No one knows if \”Persian Kiwi\” or PK has any connections to New Zealand, however, it has definitely captured the attention of some media in New Zealand. What it doe though is highlight how Twitter has become a key issue in Iran. With the Iranian Government stopping the access to social networking sites like Twitter […]
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With the launch of Bing and some of the responses by Google, Collecta is a new small player, that could actually be a forerunner for Real Time Search. Using Google, Yahoo or Bing, finding social content has been difficult. Twitter, Facebook and other social sites have not been well indexed. People often use Twitter for
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Reading Stuff today, I came across an article that talks about how posting comments claiming that a person is guilty of murder (in this case David Bain) can get the poster in trouble. I know that there are some really blurry lines when it comes to what you can and can\’t do online. Most people
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New Zealand\’s own Sidhe Interactive and their new game Shatter is up for an award after unwittingly keeping one of the 1Up.com journalists on the game for a half hour, after only intending to have a go for 5 minutes. To me it looks like a super suped up version of Arkanoid, some levels played
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Well Bing is here. What is Bing? Well it is the new Microsoft search engine. Technically replacing Live as their search engine. There have been plenty of blogs and articles today about the premature launch (it was supposed to launch on the 3rd of June), but came out a little early. To the point where
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I have just started receiving a new wave of scam emails, these look like phishing ones (where the perpetrators try to mimic a reputable website, to encourage the public to enter personal details etc ), but the twist is that they are now changing from fear related (ie for your security, or there was a
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This give attackers access to everything the host user has access to. So this is obviously worse for someone with administrator privileges. Microsoft has deemed the problem as critical, the top rating on their security scale. Symantec\’s virus hunters have dubbed the virus Trojan.PPDropper.B, while other antivirus makers are likely dissecting it as well. It
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We are in uncertain times, but taking a bold lead in the upgrading of the countries Broadband infrastructure would be the right move. With the Government already pledging 1.5bn to help trigger private investment in the nations fibre network, they obviously see the potential and necessity in upgrading our current creaking offering. Vodafone seem to
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I don\’t normally plug other sites, but this one looks like a good one for businesses in NZ – www.madefromnewzealand.com My biggest like is the tone it seems to have of a great place to be; lots going on, plenty of information on businesses, people and events. The other cool aspect is the social side
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Good news for NZ businesses, Google is now including New Zealand in it\’s revamped Keyword Tool. The tool can be found here: http://www.google.com/sktool On the Official Adwords blog, Google says: we\’re happy to announce that the tool is now available in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, and New Zealand. So this gives a much better picture
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