Monthly Archives: July 2010

We love Flowerpower, do you like?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

We at Powerkiwi love our Flowerpower product, and so we have created a Facebook page to have some fun. For now we are trying to build up to a decent number of people who like the page so that we … Continue reading →

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Your tweets cost money

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

Read David MacGregor’s novel: Vanishing Act for free… – davidmacgregor’s posterous, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. A snapshot of Dave MacGregor’s blog entry giving away free copies of his book shows interesting implications. Almost everyone choses not to tweet the post … Continue reading →

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Back to Vodafone, sorry Telecom

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Another Telecom store experience just now, this time on Queen street. The good news is that they have a SIM cutter that will quickly turn a standard SIM card into a micro-SIM. The bad news is they were reluctant to … Continue reading →

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Is it here or not?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Apple – iPad – The best way to experience the web, email & photos, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Apple’s NZ store is showing the iPad as available – but there is no mechanism to buy. I guess that means it … Continue reading →

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Well done Telecom, you made it easy

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

Telecom’s store also has the mock phones. But they have a nice low use prepay data plan, a friendly guy giving tips on how to cut a mini sim and no form in sight. Nik gave his name and address, … Continue reading →

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Just let me try and buy Vodafone

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

Three different things getting in the way of customers buying at the local Vodafone store. The first is the wall of unusable phones. The mock phones let you check the look of the case, but they don’t let you experience … Continue reading →

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InternetNZ: 5 questions

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

Dave Farrar asked each of the 12 candidates for the 5 InternetNZ councilor spots to answer some questions. I’m one of the candidates, and as they were good questions I’m posting the answers here. What do you consider the (up … Continue reading →

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Reducing roaming costs

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

Column number five for Fairfax is now posted online at Stuff. The columns are printed in the Businessday section of the Waikato Times, Dominion Post and Christchurch Press. Fine papers all. We are working to get them all online in … Continue reading →

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Won’t these scams please go away?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

Another scam today, this time from SMSbargain.net.  I have no idea how I got there but somehow this page opened up in my browser (despite pop-ups being blocked). I’m pretty sure I was not on a New Zealand based site, … Continue reading →

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Well we know where we are going

Posted on July 2, 2010 by

Well we know where we are going But we can’t see which gate it is. I cannot read the destination on the departure gates in Auckland domestic airport until I am quite close to the gate. This is frustrating. So … Continue reading →

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No customers thanks

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

Seen inside the BNZ on lower Queen St, Auckland.

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