on the Google China web domain, risking its entire business in China. Now we have Google revealing plans to invest in a trial fibre-to-the-home network in the US that will reach 50,000 […]
MoreIn the days before the internet journalists the world over hoped and prayed for the day when the plain manila envelope turned up in the post crammed with sensitive documents sent by a whistleblower. When I worked on the Herald editing the tech section, such a bundle turned up one day and produced a front […]
MoreThe Herald on Sunday produces more evidence today of the perils of using your phone for email and surfing the internet while abroad. While making calls and sending text messages while abroad has become much more affordable for consumers and the charging schedules easier to understand, the same cannot be said for using mobile data […]
MoreI had a sense of deja vu today as I walked down Lambton Quay repeatedly attempting to dial a number on my Blackberry. Instead of a ringing tone, dead air was all that could be heard in my phone’s earpiece. The words “call failed” kept flashing up on the screen. A few things go through […]
MoreIn a week where Telecom was roasted by the Commerce Commission for ripping off hundreds of thousands of customers for the greater part of the last decade, its worth noting one of the few things the company does well – mobile broadband. Just before Chritmas, Telecom did something most people thought it had become incapable […]
MoreIn a fascinating post on its corporate blog, Google has threatened to pull out of the Chinese market following attempts to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and an attack on Google’s corporate network “originating from China”. Publicly anyway, Google claims to be putting its Chinese business on the line, stating that […]
MoreThe Consumer Electronic Show was a little humdrum this year, but then it also was in 2008 and 2007, the last year I attended, when the launch of the Apple iPhone at the rival MacWorld conference during the same week really took the wind out of the CES sails (and sales). In January 2007, Windows […]
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