It has to go down as one of the more bizarre and worrying tech glitches of the year, and I’m still yet to read a good explanation of what went wrong with Slingshot’s caching configuration that allowed customers to see into the Trademe and email accounts of fellow customers.
Stuff reader David makes a very good [...]
My Thiswayup conversation with Simon Morton today was on Google Streetview, which this week came to Australia and not without some low-level controversy. Japan went live with Streetview as well. Most of the faces I’ve seen (and there are generally a lot to be seen on Japanese streets) are blurred, but many aren’t. It seems [...]
One of the highlights of my year was a visit in September to Silicon Valley, which was basically a drunked tour of Napa Valley with side trips to Apple, Google, Craigslist thrown in. It all culminated in the Pole Blacks Segwway Polo match against the Silicon Valley After Shocks. Unfortunately we came out of that [...]
Griffin’s Gadgets has been quiet for an unacceptably long period of time by blogging standards - over a month! I’ve nevertheless been busy on some creative projects, at least one of which will hopefully bear fruit in the coming months. In the meantime here’s a wrap of some of the stuff I’ve been writing in [...]
So, were Google’s mega-rich bosses holidaying in New Zealand or do the world’s wealthy just make a habit of lending each other their private jets? Whatever the case, they didn’t appear to visit Eurekster in Christchurch.
The year appears to have got off to a good start for NZ tech companies if the latest reports ring [...]
My Herald on Sunday column dealt with the very good free software Google Writely. I haven’t started doing the bulk of my word processing in Writely but what I am doing is transferring the file from Word to Writely so I can convert it into a smart looking PDF file. I’m also going to start [...]
Here’s my take in last week’s Herald Webwalk column on the US Government’s attempts to obtain information from Google about what its users are searching for.
The Government wants the information to see how easy it is to search for porn on the internet and therefore how easy it is for unsupervised children to gain access [...]
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: [...]
Looking over my Webwalk columns for the year I noticed I devoted a lot of time to a: talking about Google, which I think is the world’s most innovative internet company and b: internet services which are free to use yet incredibly useful.
My column in today’s Herald outlined my favourite free services which were either [...]