New Zealand Geek - news page 58Geek - a peculiar or otherwise odd person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.
Technology company shows US face but still Kiwi at heartShaun Ryan prefers not to play the Kiwi card when signing up clients in the United States. It is not necessarily a selling point for his internet search company SLI Systems, he says.
But, run out of Christchurch and employing 40 staff, the company is exceptionally Kiwi. Chief executive Shaun Ryan and his brother Grant are the sons of a chicken plucker from Invercargill.
June 30, 2008
Plus SMS founder issues writ to firm for damagesMobile phone technology company Plus SMS Holdings is being taken to court by its founder Garry Donoghue.
Donoghue and chairman Jim Bracknell resigned in September 2006 amid a scandal of incorrect business statements and the launch of an ongoing inquiry by the Securities Commission.
June 30, 2008
New web lets people complain on neighboursOHIO - Just outside his bedroom window, beyond the chain-link fence that surrounds his next-door neighbour's yard, sit the reasons David Adams says he can't sleep: two bushy-tailed dogs that bark and howl all night.
The Magnolia, Mississippi, resident plugged up his ears and even took his neighbour to court alleging a noise violation. But the barking went on. Finally he discovered a website seemingly tailor-made for such suburban woes: www.RottenNeighbor.com.
June 28, 2008
Facebook cracks down on users' grammarNEW YORK - The online website Facebook is getting more serious about grammar. No more will users see jarringly incorrect declarations such as "Debbie changed their profile picture."
Users who haven't specified their gender in their Facebook profiles will be asked to do so in the coming weeks. That way, Facebook doesn't have to default to "their" or the made-up word "themself," as it had been doing.
June 28, 2008
Wellywood technology helps children to walkAnimation technology used in blockbuster movies such as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings is now helping children to walk.
The Gait Laboratory at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane uses animation technology developed at Weta Digital in Wellington to see why some children, as young as 3, have trouble walking.
June 28, 2008
Eyes have it in wearable technologyRolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for "wearable" gadgets.
In one version, sensors and chips inside headphones detect electrical current produced by movements of the wearer's eyeballs, says Masaaki Fukumoto, executive research engineer at NTT DoCoMo.
June 28, 2008
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June 27, 2008
Microsoft rolls out VMware rival earlyBOSTON - Microsoft has started selling its new server virtualisation software about six weeks ahead of schedule, putting pressure on market leader VMware.
Server virtualisation software allows one machine to perform the work of multiple servers, letting companies save money on equipment, electricity, maintenance and other costs.
June 27, 2008
Intel not keen on full Vista rolloutSAN FRANCISCO - Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker and decades-long business partner of Microsoft, has no immediate plans to roll out the software giant's Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
"We're in a refresh cycle now and there are a number of factors considered before we select software," an Intel spokesman explained without elaborating.
June 27, 2008
Yahoo shakes up its pecking orderSAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo is setting up a new chain of command in hopes of restoring order amid the turmoil triggered by the embattled internet pioneer's snub of Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid.
Under the new pecking order announced Thursday, Yahoo executive vice presidents Hilary Schneider and Ash Patel are being given expanded responsibilities over the Sunnyvale-based company's products and sales teams.
June 27, 2008
Fiji gets grumpy with Microsoft over nameFiji's military government has written to the software giant Microsoft demanding the company not use their country name in any of its products.
Fiji's interim attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum today released a letter sent to Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates yesterday, after media reports the software company may call its yet-to-be-released software "Windows Fiji".
June 27, 2008
Anthony Doesburg: Mr Gates is (finally) leaving the buildingFrom next week, the man who built Microsoft into the world's biggest software company, making himself the richest person on the planet in the process (for a time at least), will start dedicating himself to giving his money away.
That means handing Gates' responsibilities to two executives: Craig Mundie, who takes charge of advanced strategy and policy; and Ray Ozzie, who gets Gates' old title of chief software architect. Gates remains company chairman.
June 27, 2008
iPhone 3G means more profit for Apple, says iSuppliNEW YORK - Apple's latest iPhone will be more profitable than any other product in its popular iPod line of music players, despite a price tag that is half of the previous iPhone, according to a study.
Helped by lower component costs, margins for the new iPhone are expected to exceed the 50 per cent level achieved by Apple's most popular media players, according to a preliminary study by research firm iSuppli.
June 27, 2008
Napster shareholders revolt over iTunes failureNEW YORK - Three shareholders of digital music service Napster are seeking election to the board, saying current management had not been aggressive enough in battling rival Apple and internet piracy.
Perry Rod, Thomas Sailors and Kavan Singh are preparing an independent proxy after their May 21 application to Napster's board for nomination was rejected on June 13, according to a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
June 27, 2008
Hypergeek turns hardcore cage fighterMany people who have just completed a PhD in theoretical computer science might be content with settling down to a life working at a top IT firm or high academia.
But not Dr Rosi Sexton MMA - she prefers to work in a cage.
June 27, 2008
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