UPDATE: I’ve heard from Georgie at TIVO about using a TIVO box if you’re NOT a Telecom broadband subscriber – it IS possible – see section “True video on demand” for details. While TIVO’s arrival on the New Zealand market should be wholeheartedly welcomed, MySky’s entrenched presence in the market has really stolen the thunder […]
MoreIn a 3-part series I’ll be reviewing the TIVO digital recorder and video on demand service launched last week by TVNZ and Telecom. This post deals with the TIVO installation and set-up. DVR war declared (finally) So finally, a decade after time-shifting TV, ad-skipping and digital storage of TV programmes came to American homes via […]
MoreEach new movie that comes out from Peter Jackson’s visual effects workshop Weta Digital seems to showcase some breathtaking new effect that pushes out the boundaries of what can be achieved with visual effects. With the Lord of the Rings films, it was the particularly clever use of motion capture to create the eerily realistic […]
MoreThe 2009 Deloitte Fast 50 list of the fastest growing companies in the country shows high-growth start-ups aren’t just confined to the tech sector. Only 18 of the top 50 this year can be described as IT or telecoms players. The top spot went to a honey producer. According to Deloitte, the Fast 50 companies […]
MoreWell, its now illegal to make a call on your mobile phone while driving, unless that is, you make use of a hands-free kit. And as the Sunday Star Times points out, there’ll be no getting away with schemes like fixing a phone to your head with an elastic band or wedging your mobile down […]
MoreThe long-awaited final report of the 10 year-long, 20 million pound Interphone study into whether mobile phone use can cause brain cancer is set to be published before the end of the year, according to reports from the UK over the weekend. The results are expected to cause some concern for the mobile industry and […]
MoreIt’s perhaps a virtue of Windows 7 that you soon forget you are working in the environment of Microsoft’s newest operating system and just get on with the computing tasks at hand. If you’re upgrading from Vista, the changes can probably best be described as cleverly subtle. There’s nothing radical here – no game-changing technologies […]
MoreI’ve spent a couple of weeks experimenting with Google Wave – Google’s new real-time communication tool, but am yet to be convinced that for the majority of users it will prove a more useful communication suite than the compelling combination of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat and Google Talk. What is Wave? It is part […]
MoreA couple of excellent uses of data visualisation software have popped up in the media over the last few days and best of all, both display kiwi innovation at work. Nextspace, the Auckland-based cluster of 3D graphics companies, says it is building a “Visual City” platform for Auckland which would display visually on a 3D […]
MoreMy This Way Up slot with Simon Morton this week looks at online back-up options for people who want to protect themselves against losing their precious digital content. The list of services we looked at was by no means exhaustive, but some leading players in the online storage space have emerged in the last couple […]
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