(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 […]
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The internet is set to become more mobile and more personal with upcoming developments from technology company Intel. The innovations were announced at the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week. Launched in 1997, the forum is a growing gathering of developers and technology experts that aims to help key players stay on
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) With news of the latest Trade Me auction scam breaking this week, it might be a good time to take a fresh look at online safety. On Monday, our Queenstown-based reporter Lin Ferguson reported on a now-banned Trade Me member who sold non-existent laptops and
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Microsoft and Motorola have joined forces to make a music handset to compete against a similar phone, also made by Motorola, that supports Apple’s iTunes music platform. The phone will support Microsoft’s copyright protection software, as well as its Windows media platform. Motorola’s Apple-supported ROKR and SLVR phones are available in the United States and
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
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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
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The news that Yahoo and AOL plan to charge a fee for guaranteed delivery of e-mails could be the answer to my prayers. I am pretty sure I’m not alone when I say that my inbox is at present being swamped by an increasingly bizarre array of spam. I’ve been getting offers for herbal Viagra,
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It should come as no surprise to anyone that the No 1 search on online auction site Trade Me last month was U2, knocking Apple’s iPod into the No 2 spot. The other big news from Trade Me is that dragon_games has become the site’s first trader to reach the 10,000 individual feedback mark. That’s
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