(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) It’s been a bit of a bumpy old ride during the past few days with the quakes that have been rattling their way around the south. In fact, it’s beginning…
Category: In the news
Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
Listen up head honchos
Trade Me’s announcement that it reduced the number of free listings available to traders has caused a bit of grumbling but is really likely to have minor impact. The new rules say you can have up to 50 items listed…
Don’t listen to them, Mr Fairfax
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Hasn’t Mrs Morgan’s little boy Sam done well for himself? The Trade Me message board has been running red hot with threads discussing the sale of New Zealand’s No 1…
Still in the slow lane but a good start
The news that Telecom is about to launch new broadband deals has had a mixed response online, with many net users taking issue with the fact that Kiwis are still in the slow lane when it comes to online speed.…
Halo 2 release for Vista machines
Microsoft has announced plans to release the Halo 2 video game for personal computers running its new Vista version of Windows. Halo 2 will run only on Vista machines and not on older versions of the Windows operating system. Microsoft…
Branded: Google hits No 1
Google it bumped Apple out of the No 1 spot in the 2005 global poll of the world’s most influential brands put together by online branding magazine Brand Channel. The survey often gives controversial results, such as when Arabic TV…
Symantec details six months of nasties
Symantec’s eighth volume of the Internet Security Threat Report, one of the most comprehensive sources of internet threat data in the world, was released this month. The semi-annual report, which covers the six-month period to the end of June, says…
Picture this
Telecom and Vodafone customers are now able to send photo and video messages and sound to each other over their mobiles between networks. Vodafone PXTT or Telecom Photo Messaging lets customers create, send and receive messages containing colour video messages,…
Desperately seeking … coffee
Do you like coffee? A computer programmer who goes by the name of Winter must really like coffee — particularly the Starbucks variety — because he’s made it his mission to visit every Starbucks in the world. All 5000-plus. According to…
Watch out for those wascally worms
Beware the latest worm threat — W32.Zotob.E can run on, but not infect, computers running Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/XP. Computers running these operating systems can be used to infect vulnerable computers. Microsoft patched the problem earlier this month but if you did get…