It may seem surprising, but it seems a few Xtra Mail customers are unsure of what to do, now they have been stung with the transition. Perhaps Telecom will spring for some cash, but I’d not be surprised if many xtra!mail customers want to leave, but do not know where to go. Surprising because you’d …
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Evergreen: Why Telecom is a poor company
That Telecom Strategy post below isn’t just some mindless rant. (well no more than normal) The Evergreen Project, which I led for a while at McKinsey (and which turned into a book) may give some context for those comments. The Evergreen work was an enormous quantitative and qualitative effort, which took millions of dollars and …
Telecom’s Strategy is too advanced for its ability
From NZHerald.com Telecom will seek a new chief financial officer with experience in mergers and acquisition so it can take advantage of consolidation in the telecommunications market, says chairman Wayne Boyd. People at Telecom: Please do us all a favour. FOCUS ON THE CORE BUSINESS! Once you get that right, then worry about other opportunities. …
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Fairfax fires star blogger – the dark implications
A Star Blogger is fired by Fairfax… no not me….(I’m still doing a little work for Fairfax) (oh yeah – and am not a star)…. …or Juha, who has recently moved is job, and blog, (where he is a star) to Fairfax NZ. (Welcome aboard!) No – Fairfax Australia, clearly a corporation run by foreigners*, …
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Chrome Pages. Whatever that is.
Welly start-up Chrome Pages got some publicity today. CP Guys – I’m glad you have the gumption to get this going, but I am really sorry – I’m going to have to be pretty negative here. There is a somewhat lame and soundless you tube video showing the product. I cannot for the life of …
xtra mail to Yahoo! mail change over sucks.
How predictable. Telecom shoots itself in the fot again and again. Shame I didn’t actually predict that the Yahoo!xtra to Yahoo! Mail changeover itself would be screwed up. Situation: Telecom internet customers are furious after being left without email over the weekend during a major upgrade of the service. Reasons: Change over communications sucked The …
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Ten things you can do in today’s Bear Market
So for the bulls turning into bears – what should you do? 1: Do not sit around. When markets turn sour then people tend to switch off, as it is not nearly as much fun watchng your net worth go down each day as it was to watch it go up. Act now and you …
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Ready for the plunge?
It’s amusing being a bear in a bear (down) market. Of course I’m usually a bear in a Bull (up) market, so it’s great to be backing the winning team for once. This chart in Saturday’s AFR hearkens back to 1987, a year I remember too well. NZ got hit particularly badly because of some …
NZ’s regressive tax system
It’s strange. I always thought that New Zealand has a pretty progressive tax system – that the richer people get taxed more than the poorer, and that we have a share the spoils system that helps make NZ a great egalitarian society.. Meanwhile the USA is meant to be a dog eat dog place run …
A big well done to the folk at RBNZ
The economists and traders at the Reserve Bank of NZ must be feeling pretty smug right now. They intervened in the currency market on June 11 – selling a huge amount of NZD at between 76.2 and 75 US cents. The RBNZ has access to at least $7bn to make market interventions, and can intervene …
$850 for a new Apple mac….
Dick Smith is selling Mac Minis for $848. That’s an Intel mac (or make it a PC is you must), 1.83GHz core duo etc. They also have iMacs (the old ones) from $1600. I’d be buying as the new wave of macs is going to be imported at the new ‘improved’ exchange rate….. No excuses …
Those sneaky thieves – the dangerous firefox cult
Apparently using Firefox is theft. Or at least using Ad Block Plus with Firefox is theft, so says Whyfirefoxisblocked.com. (Please tell me this isn a fake site) Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of web site owners and developers…. … Accessing the content while blocking the ads, therefore would be …
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negative equity
Front page of today’s Wall Street Journal: One Family’s Journey into a Subprime Trap FULLERTON, Calif. — Nearly two years ago, Mario and Leticia Montes found a home they loved, a gray stucco bungalow with a hot tub in the backyard in a middle-class neighborhood of Orange County. …With a December “reset” on their loan …
Google Office and xtraYahoo! Bubble
Google is adding Star Office to the Google pack, available now. Google Pack is quite a collection that includes Google Earth, Norton Security Scan, Google Desktop, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Adobe Reader, Skype, RealPlayer and other Google products Sadly the Google Pack is for XP, not the mac, but you can still get a …
Journalism matters
A good summary of events over at norightturn, along with the output and links to other coverage. Quotes from Simon Collins speech to Journalism Matters The Herald now has a total of 28 general reporters including branch offices and Parliament …At the Herald, there are now no reporters covering what should be major rounds such …
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