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Wireless HDMI = less wires in the lounge

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 [...]

Telecom’s New Year present

Surprise, surprise… Telecom has once again greeted the New Year with price increases, this time a $1.85 line rental increase for many people. The cost of calling 018 from a mobile will be bumped up to 75c per call.
Telecom has for years raised its prices early in the New Year in line with CPI increases. [...]

CES: overall thoughts

I’m in Seattle, relaxing at the airport before my flight to San Francisco then on to Auckland.
I’ve been using T-Mobile wi-fi hotspots to stay online during my time in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Seattle and I must say, I’m impressed.
Also, I just did a speedtest from Seattle to Auckland for Juha at Geekzone and [...]

Best of CES so far

I’ve covered probably 60 per cent of the stands at CES and highlights include:
LG’s stand - its large LCDs are amazing and the LG Shine is a great evolution on the Chocolate. The Blu-ray, HD-DVD combo drive is great.
Microsoft - they’ve gone all out to impress and several things do - Home Server, bringing Xbox [...]

CES: gambling on gadgets and the internet

I’m linking to my Herald on Sunday column for those with a premium content subscription. It’s about the massive Consumer Electronics Show held earlier this month in Las Vegas. I’m pretty jaded with tech shows but I wish I’d got to that one. By all accounts it was pretty impressive.
As I wrote in the paper: [...]

 

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