<UPDATE – I’ve created a page on the tab above – if you send me information then I’ll add to the HALL OF SHAME> Microsoft’s new ie6 countdown site records ie6 usage of just 3.1% in New Zealand. The overall number is now small enough for almost all local sites to ignore. I’m guessing that …
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The rise and rise of mobile broadband
This table is from the Cisco Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast The table shows that each iPhone or Android device uses as much data as 4 ordinary smartphones, and each iPad or tablet uses 5 ordinary smartphones worth of data. But mobile connected laptops are the biggest consumers, and that will only get worse as …
Better by Design CEO Summit videos
The videos from the 2010 BBD CEO summit are up. The conference was superb and I do recommend viewing these edited videos. Rob Fyfe: Air NZ’s journey. Strong mesage and well delivered Ingrid Fetell – Human Factors – IDEO. How end user observation leads to great design Adam Lowry from Method – how to deliver …
Dell’s descent into usability hell
Is the Original Dell.com homepage better or worse than the current one? The original page let you go directly to what you wanted – be it to buy a particular type of computer, get service or check your order. It was ugly but so simple. The current site is a brick wall. I suppose the …
The hot weather in Greece
I switched a long time ago from watching TV for the weather to using the internet or more recently mobile apps. Perhaps that was a mistake – it seems that in Greece at least the TV weather forecast is compelling. It’s all on YouTube. I could stand about 2 minutes – your employer may stand …
Focusing on the long term
The NBR rustled up just four analysts who gave opinions on Telecom’s latest results. Here’s what they had to say: Guy Hallwright, Forsyth Barr: ACCUMULATE Geoff Zame, Deutsche Bank: HOLD Greg Main, Credit Suisse: UNDERPERFORM Tristan Joll, Goldman Sachs: SELL Four analysts, all with different opinions. That’s better than the reverse, as we know that …
Don’t let your Apple iOS developer license expire
One email, no reminder and BOOM. All of our 139 Lingopal applications have been removed from all of the global iTunes stores. Apple is a cruel master – and we’ve been offline for a five days now trying to sort this out. The latest is that it will take yet another 48 hours to sort …
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Air New Zealand phone hijack is a rort
Air New Zealand is testing something which I view with grave concern. They are testing a system that hijacks cell phones on their flights, and charging extortionate data rates along the way. The proposal is to place a mini cell-site inside the aircraft, and have it connect to satellite. Any calls or data traffic made …
It’s all in the eights
Apple store in Singapore, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. The Apple store in Singapore shows one difference between there and here – the prices end in the digit ‘8’. Eight is an auspicious number, and so I guess the SG$2888 MacBook Pro is looking particularly good. Sadly in the NZ store our prices end in ‘9’s. …
The Daily don’t
It’s new, it’s news but it isn’t anything new. The Daily has certainly created a media fuss, but the experience itself is less than perfect, and I struggle to believe it will succeed as a subscription model. The Daily is long on sports and entertainment, and short of hard news. The issue I read had …
What’s the important news Stuff?
Stuff.co.nz – Feb 2, 2011, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m disappointed in the ordering of the headlines when I went to Stuff this morning. I have no idea who the person is who has has had a third child. However the news from Egypt is surely one of the news stories of the year, and …
Saving Working Group report is unreadable
I mean that I cannot read it – as the all of the PDF produced text that looks like the above. I hope this gets fixed, as I believe that whatever they are saying is important.
Fix the basics NBR.co.nz
The NBR’s website went through an upgrade just before the end of last year. It wasn’t smooth sailing for them, but the timing, when everyone was away at the beach, was smart. However the site is still in a bit of a state of disrepair. Firstly – the news seems to have scrolled way down …
The Groupy promotion impact
A Neil over at Webdrive sent through this chart showing the impact of Wednesday’s Groupy $1 Hell pizza promotion with advertising over on Stuff. This is showing the amount of traffic coming in and going out, which approached 60 Mbits/sec inbound as the news spread. Our page impressions stats show a similar result. Sorry I …
Photo opportunity
A photo from last year’s visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. US submarine cable vendor TE Subcom invited Pacific Fibre along to an American Chamber of Commerce event in Christchurch, and Pacific Fibre CEO Mark Rushworth and I went along. Thanks for that. Our time with Secretary Clinton was necessarily very short – a …
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