I’m a pretty big reader – no TV, an intellectual for a father and a fairly heavy library all add up to a reasonably high “burn rate” when it comes to books. I was pretty stoked to be pointed…
In an on-again off-again tale of woe, Eurekster‘s site is back up again. Last week it was reported that the site was down. It is now back up with a blog post saying that all the “problems” of the…
At the Christchurch Arts centre today I was stopped by a couple of guys driving around on a lime coloured motorised couch (!) They proceeded to give me a sticker and brochure and outline a new website they had…
So Microsoft has announced its “Echoes” project, a unified communications platform for telcos that, via the windows live service, seeks to; Sync Address book contacts over the air Ensure that IM messages work seamlessly with SMS Windows Live Messenger…
I bumped into a couple of the folks from iPayroll last week. iPayroll [Diversity coverage here] is a New Zealand based SaaS payroll service. There has been a fair amount of chatter around the blogosphere around the role of…
The plot thickens – seems an article in the Independent Financial which was apparently critical of Xero’s performance was pulled after complaints from CEO Rod Drury. Hopefully it was pulled for the right reasons (ie factual incorrectness) rather than…
Following on from my previous post about SaaS being disruptive and hence tricky for traditional software players to deal with, news that former chairman of large UK accounting software company Sage looks set to buy all or part of…
ITPro posted this badly titled out article “Software as a service hits a glitch”. In it author Stephen Pritchard confuses SaaS en masse with SaaS delivered by traditional enterprise service vendors. He rightly states that; The problem for SAP…
So I decided that, being a bit of an early adopter, a move to naked DSL with VoIP was in order. I dutifully purchased my PAP2T (to convert VoIP to a standard phone) and filled in my application form…
I write a regular column for Unlimited magazine, one of New Zealand’s most respected publications for the creative business sector. In an attempt to alienate a good proportion of the population my article last month took a well aimed…