After nearly eight fantastic years on the New Zealand Herald covering the technology beat, I’m leaving to set up an exciting new project — the Science Media Centre.
I’ll still do the odd media gig — a radio slot here and there, a column from time to time, but for me the next couple of years [...]
I have a very schizophrenic relationship with the national lottery which we all know better as Lotto.
I buy the occasional ticket but more often than not, staggering out of the supermarket weighed down with plastic bags, I can’t be bothered queuing at the Lotto desk and simply flag the weekly gamble. That’s not a great [...]
The fruits of more than $65 million of investment in digital TV production will be on show for viewers from early July, when pay TV operator Sky launches its new high-definition satellite service and a successor to the MySky digital recorder.
Sky will broadcast Sky Sport 1 and Sky Sport 2, Sky Movies and Sky Movies [...]
Anyone with a Playstation 3 console will know that it also makes a fairly good media server for the lounge. Not only does it play games and Blu-ray movies, but stores your videos, music and photos and connects wirelessly to laptops running Windows Media Player to stream the media files stored [...]
If there really ever was any support for the notion that British artist Paul St. George was using a long-lost Victorian tunnel beneath the Atlantic to allow modern-day Londoners and New Yorkers to communicate with each other, it should have been snuffed when St. George’s sponsor, Tiscali, was named.
Tiscali, of course, is a major telecoms [...]
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