Google has set the agenda on the eve of the CES tech show in Vegas with the launch this morning in San Francisco of its Nexus One Google-made smartphone. Here are the main specs, courtesy of Information Week: The Nexus One runs Android 2.1 — available as open source in the next few days — […]
MoreThe Sunday Star Times has compiled a table (see below) of university degrees and what graduates from these degrees can expect to earn after a year and three years in the workforce respectively. Not surprisingly, science, health and engineering graduates have much better earning potential than those working in tourism, architecture, agriculture, sports, creative arts and […]
MoreIt’s been a tragic end to the year for the profession of journalism with a fledgling reporter and a seasoned journo dying in unusual accidents. Helen Bain (38), the former Dominion Post reporter and Sunday Star Times political editor has been revealed as the woman who drowned when she fell from her horse attempting to […]
MoreMy tech discussion with Simon Morton and Rowan Quinn on Summer Report this morning centred on the increasingly convincing rumours circulating about the looming arrival of a tablet computing device created by Silicon Valley giant Apple. MacRumours, Wired and Tech Crunch are all reporting that Apple registered the islate.com web domain back in 2006 and […]
MoreSeveral of our Scibloggers will be featuring over the next few weeks on Radio New Zealand’s summer programmes talking science. Dr Fabiana Kubke kicked off today with a discussion on Summer of Noelle about tuis and her citizen science project. I’ll update this post throughout the holidays with links to the audio as more Scibloggers […]
MoreThe Sunday Star Times yesterday published a list of the top ten best-selling non-fiction books of 2009 in New Zealand (see below). It is a woeful list by any measure. Crockpots dominated. The only thing we have to be thankful for was that crackpots like Ian Wishart were absent from it. In previous years, decent […]
MoreThe Government has just released a cabinet paper outlining proposed amendments to the Copyright Act to battle widespread illegal downloading of copyrighted material. Many will remember the backlash earlier in the year when the infamous section 92a proposal was nearly passed into law. It would have allowed internet providers to disconnect those suspected of illegally […]
MoreThousands of Telecom customers are without mobile service today due to a major outage on the new XT network affecting service from Taupo south. UPDATE: Chris Keall at the NBR has an update and some interesting info on cause of the outage, which has now stretched in length to over six hours. My Blackberry, strangely […]
MoreI thought I’d wait a couple of weeks before posting the final part of my TIVO review and I’m glad I did as the extended period of use has thrown up some interesting developments. CASPA gathers steam Early in December, TIVO improved the range of on-demand content available for download via the CASPA service available […]
MoreIt’s been a bit of a paranoid time for me, helped in no small part by the deviousness of PC World columnist Geoff Palmer, who used me and my colleague Aimee Whitcroft as guinea pigs in a phone number spoofing demonstration. Geoff had flagged with us we might receive some unusual text messages, but the […]
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