For once, we get something Apple-esque at the same time as everyone else. Apple is extending its “Complete My Album” to the New Zealand iTunes store. It’s a very good idea. The problem up until now is that if you like a particular song and buy it and then take a shine to the album [...]
You must read the Microsoft memo on Wired writer Fred Vogelstein that the Redmond giant’s PR company accidentally emailed to Fred Vogelstein. Man, as a reporter, you just dream of documents like that falling into your hands. I’ve been CCed in on emails I shouldn’t have been and got some juicy tidbits in the process, [...]
My Herald story about the remastered This Is New Zealand documentary that Park Road Post did some great work on. The doco itself is an interesting document of a period in New Zealand’s history that seems , thankfully, very distant. We’ve come a long way since Hugh Macdonald picked up his three camera rig [...]
This feature of mine appeared in the Herald’s Time Out gaming special yesterday but didn’t appear on the website, so I’ve republished it here…
NEW RULES OF THE GAME…
If video gamers have stereotypically been seen as geeky, solitary figures, more engaged in virtual fantasies than the real world, the time for an image overhaul has arrived.
New [...]
A link to my Herald review of Telecom’s Ojo video telephony set-up. The verdict: good technology, but too expensive and too limiting in scope because every person you call has to have shelled out $749 for the unit and US$15 a month for a subscription.
Still, when I was in the US, I met one of [...]
Here’s a link to my review of the PS3 which is still sitting in my lounge and is indeed growing on me (even though it won’t display an image on my main TV and has to be plugged into my computer monitor). I think the glitch is to do with my AOC flatscreen TV rather [...]
My Herald story today about a clever little company called Optima, which made good use of a $500,000 Foundation of Research Science and Technology grant and its place in the Icehouse incubator to achieve exporting success.
Also, in the Dominion Post, news that Econet has officially signed its $100 million plus deal with Huawei for construction [...]
This feature about the Motion Picture Association’s battle against movie piracy in the Asia Pacific region appeared in The Business magazine sold with the New Zealand Herald but never appeared online, so here it is….
In the bustling industrial city of Shenzhen in south east China it doesn’t take long to track down pirated [...]
The Chinese have this belief in “Feng Shui”, translated as “wind and water”, where the arrangement of a room, building or even city, is planned in a way to promote harmony with the environment.
Feng Shui is as important to town planning in China as plumbing, as I found on a recent visit to Hong [...]
My Tomorrow’s World column in the Herald on Sunday looks at the Australian Labor party’s plan to contribute A$4.7 billion to building a national fibre to the node (FTTN) network if it wins the election later this year.
Similar plans have been floated before, one by Telstra, which was abandoned, and another called G9, which was [...]