Well, Telecom increased speeds and reduuced prices on a number of plans from the 1st of April. Surfing the net seems quicker, but as a web designer, the upload speed is still the same 128kbps and can take ages to FTP or upload a site onto the net. The powers that be are trying to […]
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As predicted, WIMAX looks to be a serious challenger to the current national carrier. The latest reports are about regional companies trialling the WIMAX technology joining forces to cerate a nationwide WIMAX network. If they can all agree on interconnect agreements, then this could be a major step in the right direction. Meanwhile, Telecom has
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The new version of WordPress has been released. This blog runs 1.5.2 and has been great! But there are some nice features to be added to v2.0 including: completely new administration interface a persistent cache new user role system WYSIWYG Editor I\’ll upgrade to version 2.0 over the next week or so as workload allows.
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Hello to you all in 2006, What will the new year bring us in the world of the internet? Will Telecom be reigned in by the NZ Commerce Commission? I think there will be some action, but I also think there will be challenges by Telecom to any significant rulings against them to prolong any
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Telecom lost it\’s second commerce commission ruling today onthe back of it\’s last one a wek ago. Suddenly Telecom is being told by those with the power that they are indeed a monopoly and that they are indeed hurting competition in New Zealand This weeks battle was about the maximum speed provided to resellers of
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How can Google afford to give away a tool previously worth heaps to buy? Because they are worth Billions and this is a great way to get inside the sites they have been indexing. I am lucky enough to have signed up before it all fell over and they stopped new signups. Yay! And after
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Hi there, Last time I mentioned ZoomIn as a really cool map system launched in NZ. Well our local AA have done something similar using a competitors product called GEOsmart. AAMaps allows you to search around New Zealand and has some great features where you can overlay locations of ATM\’s , banks, places to eat
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I had the oddest thing happen last week, I had a real CV turn up from the UK. Not an emailed one that ususally end up in my in tray, but a real, hard copy, made of tree live CV. In this day and age, it really appealed to me, made me remember this person.
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I have just changed to Firefox as my main browser. I still need IE and Opera + others to test against, but Firefox is fun to use with all of the extras you can add. From GMail notifications to real time football scores from Europe. I have downloaded the Release Candidate 1 , and all
Last night, Telecom reduced it\’s broadband rate by $10 a month. We were paying $69.95 for a 2mb plan with 10gb traffic limit. So this is great news! At last the advent of competition is returning some reward. Telecom is in the news all over the place about it\’s monopoly of the Telecoms arena in
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