Papers inadvertently released today tell the complex and inefficient story behind ICT-NZ the government set up industry group tasked to further the aims of the ICT industry here in New Zealand. ICT-NZ is funded via a complex chain of…
Seth Finklestein (what a great name) editorialised about the government’s encroachment into personal space viz a vis using IP information gathered from internet companies to track individuals performing activities not in keeping with said government’s wishes. Seth concludes with…
In an interesting reverse twist to Moore’s Law, articles have recently bought to our attention the potential speed degradation of the internet after 2010. Articles here and here discuss this issue in depth. The unreasonable men posted here about…
With a hat tip to Zoli for beating me to this post (I put it down to timezone vagaries!) check out this link which hypothesises as to what Gmail would look like if it was “designed” by Microsoft. The…
So Telecom New Zealand was forced to unbundle the local loop – without getting into that argument it was arguably a good thing to encourage investment by other telco players. Those same telco players are now bemoaning the fact…
I’m a social computing evangelist, I’ve also been known to bang my head against brick walls in an effort to explain the “point” of social computing to corporates. Over at Smoothspan, Bob posted this excellent post looking at CxO’s…
In business, sticking to one’s knitting s generally a good plan. For a SaaS business, the knitting is, arguably, the development of a robust SaaS application with all the intricacies that involves. For some SaaS businesses what their knitting…
With a hat tip to Rod. The rumour mill is saying that Apple will soon be shipping a SSD equipped MacBook. Ryan over at endgadget did the ultimate geek hack and put an SSD out of his toshiba in…
Google apps gets lots of press time but Zoho has database and application development options to go with its office productivity suite. Zoho creator is here. To really get traction for SaaS delivered office productivity, there can be no…