UPDATE: A more in-depth Herald piece looking at the implications of Telecom’s shift in mobile strategy and my cHerald comment piece here. The Sunday Star Times business editor Tim Hunter explains the mobile roaming revenue Telecom can expect to tap into when it has a foot in the GSM/UMTS camp.
Juha’s scoop gives some interesting details [...]
Here’s the deal: New Zealand rolls out digital TV, claiming that being years behind the rest of the world in doing so means we’ll do it better, learn from the mistakes of others.
So our Freeview consortium goes and accredits only two suppliers of satellite receivers, to the outrage of set-top box importers who want their [...]
TOMORROW’S WORLD
My Herald on Sunday column (not online yet but published below)
It’s taken six years to find out, but the zookeepers at Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska finally know how the female hammerhead shark that was in their care managed to get pregnant on her own.
Scientists revealed last week that DNA profiling showed the shark’s [...]
This story I wrote for the Herald this week about problems with one of the Freeview satellite receivers sparked a big email response. Interestingly, the email isn’t really coming from consumers who are having problems with the new Zinwell set-top box. It is coming from people in the industry who actually want to sell [...]
Evan from Auctionitis sent me the following email in response to my Webwalk column about Trade Me’s lack of an API. This discussion has been going on at www.rowansimpson.com. Rowan has just left Trade Me to join on a part time basis, accounting software start-up Xero.
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It won’t come as any surprise at all that I [...]
Here’s my Weekend Herald interview with Malcolm Dick, the telecoms industry veteran who founded CallPlus. Dick is a real pioneer in the local telecoms industry. His understated style has also won him a lot of respect. He’s managed to beat Telecom over the head on many occasions without it coming across as grandstanding. That sort [...]
UPDATE: News just through that Mike Patton has canceled his Auckland gig due to an “unforeseen scheduling conflict”. What a disappointment. Tickets will be refunded but it doesn’t look like Peeping Tom are going to set a new date for a gig at a later date. That’s a great shame, I was looking forward to [...]
I’ve just started blogging for the Herald which is a great development as it gives me the chance to update the tech section with local content during the day without us having to rely totally on wire stories from the agencies. We really want to make the Herald Tech section a better resource for those [...]
A story I wrote in today’s Herald about the Computer Society’s decision not to join ICT-NZ, the body hoping to represent the IT industry. The formation of ICT-NZ has been fraught with problems and delay, but Garth Biggs, who is currently heading the organisation, says progress has been made and is likely to be launched [...]
Here’s my Webwalk column from the Herald about the lack of interest the NZ telco industry and politicians have expressed in Telecom’s alternative plan to structurally separate its business division to avoid a more complex and intrusive form of regulation.
The main sticking point with Telecom’s competitors is that the telco’s proposal falls outside the scope [...]