I’ve had a little bit to do with a few of the Fronde blog rats (not rats in a derogatory term – one of endearment only!) Their recently departed CEO, Jim Donovan, is a blogger of high regard (check…
News that Apple has revisited its distribution model in New Zealand and has pulled the exclusivity that Renaissance group has/had for Apple products. Two issues to discuss here – Lance has already posted congratulating Apple’s move saying that; …I…
I’ve always said that EBay could do even more business if they ditched listing fees and derived most of their revenue from add-ons and success fees. In New Zealand, the largest online auction business, TradeMe, accounts for over a…
I’ve just come across 24sevenoffice, a European based SaaS product for SMEs. 24sevenoffice seems to have unprecedented breadth of functionality. It includes; Accounting CRM (Contacts, Lead Mgt, SFA) Web conferencing functionality (via Webex) ERP (Supply Chain, Orders, Products, Inventory)…
I’m not going to comments at length on this one but… here we go again… Humanware, until very recently held up as the quintessential New Zealand hi tech success story, is shutting up shop in New Zealand and relocating…
A friend sent me a link to this site which headlines an animated movie looking at our collective mass consumerism model. While a diatribe against consumption is somewhat outside of the usual subject matter of this blog, and arguably…
But the reality is (as is often the case) different. Seems a school cop in Florida set up a MySpace page in order to “connect” more with the kids within the school where he worked. As is the norm…
Wired posted about the design concepts for Firefox’s mobile browser that they’ve seen. Firefox is my browser of choice and seeing it go mobile would be another great step down the road of seeing content whenever you like –…
And I’m not referring to the share price turbulence of recent days. Check out some products from Cupertino with, ahem, less than stellar success in the marketplace. Newton anyone?
Thanks to Zoli for pointing this out. Yet another business area has been introduced to the SaaS concept, SmartTurn have created the first Warehouse Management System (and yet another three letter acronym – WMS). WMS seems a fairly logical…