I’m linking to my Herald on Sunday column which is viewable to all as of writing. It’s about the move by car auction house Turners to simulcast its live auctions on the internet using audio and video feeds.
Good idea I say, though I doubt the ability of old-world players like Turners and Trade & Exchange [...]
Here’s my take in last week’s Herald Webwalk column on the US Government’s attempts to obtain information from Google about what its users are searching for.
The Government wants the information to see how easy it is to search for porn on the internet and therefore how easy it is for unsupervised children to gain access [...]
If you travel out of Wellington and up over the Rimutaka hills, then on through Masterton and on to the East Coast you come to a sweet spot on the Wairarapa Coast called Riversdale. Being an ignorant Aucklander, I’ve only just discovered the place, which has serene, sweeping beaches that gives way to gentle rolling [...]
Here’s my Herald review of the Loewe set I mentioned previously that I was reviewing. I must say I was pretty impressed but at $6000, you’d expect nothing less.
The one thing I constantly think about when I’m watching such good quality high-end LCD sets, is how they break the mystique of cinema. The Bourne Identity, [...]
It seems like a long time since I sat on the unmade bed of a teenage spammer in his dark bedroom in a middle class Auckland home in Mt. Eden, watching as he spammed hundreds of thousands of email addresses with banal adverts for something or other.
The guy was probably 18 at the time and [...]
Finally, in this satellite special, an interview I did with one of my literary heroes, Arthur C. Clarke. I’d always wanted to talk to Clarke but though the sci-fi Arthur’s age and ill-health and my position as a lowly IT reporter would preclude any contact.
Then I happened to be at some boring geekfest, I can’t [...]
A Q&A with IPStar spokesman John Humphrey.
Is IPStar looking into digital satellite radio for this part of the world?
No, not to my knowledge at least. The current IPSTAR-1 satellite is not designed for Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service (S-DARS). The service requires a dedicated number of one-way transponders usually operating in S-band (US) or L-band [...]
As excited as I am about digital satellite radio after seeing XM Radio in operation in the US, there’s little chance of a similar service being rolled out here. As my article in the Herald today explains, the local satellite players, chiefly pay-TV operator Sky and satellite wannabe Nzlsat which has been granted a slot [...]
I’m linking to my Herald on Sunday column for those with a premium content subscription. It’s about the massive Consumer Electronics Show held earlier this month in Las Vegas. I’m pretty jaded with tech shows but I wish I’d got to that one. By all accounts it was pretty impressive.
As I wrote in the paper: [...]
When you work for the newspaper as a staff writer you’ll find that overall, maybe a third of the copy you write never makes it into print. It’s either trimmed away by tight-fisted sub editors or just gets “spiked” completely because the paper fills up with something more important.
The story below was spiked on Saturday [...]