I was in the audience at Avalon last night to watch the TVNZ7 Internet debate, which was effectively the first of many political debates we’ll be subjected to in the run-up to the election.
Ostensibly, it was a good idea and the format worked well enough, though it was unfortunate that the debate only really warmed [...]
The American Chamber of Commerce “Digital Future Now” conference held in Auckland yesterday was a fairly thought provoking event.
The minister of communications and information technology, David Cunliffe, kicked proceedings off with a keynote which is available to listen to on the Science Media Centre website. It was a slightly lacklustre showing for a politician staring [...]
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 [...]
Good bag of feedback to today’s Webwalk column which was in turn based on the deluge of feedback to the last story I wrote about broadband. The horror stories keep pouring in. Microsoft’s response to Peter Gutmann’s criticisms of the DRM features of Windows Vista, is the subject of this Herald story I wrote in [...]
Posted below is my most recent Herald on Sunday column about the wireless HDMI Philips was showing off at CES earlier this month. The article didn’t appear on the Herald website - maybe something to do with the new position of my column in the paper. Hot Technology has become Tomorrow’s World and will take [...]