It may not actually be an iPhone, but Telecom is inviting comparison between its latest handset, the Okta Touch, and the much-hyped Apple handset. We don’t have to see the Okta to know the answer to this one. I watched the video. TVNZ interviews David Gray (Grey?) Telecom’s Head of Consumer Marketing, which is just …
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Things are booming in New Zealand – and we have 3.4% unemployment forecast for the September quarter by Westpac, a strong Kiwi dollar and low inflation. I have not seen signs this good in my lifetime. I do worry about US housing and sub prime happenings, froth in the US equity markets and froth in …
The headlines, it’s all about the headlines: Balkans have the world’s best bums (+video)
Stuff finally has more domestic browsers than NZHerald – it’s been a long chase, and kudos to the editorial and development teams at Fairfax for the result. Both sites are winners here however – the number of people reading their news online has steadily risen over the years, and the competition has made for better …
Part of the blame for the underinvestment by Telecom, and under0-reaction by the NZ Government has to go on the National Party’s Maurice Williamson: A rare written question from National Party communications spokesman Maurice Williamson to Communications Minister David Cunliffe in May… …asked Mr Cunliffe how New Zealand’s {broadband} ranking compared with its position in …
Via Micropersuasion: The endless dot-com parties are back. So are the countless trade shows/conferences that regurgitate the same “new paradigms” the last 10 events did – with no end in sight. And yes, the ridiculous BS press releases are flying into my Gmail box. This is why I don’t speak at or attend very many …
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Scoopit seems to have stalled a little while back, and is now taken over by a combination of spammers and people that are bearish about housing markets. It needs some more moderation love, which is hard to justify on what is most likely low traffic numbers. What to do? The readers are worried…
Metromix is a series of local sites based around newspapers – run by US newspaper/TV outfit Gannett, who publish 90 newspapers, including USA Today. Gannett is worth just under $14 billion, including debt, Tribune about a billion less. Tribune owns a few dailies – including the LA Times. So why is this interesting? Well Gannett, …
A great story – and even more amazing is this story on the Red Sox pitcher that bought them home: Don’t feel sorry for yourself, don’t sit at home and think about it,” Lester said of his months of chemo and doubt last winter. “This year, I’ve tried to just have fun, treat it like …
Interesting snipet from Slashdot (home of the Mcrosoft vs Apple vs *nix wars) Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. “[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month. I …
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Well my cunning plan of having Leopard sent to me failed – it didn’t show up in time before the goods inward at work closed on Friday, and so I went out and purchased another copy at 6:20pm on that night. All is not lost – my parents will now be the proud owners of …
It’s great news. Score plus one for Paul Reynolds, who is making all the right moves as he embarks on the Telecom turnaround. I’m running on the promised ADSL2+ here in Perth, and it is fast enough for most purposes, with an upgrade path to 20 MB per second ahead for TCNZ. Sadly – that …
The US State Department (foreign service) is enforcing postings in Iraq – there is no turning them down it seems, else you lose your job. That’s scary for 250 or so people who will be informed on Monday, and have just 10 days to reply. The only excuses allowed are medical it seems. I know …
Can the RedSox actually win another ‘World’ Series championship? The Red Sox had a 1918 to 2004 losing streak that makes the All Blacks woes seem trivial. Intriguingly and cleverly this season the Red Sox bought (for over $100m) on board a star Japanese pitcher – Matsuzaka. Matsuzaka added to the fortunes of the team …
A great post by Krugman, on his blog. This picture from Schiller tells pretty much everything you need to know to decide whether or not there is a US housing bubble. There is a bunch more on his blog – and if you get it then you’ll know why I am short EQR (Equity Residential) …
