Last week was a bit of a daze spent uploading years and years of email history to Gmail now that IMAP has been enabled. After a few days playing I have to report that IMAP has some pros and…
Well quiet in terms of bogging anyway – just coming down from the Crowded House/Supergroove concert on Friday night – it’s about 15 years since I last saw Crowded House and they were fantastic. In other news the HiTech…
An excellent interview over on ZDNet with JP Rangaswami, managing director of BT Design. He used to be the CIO but disestablished that title to better reflect the roles people play at the global Telco. Some interesting quotes; “at…
This is kind f cool – kind of the desktop version of OLPC (kind of not actually!). Walmart has started selling this sub USD200 desktop jam-packed with google apps and FOSS stuff. It comes prelaoded with; Linux OS Gmail…
Google is announcing its OpenSocial project. OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: Profile Information (user data) Friends Information…
Tonight I’m attending the Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 Award ceremony. The Fast 50 recognises the 50 fastest growing businesses in New Zealand and is an expression of the fact that Hi-growth is the way ahead for New Zealand. I’l report…
Introduction – OLPC aims to create a USD100 rugged laptop for use in developing nations. To get a laptop that cheap it has to take advantage of free and open source software. OLPC have Microsoft developing a very cut…
Mega company (by New Zealand standards anyway) Fonterra has just announced that it will be outsourcing some IT functions to India. Fonterra’s outsourcing strategy is aimed at reducing duplication of backroom support functions such as human resources, information services…
News just in, US company Diligent that provides a SaaS product for board members to access meeting papers will list on the NZ stock exchange. Diligent already has a division in Christchurch and is looking to leverage the increased…