TOMORROW’S WORLD, HERALD ON SUNDAY
by Peter Griffin
A very precocious and observant teenager celebrated a birthday last Tuesday, a day before my own.
At least I’m lucky enough to have my mine fall on Anzac day, giving me a holiday as a present each year. The 17-year-old Hubble Telescope enjoys no days off, as it floats out [...]
Wellington entrepreneur Rod Drury links to some interesting comments by National Party leader Jon Key on the focus he promises to place on the issue of improving the country’s telecommunications infrastructure. The complete text of Key’s speech, in which he refers to Labour running “dial-up policies in a broadband world” is available on his website [...]
A plethora of stories in the Herald today about Freeview free-to-air digital TV which is launched on Wednesday. John Drinnan does an interesting piece about how Freeview might change the competitive landscape. John’s story suggests 30,000 people have already bought the set-top boxes that will allow them to receive satellite digital TV. I think that’s [...]
Here’s the problem for Telecom’s high value business customers: because Telecom doesn’t support the Blackberry and Symbian-based smartphones like the P900i, they’re restricted to using the Treo or Apache when it comes to phone-PDA hybrids.
That’s okay when those customers are in New Zealand, but what if they want to travel to countries without CDMA networks, [...]
As Alcatel-Lucent’s Asia-Pacific vice-president Frederic Rose visits New Zealand, the company signals May’s results announcement will disappoint and that further results may also look grim.
Rose has some interesting comments on the local regulatory scene and the future of Telecom in this interview I did with him in the Herald.
The New York Times has an interesting [...]
My column in the current Idealog magazine is about movie piracy, an unorthodox view on its remedy and the opportunities that may grow out of piracy for the New Zealand film industry…
Also, courtesy of the Motion Picture Association, some photos taken during their recent Operation Trident raids in Asia.
The launching ceremony of Stop Export Piracy [...]
Wellington playwright Gavin McGibbon’s second play, Stand Up Love premieres at Bat’s Theatre on Friday the 27th at 6.30pm. It’ll be worth a look. His first play, After Service which featured as part of the Fringe festival last year, was a real breath of fresh air for Wellington theatre.
I went to the script workshop session [...]
All eyes are on the stop-start Louis Vuitton sailing action in Valencia at the moment, but the epic Earthrace
The Kiwi effort to get around the world in 75 days or less looked shaky as the boat, which is powered by bio-diesel, was caught up in a fatal collision with a fishing boat off Guatemala, then [...]
The figures for US video game market sales for March just came through and show that Nintendo’s Wii has outsold the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 for the third month running. Sales of hardware and software are booming in the US, up 33 per cent as the new consoles on the market and the games [...]
A story of mine in the Herald about the design concepts coming out of HP Labs for the computers, tablets and personal devices of the future. Minimalism seems to be the design trend of the future for HP. Their mock-ups of future devices seem like scaled down, skimpy gadgets of the Apple variety. Everything is [...]