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Movies via Xbox and WiMax in Wellington

A couple more stories of mine from the Herald last week. No word yet on the availability of TV and movie content via Xbox Live for New Zealand customers but I’d be very wary before pressing “download” when it does arrive. That’s because it may blow your monthly data cap out of the water in [...]

Apple to finally go direct in NZ?

There was much excite generated at Publicaddress.net last week when Russell Brown suggested Apple had reclaimed its New Zealand domain from Apple distributor Renaissance as a preparatory move to dumping Renaissance in favour of setting up a direct presence in New Zealand. From the emphatic response I received from Renaissance boss Paul Johnston, I think [...]

All gamed out

The video games are arriving thick and past as the Christmas release schedule starts to kick in. Below are some of my truncated reviews from the Herald of some of the recent big titles. I’m still hooked on Flight Simulator x, which I suspect will run slightly better when I upgrade to 1GB of RAM. [...]

God is dead … actually he never lived

Or so Richard Dawkins would have us believe. I just picked up his new book The God Delusion and only 40 pages in, I’m already feeling better about my slide towards atheism. I was brought up a devout Catholic in Dublin for the first years of my life and went to a Catholic school. After [...]

Browsers and BlackBerrys

My Webwalk column in the Herald looked at the various add-ons available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. With the two major browsers now pretty much identical in functionality these add-ons will become much more important in determining which browser becomes the web surfer’s primary choice…
Also see my story about the debut of the new Treos [...]

 

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