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In 2006, I was lucky enough to get in on an analyst briefing at IBM's Alamaden Research Centre, near San Jose.It was a memorable day. The place itself -- a monumental California modernist building on ...
It's nice to see Bill Ralston back in the workforce, although I wonder when his respective editors at The Listener and the Herald on Sunday realised he'd be starting new columns for each of them on ...
There were warnings last year, including here in this blog, that a nasty surprise was developing in the process of merging council IT systems for the new Auckland super city; that long-term costs were ...
All right, this is getting ridiculous. It's been a beautiful day in Auckland. I rode from the Chev to La Cigale in Parnell, then back via Quay Street, and out along Queen's Wharf, to inspect the damn ...
It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...
"In just seven years' time, they'll have enough money to buy every share in every public company in New Zealand. Soon, they could buy all the farms. Indeed, one day the government could wind up owning ...
Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...
How would you feel as a consumer if you were made to pay the decreed price of a commercial monopoly supplier and were deprived by the same government of any conventional means of challenging that ...
When friends of mine were first messing around with bulletin boards back in the early nineties, they used to say that when commenting dropped off, all you needed to do was Drop the A-bomb. Mention ...
We have quite a show for you on Media7 this week. We're looking at climate change and the media, and I'll be speaking to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister's chief science advisor, a few ...