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In defense of the Facebook Generation
I have recently bought the world’s greatest mobile phone: the HTC One. I write that with minimal hyperbole, many technology websites including TechRadar have named it The Greatest Phone available right...
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10 Best Things To Tell “Computer Support”
The Computer Support Scam has been around for a while now – here in NZ it comes and goes in waves, but at my place, we’ve had a couple calls in the last few weeks so it looks like we’re back on their...
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Here is the future of online news
Warren Ellis, the one who writes comics and stuff not the one who is a musician, linked today to this Fast Company feature on the new way it is handling news content. Ellis has a well-deserved...
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Why I love and hate Twitter (though it’s more about hate)
I admit, I was a little slow getting to Twitter. I’m no innovator, nor an early adopter. I looked at Twitter and saw another vehicle for narcissists to tell us all dreary details of their mundane...
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Has Apple lost it?
There are countless stories about the insane brutality Steve Jobs would inflict on the company he started as a young adult – my favourites include Steve telling a lead Xerox designer that “Everything...
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The Last of Us (p)review
I had the chance to have a 30 minute play through of the soon-to-be-blockbuster title The Last of Us for Playstation 3 ahead of its world-wide release and I was blown away. The title is a PS3 exclusive...
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All you wanted to know about PRISM but were afraid to ask because someone...
YES WE CAN spy on your shit UPDATE 11 June 2013 2pm: Since the publishing of this post Edward Snowden, the PRISM whistleblower has been reported “missing” in Hong Kong by the BBC. - – - Much has been...
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The Console Wars – Sony’s Three Hit Combo That Just Knocked Out Xbox
I played Paper Boy on this machine, and I was happy. You bloody kids with your X-Stations. A big fat South African taking on a fresh-faced 21 year old wasn’t the only showdown this week. At a little...
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It’s my privacy and I’ll cry if I want to
The status quo: We’ve heard a lot in the news lately about spying. Edward Snowden is a name that will be familiar to a lot of people. He’s the former NSA contractor who “leaked” a heap of documents...
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Shaming: it’s a bit crap for everyone
It’s no surprise to anyone that Twitter and Facebook are filled with vile, racist, homophobic, bigoted awfulness. Because humanity is filled with vile, racist, homophobic bigots. You’ll see in the...
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Pulp Friction
I suspect it was actually the novelisation of a Benji film. The very first book I ever read was about a little dog that got lost and had an adventure. At one stage it befriended a raccoon and learned...
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GCSB redux
John Campbell didn’t distinguish himself last week when he finally got the chance to interview the Prime Minister about the GCSB Bill. It’s a common situation in modern life: you become interested in...
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Bring it back: Technology
I was born in 1979, during the decline of technology. I’m not saying today’s technology is dead, but it bores me to tears. Every time Apple calls a meeting with the press, I pray a hologram of Steve...
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Sexy times at CES
The largest nerd fest in the world, the Consumer Electronics Expo has wrapped in Vegas for 2014 and Tim Batt has chosen four key popular tech areas and the stand out product/service from each category...
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The terrible, terrible future of consumer tech
We, the consumer class, are about to enter the most self-absorbed period yet. Which is really saying something considering the late 1990s era of reality TV where ‘everyone can to be famous and should...
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Online bullying: won’t somebody think of the children?
Get your pitchforks, light up those torches and pack your bags kids cause apparently there’s a bandwagon to jump on and it’s called Condemning Online Bullying. TVNZ’s video montage today of hosts and...
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A custodial investor: Rod and me
Rod Drury is an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur is a funny old word. It gets bandied around a lot. “Oh if only New Zealand had more…entrepreneurs”. I’m not even sure what it really means. Rod is though. I...
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Think Before You Click or: Why I Haven’t Seen JLaw’s Boobs
These are not the nudes you were looking for The internet has exploded in the last 72 hours because naked photos and videos of over 100 people, several of them high profile Hollywood actresses and...
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Uber the review
By Steve W August 28th was the official launch day for Uber in Wellington. For those who aren’t aware of what Uber is, it’s billed as “Everone’s Private Driver”. It’s a taxi service of sorts, but as...
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Cyberbullying: by Loren Heaphy
The Ruminator’s Loren Heaphy (LOZ!) is a finalist in the Westpac Millennial Women of Influence competition. And we think she deserves it. Because she’s both a millennial AND influential (and secretly...
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