I got this emailed to me the other day, what a cool game. It is so simple in its application, but so addictive. Have a go it is great, I was warned about the music, but it is cool too. http://www.addictinggames.com/magicpen.html
The best game of All Time? It is so cool… Magic Pen Read More »
New Zealand is the second most hacked country per head of population across US, UK, Russia and the Asia Pacific countries, a new report says. The TippingPoint Cyberhack report said there have been 5849 successful hacks in 2008 so far against websites with .nz addresses, or one for every 730 people. This puts the country
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Well done to Patrick and co at StartUP, a new website / blog / news aggregator focussing on new business online. http://www.start-up.co.nz/ Blogs, videos, articles and a directory of sites related to the topic are all found out here. There is a wealth of information on the site to keep you reading for ages. Also
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New Zealand has climbed one place to 19th in the latest OECD broadband, or high-speed internet, rankings. Fairfax Media The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development\’s broadband statistics report, for the six months to December, shows New Zealand 19th out of 30 countries. That is up from 20th in the previous OECD half-year report. The
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I am a late bloomer in regards to Top Gear. I now love it and if I have some time to kill, go to Youtube and find some of the snippets I haven\’t seen. This has been a bit hit and miss as the search for Top Gear gives plenty of videos to view, some
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When a 17 year old designs a version of GTA for NZ, he gets a bit of stick for putting New Zealand Police insignia on the police officers in the game. From a position of skill and expertise, this guy needs some congratulations. He has taken it on himself to provide a more local feel
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Search Engine Market Share in NZ Well I thought Google was dominant, but the latest Hitwise figures show how dominant Google is in New Zealand. I have quoted figures of around 60% market share for Google based on figure seen historically and overseas things are more like 45%, but the most recent Hitwise statistics show
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With a myriad of search providers currently out in the webosphere, the news of Microsoft making a 51 Billion Dollar offer for Yahoo has some interesting ramifications. Obviously it creates two large competitors to duke it out over the major market share of the search space. I am not sure if people realise the effect
Microsoft Buying Yahoo would iron out some kinks… Read More »
Jade Software Corporation Limited, the Christchurch based software developer has been special for quite some time. It has now announced a successful implementation of a server based architecture to replace a mainframe one. This is significant if large capital costs related to mainframe architecture can be reduced by using more easily available and obviously cheaper
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And I mean real Broadband too. There are many stories in the NZ news relating to uptake in broadband, a year on from the Telecoms Amendment Act and other Broadband related stories. My concern is that Telecoms stated ambition for a minimum 10mb/s connection will not move us forward enough. I am not sure if
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