A couple of posts in the last day or two got me thinking of some added value for SaaS. Over at the unreasonablemen they discuss the differences between ASPs of old and SaaS of today – the premise being…
Troy Wing is a fellow Kiwi who seems to be going great guns in the stateside IT industry – it’s nice to have such role models to aspire to. In an excellent post today, Troy made some comparisons about…
So – unsurprisingly Facebook did a partial turnaround on its privacy policy for Beacon, deciding that consent would be required before users activity data was published. Posts have claimed that this is the “canary in the coalmine” event for…
Now there’s a title to fire up my more left leaning readers…… Deborah Hill-Cone wrote this morning on the new legislation in New Zealand that is designed to coerce employers into offering flexible employment arrangements. Deborah says; The flexible…
It’s always pretty cool to hear of Kiwis doing good things (other than Andy Lark who we hear about all the time :-)). Troy Wing is a Kiwi, CTO for Forcelogix and a blogger to boot. In his post…
A few years ago there were dissenting voices about the Microsoft anti-trust case, a good number of the voices will be incredulous with the news today that antitrust regulators, seeking further controls on Microsoft’s activities, dismissed Google, Firefox, Ajax…
Sometimes it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, or the wood from the trees, or something. TelstraClear yesterday called for further regulation of Telecom’s local loop unbundling. TelstraClear are calling for LLU to not only include the…
Sitting at breakfast this morning, my wife an I were discussing Facebook and email. My wife is a bit of a late technology adopter, not being really “into it” the way I am. She takes a while to get…
An excellent opinion piece here by Chris Bell on the power of word of mouth. It seems there is a conflict in society at the momeent. Companies spend more and more money on marketing in order to sway consumers…
Telecom just completed an upgrade of the CDMA network to increase data speeds, Vodafone have just announced an HSDPA upgrade that will give 2-5mbps download speeds. This raises two questions; Why is everyone moaning about wired broadband when mobile…