I installed Chrome on day one – I’ve always prided myself with being on the bleeding edge and with web browsers it is no different – I had the RCs of Firefox three before they were fully released and…
It was awesome to see what has come from the guy who invented T9 keyboard entry for cell phones. I’ve long been a little dubious of text entry on a mobile device – other than the digital natives who…
I posted a few weeks ago about the battle of words between the organisers of the TechCrunch50 and Demo conference organisers. You’ll recall that there was much bitching between the respective organisers over who stole whose ideas, whose thunder…
While I was away Telecom announced a new host of options for SMEs. Basically it seems that Telecom have identified that SMEs in New Zealand are time-constrained and one of the things that gets overlooked in their busy-ness is…
I was a little surprised when I saw this post by Rodrigo over on the Zoho blog. The title struck me as a little strange coming from someone who works for a business that is pushing the SaaS boundaries…
Corporate users rely more and more on large scale databases – be it for customer information, resource tracking or other business analytics. This all works well for desk bound workers who can pull up a plethora of applications to…
Why is it that doomsayers popup every now and then with a completely negative message and somehow manage to get major press. Harry Debes, CEO of Law Software has publicly declared that the sky will fall on SaaS (Software…
I tend to be pretty damning of start-ups with no real monetisation strategy who give their products away for free with the vague notion of value at some later stage. It’s so painfully hard to change a model post…
I read this amazing post over on ZDNet that details the massive operations out of India providing contract CAPTCHA solving services. It seems the contractors pull down hundreds of thousands of CAPTCHAs automatically from the likes of Craigslist, Gmail,…
Marshall had this interesting post looking at Embargoes and how they affect tech bloggers. Some recent event made me wonder about this. I’ve had a few contacts lately about press release type work. There have been two distinct styles…