• Gumtree takes on free listing space…

     

    I received an email this morning from Ebay (who has almost no presence in New Zealand due to the massive incumbency of TradeMe) inviting me to use Gumtree, a regionalised free classified site. I went and had a look…

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  • Wow… Give me Google aps anyday

     

    Let’s forget the arguments around ability to collaborate and online accessibility. Instead lets think about what we want from Office Productivity apps – we want to obtain, display and process information. Now, courtesy of ReadWriteWedb’s comment of the day,…

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  • Nearly nearly…

     

    News this morning that Google has rolled out an Ap that syncs Google call with Outlook. I was excited until I read that it only works for one Google calendar – if you’re like me and you run multple…

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  • Unified Communications for dummies

     

    Check out this informative and succinct video. It gives a great introduction and overview of unified communications, an area with big development occurring almost everyday.

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  • Internet explorer 8 released..

     

    News this morning that IE8 has been released to the general public. I’ve always used Firefox but thought Id give IE8 a test drive. Very initial feedback is showing that it’s pretty fast – Xero tended to be a…

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  • Help Telecom build better products…

     

    Over on the Silicon Welly blog, Tim Norton from PlanHQ is asking for Wellington based volunteers to give some feedback on some new products and services due to be rolled out over the coming year. This is one of…

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  • The future of transportation…

     

    This is cool. Project Better Place is partnering with the Israeli Government, Renualt and Nissan to roll out what is in effect subscription based transportation throughout Israel. The plan by Project Better Place to bring EVs to the masses…

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  • Excellent podcast about SaaS for enterprise..

     

    Krissi Danielsson over on eBizQ interviewes Rene Bonvanie, a senior vice president with Serena, about the company’s internal SaaS use and why SaaS is as good for the enterprise as it is for SMBs. Click here to download the…

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  • NZ Institute releases climate change report…

     

    Hot of the press is this report released today by the New Zealand Institute looking at climate change and specifically New Zealand’s response to it. The title, “Actions Speak Louder Than Words”, is very apt, the report is saying…

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  • MS CFO mentions SaaS, not S+S

     

    ZDNet reports that Microsoft CFO (New Zealander!) Chris Liddell said Yahoo, assuming it is acquired by the software giant, will play a big software as a service role in the combined company.Liddell, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference,…

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