Google Chrome and Telstra’s mobile play
Simon Morton and I take Google Chrome for a test drive and discuss TelstraClear’s spoiler tactic in the mobile market. Audio here…
Written on September 7, 2008 | Posted in Scitech bytes
Simon Morton and I take Google Chrome for a test drive and discuss TelstraClear’s spoiler tactic in the mobile market. Audio here…
I didn’t get a chance to post these last week as I was tied up posting on another blog. Webstock Mini was a great event and credit to Natasha Hall and the others on the team who continue to put on some worthwhile internet events in Wellington.
The new Internet: All fizz and no substance?
by Peter [...]
My Herald on Sunday column about Dell’s decision to offer Ubuntu 7.04 as an alternative to Windows Vista on some models of its consumer PCs in the US. The graphic below shows three examples of open source software platforms that have achieved widespread adoption.
(Graphic: Phil Welch Herald on Sunday)
Some feedback to the piece:
From Milan:
Good on [...]
Reports are filtering out about the directions discussion took over the weekend at Kiwi Foo Camp, the gathering of geeks, creative types, entrepreneurs and politicians in Warkworth. It sounds like it was a really good event. Russell Brown, who helped organise it has a decent write-up. Juha at Geekzone also chips in as does Mauricio.
The [...]
I was sad to hear Dunedin-based software developer David Harris has called time on his formerly popular email program Pegasus Mail, which he has stopped development of and now plans to give away for free, hoping a network of volunteer developers will continue supporting and developing it.
Financial support for Pegasus has dwindled and David, who [...]
My Webwalk column in the Herald looked at the various add-ons available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. With the two major browsers now pretty much identical in functionality these add-ons will become much more important in determining which browser becomes the web surfer’s primary choice…
Also see my story about the debut of the new Treos [...]