Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
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 at any one time without having to pay an extra fee. If your sales are […]
Listen up head honchos Read Post »
(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 online auction site to The Southland Times parent company Fairfax. It seems for every trader
Don’t listen to them, Mr Fairfax Read Post »
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. Even Prime Minister Helen Clark has had a dig at the price of broadband access
Still in the slow lane but a good start Read Post »
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 did not release a delivery date for the new game. An earlier version of Halo
Halo 2 release for Vista machines Read Post »
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 station al Jazeera was ranked 5th in 2004 (25th this year). In the latest poll,
Branded: Google hits No 1 Read Post »
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 malicious code that exposed confidential information represented 74 percent of the top 50 malicious code
Symantec details six months of nasties Read Post »
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, or photos with sounds and voice recordings from mobile to mobile. Vodafone expects PXT volumes
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 his website he’s already visited 4775 North American and 213 international stores. I gave up
Desperately seeking … coffee Read Post »
