Perhaps available only in French, but it seems iPhones will have to be sold in unlocked form in France, to comply with an excellent French law. Unlocked: tick 3G: not yet. Still time to kill until next year then.
Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
Xero offline is coming. Later.
Buried (ok not really buried, but towards the end) in a post by Rod Drury -is a hint that perhaps Xero will be available offline next year: Next year we’ll see the introduction of off-line functionality inside the standard browsers, so new scenarios start to open up. ….These clients will access the server based logic …
Green luxury flying
So Singapore airlines is going to have 14 first class suites, and an enhanced business class (also on their 777’s) on their A380 which will be plying the Sydney to Singapore route. That’s cool, and perhaps the quietness of the plane may tempt some of the corporate jet crowd back to commercial. Luxury cabins, however, …
Where I’m working in Perth: KNR
Wondering where I am working in Perth? here is a site overview KNR GM Brett Swayn gave to analysts last month. The ‘Go for Green’ effort is referred to in the pack. The pack uses publicly available information, so is a bit scarce on details, but it’s the best I can share. Notice the focus …
Leopard is coming on the 26th
From the Apple.com homepage. If you were thinking about upgrading your operating system from, say, XP, now is the hour.
Yale earns 28% return on endowment
Another stellar year for the Yale University endowment – a 28% return, following the previous year’s 22.9% return. That means the endowment will cover 37% of Yale’s net revenues next this year. Imagine that – Yale is on the path for the endowment one day to be able to cover all the costs for the …
Nobel Prize for Auction efficiency
Trae Me and eBay customers can breath easy – the Nobel prize wining trio of Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson are fans of auctions as the most efficient way to clear a market when information is not freely available to all. (Actually – their work helps to understand which auction mechanism is best in which situation.) …
NZInstitute BB report: Digital media benefits are underestimated
Continuing a series of comments on the excellent NZ Institute Broadband report, we turn to page 8: Digital media. NZ Institute estimate $800m in extra benefits, with the tree showing $680m to $1.03bn. Here’s the top half: Let’s look the right hand sides. Current cost base = $2.1 billion. The source for this is unclear, …
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3 reasons why old media is not doomed
A couple opf folk sent me a link to a post on Louis Gray’s blog, link, which shows the relative decline in Alexa ranking of the news websites. Sites that used to be among the top visited sites in all the Web have plummeted, as fickle Web visitors have turned their attention away from the …
Trade Me: one million served
I missed the first time, but it seems Trade Me exceeded 1 miilion listings yesterday, October 13th, according to the TM message board. Right now the site is running at just under 1m, but expect it to steadily grow. Amazing. Meanwhile eBay Australia has just over 1m items for sale located in Australia. Remember that …
10 ways NZ Government can help NZX
There are more tales of companies leaving the NZX, and the question is asked (via a workshop) whether the Government could step in. I really fail to see what more this Government would materially do to solve for a market that is simply too small. Not that there aren’t any possibilities, just that most would …
Why did xtra go Yahoo! and not MSN?
Mauricio wonders why xtra!Yahoo? I guess one might never know the full story on why Telecom New Zealand decided to terminate the partnership between its Xtra ISP and Microsoft’s MSN content provider here in New Zealand, instead running into the open arms of Yahoo7. I guess not – but MSN’s current offering – msn.co.nz – …
Bernard Hickey steps down
Bernard Hickey is resigning from the end of December as Head of Fairfax Digital NZ to spend time with his family. It’s no doubt been a really tough decision to have to make, but the right one for his family. Hopefully you’ll find time to keep blogging Bernard.
Randy Pausch’s last lecture
If you have not seen this, then make sure you do. It’s the last lecture by CM Prof. Randy Pausch, and it is amazing. youtube version (first of several – the speaker below is introducing)
News Corp to go carbon neutral by 2010
Rupert Murdoch, via Samefacts Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can’t afford the risk of inaction… Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010… Our strategy everywhere is the same: first, reduce our use of energy as …
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