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Chris Barton: Chorus strikes sour note on broadband
Chorus, the newly separated part of Telecom that owns the network, is touting for business: "Chorus is interested in working with councils and local community groups to extend broadband infrastructure out into zone 4."
Zone 4 - it sounds like some kind of hell. According to Telecom's 2008 Operational Separation Undertakings, it's where some 16 per cent of our population reside - in the towns that pass in a blink when travelling State Highway 1. The hinterland, backblocks, remote, rural New Zealand.
September 11, 2008
Fingers on marketing pulse
Ads inviting viewers to text for more information are common, but the developers of a new web-based service are hoping to encourage more businesses to use mobile phones as a marketing tool.
Start-up company TXT2GET, founded by entrepreneurs Marty Verry and Peter Barrett, has had four developers working for more than a year to create an online service which allows advertisers to set up their own text-in campaigns.
September 11, 2008
Particle collider passes first major test
The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 27km tunnel yesterday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.
After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen indicating the protons had travelled the full length of the US$3.8 billion ($5.74 billion) Large Hadron Collider.
September 11, 2008
Google promises better privacy for search and Street View
BRUSSELS - Google said that it is halving the amount of time it keeps users' search details, cutting the time from 18 months to nine to meet European Union privacy demands.
Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy adviser, told reporters the change would apply to Google's sites worldwide. Google introduced an 18-month limit in 2007.
September 10, 2008
Steve Jobs defies health rumours at iPod launch
It has been the talk of the blogosphere for months. Occasional bursts of speculation even sent Apple's shares plunging.
So when Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive and genius-in-residence strolled on to a San Francisco stage yesterday, a sigh of relief went up around Silicon Valley.
September 10, 2008
Possible legal challenge to Google-Yahoo deal
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's plans to boost its profits in an online advertising partnership with rival Google could be moving into the crosshairs of the US Justice Department, which has hired an antitrust litigator to review evidence for a possible legal challenge to the deal.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the attorney is Sanford Litvack, a former vice chairman at Walt Disney and chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division during the Carter administration.
September 10, 2008
Internet acting star in fresh web project
New Zealand actress Jessica Lee Rose, two years ago hailed as the biggest star on the internet, has returned in a new project .
The former Mt Maunganui student, who developed a huge internet following as Lonelygirl15, has returned to the internet after appearing in the failed Lindsay Lohan film, I Know Who Killed Me.
September 10, 2008
Apple unveils new iPods, Jobs not dead
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes.
The iPod announcements were largely expected, and investors were less than energized, sending Apple's shares down $6.13, or 3.9 per cent, to $151.79 in afternoon trading.
September 10, 2008
Businessman convicted of hacking into old firm
A Gisborne businessman has been convicted of fraud after hacking into the computer system of the company he founded and later sold.
Blair Purcell, 48, was found guilty of accessing Gisborne Financial Services (GFS) electronic mail dishonestly, obtaining information and material with no right, obtaining another person's password, and causing the computer system to deny services to an authorised user.
September 10, 2008
Michael Dell buys $US100 million of Dell shares
DALLAS- Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc, bought about US$100 ($150.92) million of the computer maker's stock last week, his second such buying spree in the past three months.
Shares in the world's second-largest maker of personal computers are trading near their 52-week low.
September 09, 2008
Kiwi company takes flight in simulator world
A Christchurch-based company has sold its first professional flight simulator for training pilots to fly large passenger aircraft, and is optimistic many more sales will follow.
Modelled on the Boeing 737-800, the flight simulator would be deployed by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Flight Academy as part of its airline-focused pilot training programme, developer Pacific Simulators said today.
September 09, 2008
IT gets the chop as economies slow
NEW YORK - Many large companies, especially those in the financial services, utilities and telecommunications industries, have cut their technology budgets this year because of the economic slowdown.
In a report that was due to be released, Forrester Research Inc. found that 43 per cent of large US and European businesses it surveyed have cut their overall spending on technology products and services in 2008. Some companies, meanwhile, have put discretionary spending on hold and others are planning to negotiate lower rates for information-technology services.
September 09, 2008
Govt data review forces privacy re-think
After finding that 19 of 46 Government data matching programmes transferred unencrypted information, measures are now being beefed up to ensure better security.
Government agencies have stepped up IT security measures by using encryption when transferring data, following a review of the processes in February.
September 09, 2008
Microsoft plays catch up with Zune Wi-Fi
NEW YORK - Microsoft says it is updating its Zune digital media player so the product can wirelessly download and stream songs when users have access to Wi-Fi networks.
Free updates to the device's software and firmware, as well as more capacious hard drive-based and flash memory-based models, are set to be available in the US on Sept. 16.
September 09, 2008
Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old
MOUNTAIN VIEW - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an internet search engine could change the world.
It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology.
September 09, 2008
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